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Carolyn Winstead Meyers, Ph.D.

Carolyn W. Meyers, Ph.D., the fourth president of Norfolk State University, previously served as provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and a tenured professor in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University.  Meyers holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Howard University, a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, also from Georgia Tech.  She has completed post doctoral work at Harvard University.  Her career in higher education spans more than 30 years and includes both academic and administrative experiences.

Highlights from her career include the following:

• Currently serves as the first chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Institute of Aerospace Foundation and previously served as inaugural chair of National Institute of Aerospace Board of Directors.

• Currently holds membership on the Board of Trustees of Norwich University, MentorNet, the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, the Board of Governors for RTI International, the Advisory Board for the Journal of Engineering Education, the Board of Directors of Riverside Health Foundation, Hampton Roads Partnership, the Greater Norfolk Corporation; Nauticus, the Norfolk Forum, and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board.  Also serves on the Regional Board of Directors for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, an Advisory Committee Member for the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project, a member of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2007 Assessment Task Force, a member the Economics Club of Hampton Roads, and serving a second term as a member-at-large of the ASME Committee on Honors.

• Current appointments to the Innovative Technology Authority, the American Council on Education Commission on Effective Leadership and a two-year term on the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Council of State Representatives beginning January 1, 2009.

• She has served on other boards in other states including the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and the Moses Cone Health Systems.

• Served as the first associate dean of research for the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech and was later appointed professor and dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.

• Inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.

• In addition to university service, served as a program officer in two divisions of the National Science Foundation—the Division of Undergraduate Education and the Division of Human Resource Development.

• Received numerous national awards in higher education including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers’ Ralph A. Teetor Award, and the National Society of Black Engineers’ Golden Torch Award.