Dr. Angela Lueking, Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School
Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School
Angela Lueking has over 20 years of progressive academic leadership experience across four diverse organizations: from a Carnegie R1 to a primarily undergraduate institution; from leading research teams to investing in research teams, from leading programs to leading people, and then, acting as a catalytic change agent for institutional transformation. She rose through the faculty ranks at Penn State, where she led interdisciplinary, multi-investigator research projects in the energy/materials space that spanned disciplines, Universities, national labs, and the globe. As a program director for interfacial engineering at the National Science Foundation, she made funding decisions and initiated programs that impacted careers, the field, and the discipline. As Associate Dean for Research in Engineering at Missouri S&T, she developed and built strategic initiatives centering around manufacturing, energy, minerals, and broadening participation, implemented faculty mentoring programs, and gained trust and advocated to minimize barriers to success. As Montana Tech doubled research expenditures in two years, Angela sought to: (1) create opportunities on campus by building partnerships across diverse stakeholders; (2) invest in initiatives and teams that leveraged inherent University assets; and (3) promote policies, procedures, staffing, and research centers that supported a research culture on campus. Angela oversaw a reinvention and streamlining of the graduate school, and her team fostered a 12% increase in graduate enrollment. Angela is Principal Investigator on an upcoming cross-campus externally funded initiative to create micro-credentials to serve government and industrial stakeholders in the extractive industries, and this is projected to increase enrollment by an additional 12% while significantly upgrading distance delivery and student services.