Duane Larick, Ph.D., interim dean of North Carolina State University's Graduate School and a professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences, has been named dean of the Graduate School, effective March 1.
As dean, Larick will provide leadership for a graduate program serving more than 7,400 full- and part-time students from across the U.S. and from 85 other countries. NCSU's graduate program administers 220 different graduate degrees (master's, Ph.D. and Ed.D.) across all 10 of NCSU's academic colleges.
In addition to serving as dean, Larick will also hold the positions of associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and professor in the school"s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences.
Larick joined the NCSU faculty as an assistant professor of food science in 1984, and was named assistant dean of the Graduate School in 2000 and senior associate dean in 2006.