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Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award

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

Recognizing Early Career Excellence

The Provost’s Office oversees the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award program. The program recognizes and rewards tenure-track assistant professors who demonstrated early productivity in STEM or STEM education research and innovation.

Approximately 25 awards are made annually. Faculty members selected as Goodnight Early Career Innovators received $22,000 annually for three years to support their scholarship and research endeavors.

NC State Announces 2022-23 Goodnight Early Career Innovators


This program recognizes and rewards promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. The 25 faculty selected will receive $22,000 ­for each of the next three years to support their scholarship and research endeavors.

Selected Innovators

Since the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award program began in 2021, 74 faculty have received this honor. Here’s the most recent class of innovators.