Dr. Grant obtained her degrees in Chemical Engineering from Brown University (Sc.B.) and Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S. and Ph.D.). Dr. Grant has been Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State for over 31 years, and she was the inaugural Associate Dean of Faculty Advancement in the College of Engineering. She is currently on an IPA assignment as a Program Director in the Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Division in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at NSF. She currently manages the Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program, interfacing with NSF-wide broadening participation initiatives, including HBCU-EIR, ADVANCE and INCLUDES. She is the recent President-elect of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE); a Life Member of AIChE, SWE, AISES; and she is an AIChE Fellow. A change agent, Dr. Grant has been an active PI on multiple NSF ADVANCE grants and served on the advisory board or consulted with several ADVANCE schools including Texas A&M, Cornell, Lehigh, U of New Hampshire and the University of Cincinnati promoting institutional transformation in STEM fields. She is co-editor of Success Strategies from Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor (Elsevier/Academic Press), among many other STEM equity publications.
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Dean of Faculty Advancement in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University