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Department of Nuclear Engineering

Lisa Marshall

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Assistant Extension Professor | Director of Outreach, Retention, and Engagement

Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs

room 3150 Burlington Labs

919.515.5876

Bio

Founding Director, NEO Research Group

Co-PI, US Department of Energy-funded NC Consortium for Consent-Based Siting

Co-PI and Education Outreach Director, US Department of Energy-funded Consortium for Strategic Revitalization of Cyber-Physical Nuclear Infrastructure for Advanced Small Modular Reactors

Advisory Committee Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Fission and Fusion Energy and Science Directorate (FFESD)

Nuclear Engineering Coordinator of Advising

Associate Director of the Undergraduate Program

Co-Director, NC State Study Abroad Program in Engineering & Social Sciences

Immediate Past President & Executive Board Member, American Nuclear Society

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Global Forum Working Groups

  • Council of Advisors, Global Forum on Nuclear Education
  • Chair, Building a Pipeline of STEM Professionals
  • Member, Achieving Balance in Nuclear Technology and Academic Workforces
  • Member, Rethinking the Relationship between Nuclear Energy and Society; Task Force 2 – Multidisciplinary Approaches in Nuclear Education, Training and Outreach

 

Biography

Lisa Marshall is the Immediate Past President and Executive Board Member of the American Nuclear Society. Marshall has been an active member, with leadership roles, since 2005. With over 23 years of engineering education experience spanning pre-college to graduate studies, Marshall is the Director of Outreach, Retention and Engagement (starting in 2001), and the Assistant Extension Professor (starting in 2023) at North Carolina State University Department of Nuclear Engineering.
Marshall is co-principal investigator or education outreach director on several U.S. Department of Energy-funded consortia. She teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program, developed & teaches an upper-level Energy Geographies course, co-directs the Study Abroad Program in Engineering and Social Sciences, and serves on the Working Council for the WISE Living & Learning Village.
Lisa is a member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Council of Advisers, sits on several of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy working groups, and chairs the working group on Building a Pipeline of STEM Professionals. She has held positions in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) & the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and remains an active member of both organizations.
Professor Marshall leads the NEO Research Group, a multi-university set of scholars focused on engagement initiatives to introduce, attract, and retain students in the STEM field with a focus on nuclear science & technology. Broadly, her research work is in the areas of energy geography, (nuclear) engineering education, (inter)national co-curricular scholarship, geographic information systems (GIS), and student engagement.


Assistant Extension Professor & Director of Outreach, Retention and Engagement, NC State Nuclear Engineering

Faculty co-adviser, NC State Nuclear Engineering student organizations

2020-2023 Co-chair, JEDI Committee (strategic plan development & resources), American Association of Geographers

2014-2020 Educational Outreach Director, US DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-funded Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities (CNEC)

2012-2015 Board of Advisers, US NSF-funded Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure & Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity (ALIGNED), American Association for Geographers (AAG)

2011-12 Educational Advisory Committee Member, US DOE-funded Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL)

(Co)productions…

Instructional Video, 2021 IAEA Workshop (40-minute)
Educational Video, 2021 ANS Student Conference (40-minute)
NC State Nuclear Brochure
2-minute & 5-minute Departmental Spotlights
2019-2020 Senior Design Presentations
2020 Graduation Student Moments
Departmental News (stories & photos)
Departmental Fact Sheets

Select On-Campus Roles…

         Working Advisory Council Member, NC State’s WISE Learning & Living Village
         Chair, NC State’s Association for Women Faculty (AWF)
         Committee Member, NC State Fellowship Advising Office
         Former Faculty Mentor
                       NC State Global Perspective Certificate Program
                       NC State Grand Challenges Scholars Program
                       NC State Pack Promise
2023-24 Committee Member, NC State Park Scholars Program
        Career Identity Advocate/Coach, Green Zone Veteran Advocate
        Lead/Adviser, Fellowships & Scholarships – (inter)national & industry at university, college, department levels
        Former Judge, NC State Student Conduct Board

Select Off-Campus Roles…

Immediate Past President, American Nuclear Society (ANS), 2025-26(serving as 2023-24 VP, 2024-25 President)
2025 Organizing Member, OECD NEA Global Forum Symposium/Rising Stars (2024 Rising Stars Moderator & Mentor)
Co-Coordinator, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Lisa Meitner Early Professional Program Workshop, June 2023
Advisory Committee Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Fission and Fusion Energy and Science Directorate (FFESD) 
Chair, ANS Special Committee on STEM Education, 2023-
Member, North Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council, 2023-
Co-Chair, NC Nuclear Industry Work Force Development Committee, 2023-
Member, National Nuclear Engineering Department Communicators’ Group, 2020 – present
Vice Chair, American Nuclear Society (ANS) External Affairs Committee, 2020 – present
Advisory Board Member, Virginia Commonwealth University, Nuclear Engineering Program, 2022/23 – present
Board of Advisers, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Department of Nuclear Engineering, 2017 – present
Co-Founder & Former Co-Vice Chair, ANS CARES Committee, ongoing member
Member, ANS Development Committee, 2019 – present
Member, ANS Radiation Rapid Response Team, 2019 – present
Former Program Chair, ANS Education Training, Workforce & Development Division (2014-15 past division chair)
Member, Region II Communications Committee Member, US Women in Nuclear
Reviewer, National, Regional & University Fellowship & Scholarship Committees
Technical Reviewer, Journal for Women & Minorities in Technology, 2019 – present
Reviewer, ANS NuclearConnect.org, ongoing
Reviewer, national fellowship programs, ongoing

Former Board of Directors, American Nuclear Society, 2017-2020
Former Advisory Review Panel Member, US Department of Energy, Harnessed Atom (STEM curriculum for teachers & students)
Former Ad-Honorem Faculty, NC State Summer Program in Engineering & Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaquez

Conference Roles…

Technical Committee Member, 2023 ANS Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE) Biennial International Forum (2017, 2019, 2022, 2023)

2021 Early Career Program Committee, SMiRT 26 (International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 19/Toronto, 25/Charlotte)

Co-Adviser, 2021 ANS National Student Conference

Student Programs Committee Chair and Diversity & Inclusion Committee Member, 2021 ANS M&C: International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods

Organizing Committee, 2019 American Society of Engineering Education – Southeastern Conference (ASEE)

Select Papers/Presentations…

Marshall, Lisa (2024). “Interim Fuel Storage – initial lessons”, Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Idaho Falls, ID.

Marshall, Lisa (2023). “Recruitment and Retention of Women Experts in Nuclear Energy Sector: Challenges and Worldwide Initiatives” at the 30th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE) (invited panelist, pre-recorded).

Marshall, Lisa (2021). “Geographies of Energy – a course in socio-technical decision making” at the Executive Session on The Nuclear, Humanities, and Social Science Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Speaking Across the Disciplinary Divides, ANS Winter Meeting, Washington DC (invited panelist)

Marshall, Lisa (2021). “The 2nd Modern Nuclear ‘Renaissance’ in the Making? positioning nuclear, climate change, and infrastructure” at the University of the Philippine, Department of Geography Colloquium/Philippine Geographical Society Lecture Series (invited presenter).

Bottomley, Laura, Veronica Catete, Kanton Reynolds, Veronica Mbamane, Lisa Marshall, Angelitha Daniel, and Kimberly Pender (2021), “Developing Sustainable, Mutually Collaborative, Global Partnerships” at WEEF-GEDC 2021, World Engineering Education Forum, International Federation of Engineering Education Societies & The Global Engineering Deans Council.

Marshall, Lisa (2021). “Geographies of Energy – a course in socio-technical decision making” in Nuclear Technology, volume 207 no. 9, July 2021.

Marshall, Lisa (2020). “Geography & Nuclear Technology” in American Nuclear Society (ANS) Nuclear News, volume 63, no. 10, September 2020

Marshall, Lisa et al (2020). “Thought Leaders on Capacity Factors and Nuclear Power” in ANS Nuclear News, Volume 63, no. 6, May 2020

Marshall, Lisa. (2019). “Energy Geographies: a course in socio-technical decision making”  at the Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), International Workshop on the Nuclear Social Science Nexus: challenges & opportunities for speaking across the disciplinary divide. (invited presenter)

Griffin, Clifford & Lisa Marshall (2019). “Creating a Sustainable International Program at NC State University”. 22nd Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, Cincinnati Ohio, October 2019 (presenter)

Marshall, Lisa (2019) “Graduate School 101” at American Nuclear Society –Student Conferences (annually since 2013, workshop organizer & presenter)

Marshall, Lisa. “Nuclear Energy: Technical Overview & Global Implications” at Global Issues Seminar on Energy, Office of International Affairs, NC State University, Raleigh NC, December 2015 (presenter & moderator)

Marshall, Lisa. Public Perceptions of Nuclear Science in NC State’s Scholars’ Program Series “Research Unplugged”. NC State University, Raleigh NC, October 2014 (invited presenter)

RECENT HONORS & AWARDS
2022               American Nuclear Society (ANS) Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Community Award
2022               ANS Presidential Citation
2020               ANS Young Members Advancement Award
2020               NC State College of Engineering Champion Award
2019               NC State Outstanding Engagement Award
2019               ANS Presidential Citation, Navigating Nuclear Subject Matter Expert Team
2017-18          NC State University, Barbara Solomon Advising Award Nominee
2009               ANS Landis Public Communications & Education Award
2006               NC State University, College of Engineering Award of Excellence

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ANS, ASEE, NSF, AAG

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