Selected cluster proposals

Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program - April 20, 2015
Cluster
Proposal Name
Carbon
Electronics
Carbon Electronics: Materials
Design, Processing, and
Manufacturing for
Environmental, Defense, and
Energy Needs
Emerging Plant
Disease and
Global Food
Security
Emerging Disease Biology and
Global Food Security
No. of
Positions
Proposing Faculty
(Cluster Coordinators - bold)
Colleges/Units
(Lead Dean - bold)
5
Harald Ade, Justin Schwartz, Daniel Dougherty, Kenan Gundogdu,
Felix Castellano, David Shultz, Alex Smirnov, Donald Brenner,
Douglas Irving, Linyou Cao, Michael Dickey, Orlin Velev, Brendan
O’Connor, Mohammed Zikry, Michael Escuti, Michael Kudenov,
Jesse Jur, Ahmed El-Shafei, Xiangwu Zhang, Heike Sederoff
CALS, COE,
COS, COT
4
Jean Ristaino, Rick Davis, Linda Hanley Bowdoin, George Kennedy,
Lee-Ann Jaykus, Ralph Dean, Peter Ojiambo, Ignazio Carbone,
Roger Magarey, Frank Louws, Russ Bulluck, Fred Wright, Dahlia
Nielsen, Ross Meentemeyer, Fred Gould, Ruben Carbonell,
Kathleen Vogel, Alyson Wilson
CALS, COE, CHASS,
CNR, COS
CALS, COD, COE,
CHASS, CNR, COS
CHASS, CNR,
COS, CEd
Global Water,
Sanitation and
Hygiene
Global WaSH (Water,
Sanitation, and Hygiene)
4
Francis de los Reyes, Detlef Knappe, Emily Berglund, Jay Cheng,
Matthew Polizzotto, Deanna Osmond, Laura Taylor, Zack Brown,
Montse Fuentes, Stefano, Kyle Bunds, Elizabeth Nichols, Ryan
Emanuel, Terrie Litzenberger, Robin Abrams
Leadership in
Public Science
Global Leadership in Public
Science
4
Ken Zagacki, Robert Dunn, Andrew R. Binder, Fred Gould, Gail
Jones, Roland Kays, Scott Mills, Nancy Penrose, Walt Robinson,
Kathy Cabe Trundle
4
Michael Hyman, Chase Beisel, Rodolphe Barrangou, Jose BrunoBarcena, John Cavanagh, Mari Chinn, Clay Clark, John Classen,
Marc Cubeta, Owen Duckworth, Terrence Gardner, Michael
Goshe, Fred Gould, Alexandria Graves, Amy Grunden, Paul
Hamilton, Linda Hanley-Bowdoin, Hosni Hassan, Shuijin Hu, Marcé
Lorenzen, Eric Miller, R. Michael Roe, Bob Rose, Coby Schal, Wei
Shi, Chip Simmons, Ross Sozzani, David Tarpy, Deyu Xie, Douglas
Call, Michael Flickinger, Robert Kelly, Detlef Knappe, Francis de los
Reyes, Nagiza Samatova, James Brown, Michael Cowley, Robert
Dunn , Christian Melander, Dahlia Nielsen, Reade Roberts, Derek
Foster, Jody Gookin, Nanette Nascone-Yoder, Sid Thakur, Jeff
Yoder
Microbiomes
and Complex
Microbial
Communities
Microbiomes and Complex
Microbial Communities (MC)2
CALS, COE,
COS, CVM
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Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program - April 20, 2015
Cluster
Proposal Name
No. of
Positions
Proposing Faculty
(Cluster Coordinators - bold)
Colleges/Units
(Lead Dean - bold)
CALS, COE,
COS, CVM
Modeling the
Living Embryo
Quantitative and Computational
Developmental Biology
4
Troy Ghashghaei , Nanette Nascone-Yoder, Ke Cheng, Jorge
Piedrahita, Phillip Sannes, Jeffrey Yoder, Heather Shive, Scott
Bailey, Sharon Lubkin, Mansoor Haider, Alun Lloyd, Robert Anholt,
Patricia Estes, James Mahaffey, Trudy Mackay, Heather Patisaul,
Antonio Planchart, Emilie Rissman, Reade Roberts, David
Muddiman, Seth Kullman, Michael Cowley, Keith Weninger, Balaji
Rao, Greg Reeves, Cranos Williams, Nancy Allbritton, Matthew
Fisher, Zhen Gu, Elizabeth Loboa, Anne Taylor, Linyou Cao, Albena
Ivanisevic, Yaroslava Yingling, Shadow Huang, Jose Alonso, Robert
Franks, Candace Haigler, Tzung-Fu Hsieh, Imara Perera, Marcela
Rojas-Pierce, Anna Stepanova, Qiuyun Xiang, Ross Sozzani, Max
Scott, Colleen Doherty, Charles Stuber
Sustainable
Energy Systems
and Policy
Sustainable Energy Technology
and Policy
4
Joe DeCarolis, Laura Taylor, Kelly Zering, Roger von Haefen, Wally
Thurman, Tom Birkland, Chris Frey, Ranji Ranjithan, Iqbal Husain
CALS, COE,
CHASS, PCOM
4
Matthew Booker, R. Michael Young, Chandra Cox, Sandria
Freitag, Paul Fyfe, Anthony Harrison, Hamid Krim, Edgar Lobaton,
Jonathan Ocko (deceased January 2015)
COE, CHASS, COD
Visual Narrative
Visual Narrative
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Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program - April 20, 2015
CLUSTER DESCRIPTIONS
Carbon Electronics
Carbon and carbon hybrid electronics offer fundamentally new avenues to solve some of the
most important grand challenges of the 21st century, while at the same time requiring only low
energy-budget, environmentally-friendly processing and offering possible cradle-to-cradle
recycling. This cluster will pursue international prominence in next-generation, carbon-based
energy, display and/or detector technology and computation platforms, and it envisions
interrelated fundamental and applied technology advances that provide revolutionary computing
approaches, renewable power sources, advanced energy storage, and novel device capabilities
such as low-cost memory and sensors.
Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security
This cluster will develop new knowledge to understand the fundamental basis of emerging
infectious plant diseases caused by pathogens and pests —including the development of
tools—enabling a more rapid response to contain and limit potential damage by emerging
threats. Cluster faculty will study pathogens and pests in nature, in agriculture, and industrial
and food processing and make linkages from genomes to ecosystem processes.
Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
This cluster will position NC State as the leading university in the U.S. conducting critical
research and teaching in vital and complex global water and sanitation issues. It will address
the scientific, social, and policy issues associated with providing sustainable water and
sanitation in underserved populations in the developing world; its research and teaching will be
inspired and anchored on international community-based projects. Cluster faculty expertise will
include environmental science and technology, public health, social science and socioecology,
entrepreneurship and development economics, and public policy.
Leadership in Public Science
This cluster will engage the public in the process of science and prepare current and future
generations of scientists to communicate their work to public audiences in clear,
understandable, and actionable terms. This work will take the form of (1) studying how best to
communicate science to public audiences, (2) educating graduate students, postdocs and
faculty on best practices in science communication, (3) researching how best to educate
students about science, (4) doing science that directly engages the public and students and (5)
facilitating synergistic relationships with already existing Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence
Program clusters.
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Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program - April 20, 2015
Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities
This cluster will establish an internationally recognized center of excellence in the analysis and
engineering of plant, animal and insect microbiomes and microbial communities, with a focus on
communities associated with crop plants, farm animals, insect pests and the environment.
Cluster research will focus on four key areas: (1) microbial eco-genomics, (2)
metabolic/proteomic studies of microbial communities, (3) modeling of complex microbial
systems and (4) microbial community engineering.
Modeling the Living Embryo
One of the most fascinating and complex problems in biology concerns the process by which a
single cell develops into a living multicellular organism. This cluster will assemble a team of
scientists who will apply precision measurements of molecular, cellular and tissue dynamics in
living embryos, along with computer simulation and modeling, to understand the development,
growth and diversification of plants and animals. This novel program will foster multidisciplinary
collaborations across several colleges to build a unique research culture, and train a new
generation of quantitative and computational developmental biologists. The goal is to be able to
explain the complexity of embryonic development.
Sustainable Energy Systems and Policy
This cluster will develop an interdisciplinary research team capable of addressing societal
challenges related to energy sustainability. The vision of the cluster is to transform NC State into
a preeminent and high visibility hub for transdisciplinary research that informs key energy
decisions at the state, federal and international levels. It will catalyze the development of a
coordinated campus-wide energy initiative that leverages existing expertise to develop research,
education, and outreach programs that link technical research with policy, economics and
environmental impact assessment to deliver actionable energy solutions.
Visual Narrative
Narrative is a central mode of understanding the world around us, playing a key role in how we
make sense of our experiences, how we communicate them, how we share our culture, how we
understand its history and future trajectory, and how we explore hypothetical worlds that might
have been or might emerge. As narrative has expanded into digital media, new possibilities
arise for the creation as well as analysis of powerful visual narratives. This cluster will push the
shared frontiers of humanistic and engineering research to set a new agenda for advanced
multimodal scholarship, opening research pathways in image analytics, data visualization,
immersive experience, digital humanities, and computational media. It aims to broadly impact
our notions of media and to prepare innovative applications of visual narrative for the emerging
challenges of research and human communication.
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