UNC Greensboro

Following a comprehensive national search, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro are pleased to announce Masud H. Chowdhury, Ph.D., as the new dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN). Chowdhury, who also will serve as professor of nanoengineering, will assume the role Aug. 15.

Three alumni. Three career paths. One school. So much success.

When you hear the name the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, you may wonder what careers graduates pursue.

The possibilities are endless.

Effat Zeidan Hatoum ’16 Ph.D. landed in academia. Beth Williard ’23 M.S. works as a chemist. And Naga Kollu ’20 Ph.D. leads pharmaceutical development. Their stories exemplify the diversity of careers a JSNN degree helps graduates achieve.

The students in our Class of 2025 hype video are more than just scholars. They represent the varied backgrounds, passions, and motivations of UNC Greensboro’s student body. Think you can’t relate? Think again.

Meet an online student and a student government vice president, a parent and a teenager, an international student and a frat boy, a scientist and a UNCG staff member, a doctor, a master, and an advisor – all within this group of three impressive graduates set to cross the stage at this year’s commencement.

Congratulations to Prof. Jianjun Wei from the Department of Nanoscience for receiving a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division in the Engineering Directorate.

Small, membrane-bound structures that cells in the human body release to transport a variety of proteins, nucleic acids and metabolites may also be used to carry specialized treatments for a wide array of diseases across a critical layer of cells meant to protect the brain against pathogens: the blood-brain barrier.