Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award

Important Dates:

9.03.25 Packages are due to department heads – contact your department head for what is required
9.10.25 Full packages are due to the Award Review Group – department heads submit nominations (up to 2) – nominees to email materials to Xiangwu Zhang
9.17.25 Award Review Group selects college nominations; all nominees are notified; comments and suggestions on packages are due to the college nominees
9.24.25 Final packages are due to the dean’s office – nominees to email them to Dean’s EA
10.01.25 Packages are due to the university – Dean’s EA will submit

Wilson College of Textiles Nomination Limit: 2

Award Review Group (all by position): Jeff Joines, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Emiel Denhartog, Kristin Thoney-Barletta, Xiangwu Zhang

Award Website:https://provost.ncsu.edu/faculty-resources/awards-and-honors/internal-awards/goodnight-early-career-innovators-award/

Award Information
The Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award, established in 2021, supports early career faculty excellence and promotes retention of tenure-track assistant professors whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education.

Selection Criteria
Nominees should show outstanding promise for future achievement and impact in STEM and STEM education. A strong nominee will have demonstrated superior scholarly achievement at an early career stage and will have a rigorous research agenda that speaks to the candidate’s potential to advance knowledge in STEM or STEM education. Evidence of early productivity in research and innovation may include a strong early record of scholarly publication or dissemination appropriate to the discipline (including co-authorship with leaders in their field, external funding, or recognition as an early career leader in their field (e.g. NSF or NIH pre- and post-doctoral awards).