For Jacelyn Rice-Boayue, joining CCEE meant an opportunity to help build NC State’s already long-standing reputation in environmental engineering. 

Rice-Boayue started work at CCEE in August as an assistant professor working with the environmental, water resources, and coastal engineering group and teaching CE 488/588 — Water Resources Engineering. She earned her B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in civil, sustainable and environmental engineering at Arizona State University. Rice-Boayue completed postdoctoral research at Duke University within the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. She served as a Fulbright Scholar at the International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering in Burkina Faso. 

Rice-Boayue most recently served as an assistant professor at UNC Charlotte, where she received the College of Engineering Undergraduate Award in Teaching Excellence. Her research group aims to provide new understanding and solutions to foster sustainable water resource management through modeling, analytical, and social science capabilities to examine water quality, environmental health and contaminants, and environmental justice. 

“Much of our work focuses on environmental and human health exposures to wastewater-derived emerging contaminants through model-informed surveillance and field studies,” she said.

Rice-Boayue said she is excited to work with such a “great group” of CCEE faculty and students.  

“I most look forward to engaging with the NC State community and continuing to grow as a faculty member,” she said.