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Lisa Marshall

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Lisa Marshall

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

Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs

room 3150 Burlington Labs

919.515.5876

Bio

Past President, American Nuclear Society (former Board of Directors 2017-2020)
Faculty Senator, NC State University
Chair, Association of Women Faculty, NC State University
Founding Director, NEO Research Group
Co-Director, NC State Study Abroad Program in Engineering & Social Sciences
Research Fellow, Good Energy Collective (GEC)

Grants

PI, PULSTAR Reactor Outreach and Sharing for K-12 Organizations (US Department of Energy, 2026-2028)

Co-PI, Consortium for Reactor Safety & Training CRεST (US Department of Energy, 2026-30)

Co-PI and Education Outreach Director, Consortium for Strategic Revitalization of Cyber-Physical Nuclear Infrastructure for Advanced Small Modular Reactors (US Department of Education; 2024-28)

Co-PI,  NC Consortium for Consent-Based Siting (US Department of Energy, 2024-26)

Advisory Councils

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

Advisory Committee Member, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Partnership in Nuclear Energy (PNE)

Advisory Forum Member, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Defense Production Act (DPA) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium

Working Advisory Council Member, NC State’s WISE Learning & Living Village

Former Advisory Review Panel Member, US Department of Energy, Harnessed Atom (STEM curriculum for teachers & students)

Biography

Lisa Marshall is a Past President and former Executive Board Member of the American Nuclear Society. Marshall has been an active member, with leadership roles, since 2005. With over 24 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 principal investigator (PI), co-PI 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 (nuclear) engineering education, human capacity building/workforce development, (inter)national co-curricular programming, energy geography, and geographic information systems (GIS).

Courses

“Introduction to Engineering & Problem Solving” (department lead for First Year Engineering Design Project: Light sensitive monitor for the PULSTAR reactor)

“Engineering in the 21st Century” (first year engineering students)

“Geographies of Energy” Course Faculty & Co-Director, Study Abroad Program in Engineering & Social Sciences (open to rising sophomore, junior & senior students). Sites include China (2016-19), Puerto Rico (2022), and Barranquilla, Columbia (2024).

(Under)graduate Co-Curricular Programming —

  • Professional & career development
  • Alternative spring break — Trinidad (2016), and Rwanda program (2017)
  • Study abroad – China (2016-19), Puerto Rico (2022), Colombia (2024), Prague (2025)
  • Student exchange

Pre-college Programs (middle & high school level as well as community colleges)

Faculty Co-Adviser, NC State Nuclear Engineering student organizations

Former Ad-Honorem Faculty, NC State Summer Program in Engineering & Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaquez

Recent Papers/Presentations

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, April 15). Workforce Development – Challenges and Opportunities [Panel Presentation]. IAEA Regulatory Infrastructure & Inter-American Nuclear Collaboration Regional Meeting on Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Technology Insights & Economics and Financing of Nuclear Projects, Asuncion, Paraguay.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, March 24 ).  Sustainable education, training and capacity development for the Nuclear Energy in Building Africa’s nuclear workforce: developing skills and local capacity session [Conference Presentation]. Harnessing Nuclear Energy for Africa’s Sustainable Development: International Conference on Nuclear Energy (ICoNE), Nairobi, Kenya.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, March 10). Nuclear Career & Professional Development in Academia [Conference Presentation). Waste Management (WM) Symposia, Phoeniz, AZ.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, February 11). Geographical Landscape of Nuclear Energy in the 21st century [Seminar Presentation]. UNC Greensboro, Department of Geography, Environment & Sustainability, Greensboro, NC.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, February 11). Retention and Success in STEM: UNCG and Beyond [Panel Presentation]. UNC-Greensboro RISE Network Speaker Series, Greensboro, NC.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, October 15 ). Lessons from nonnuclear – Avoiding echo chambers [Fireside Chat]. Fourth NEA Stakeholder Involvement Workshop on Optimisation in Decision Making From Insight to Action, Paris, France.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, September 30). Enhancing cross-disciplinary approaches to nuclear engineering education, training and outreach [Plenary Presentation]. OECD NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, September 10). Fueling the Pipeline: Driving Workforce Growth Through Innovation [Plenary Presentation]. Nuclear Energy Conference & Exposition (NECX), Atlanta, GA.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, August 13). Policy leaders-drivers for nuclear deployment including power for off-grid applications [Plenary Presentation]. SMiRT 28: 28th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, August 5). Nuclear and society – earning trust, building consensus and advancing social licence [Plenary Presentation]. Nuclear Futures: shaping nuclear dialogue in a changing world, Sydney, Australia.

Workshop Chair/Moderator –

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, March 17). The Role of Academia in the Future Polish Nuclear Workforce [Day 1 Moderator]. NEA Global Forum Nuclear Education National Workshop, hosted by the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, December 10-12). [Chair/Moderator]. OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA). NEA Global Forum Rising Stars Programme hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Extension Addition(s) –

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, April 11). Be a Nuclear Science Detective [Developer]. Marbles Backwards Science Fair, Raleigh, NC.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2026, February 12). Destination Nuclear Engineering [Opening Speaker]. Youth Energy Academy Event for the American Association of Blacks in Energy, Raleigh NC.

Marshall, Lisa M. and NC State Women in Nuclear Student Chapter (2025, October 25) [Developer & Presenter]. Girls’ Scout Nuclear Energy Merit Badge, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.

Marshall, Lisa Marshall and NC State American Nuclear Society Student Chapter (2025, October 25) [Developer & Presenter]. Scouts’ Nuclear Science Merit Badge at NC State University, Raleigh, NC.

Marshall, Lisa M. (2025, September 30). Educators’ workshop with high school educators on classroom approaches to nuclear topics.

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

REVIEWER
ANS, ASEE, NSF, AAG

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