Felecia M. Nave

Felecia Diane McInnis Nave is an American chemical engineer and academic administrator. She is the 20th President of Alcorn State University and the first female to serve in the position.

Felicia Nave
20th President of Alcorn State University
Assumed office
July 1, 2019
Preceded byAlfred Rankins
Personal details
Born
Felecia Diane McInnis

Prentiss, Mississippi, U.S.
Alma materAlcorn State University (BS)
University of Toledo (MS, PhD)

Early life and education

Nave is a native of Prentiss, Mississippi.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Alcorn State University, graduating cum laude.[2] She earned a Master of Science in chemical and environmental engineering from University of Toledo. Nave also completed a PhD in engineering at the University of Toledo in 2005.[3] Her dissertation was titled Impact of Mobile Phase Parameters on the Transport Properties of Proteins in Immobilized Metal Affinity Hydrogel Membranes. Maria R. Coleman was her doctoral advisor.[4]

Career

Nave served on the faculty and served in administrative roles at Prairie View A&M University from 2003 to 2018. As provost at PVAMU, she guided the university's expansion both globally and locally. She spearheaded projects that involved new degree development, faculty and student development, diversity and inclusion, intensification of PVAMU's research efforts and strengthening the university's focus on STEM fields.[5]

She was the provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at North Carolina Central University.[2] On July 1, 2019, Nave succeeded Alfred Rankins as president of Alcorn State University.[2][6] She is the 20th president and first woman to serve in the role.[1]

Personal life

Nave and her husband, Tracie Nave, have four children.[7]

Awards and honors

In 2008, Nave won Praire View A&M University College of Engineering Outstanding Service Award. In the same year, she was also invited to the Louis Stokes Council of Opportunity in Education Policy Summit at Washington DC. In 2009, Nave received the Praire View A&M University Student Organization Advisor of the Year. She was also nominated for the National Society of Women Engineers Faculty Advisor Award. In 2013, she was selected as Diverse Issues Emerging Scholars Under 40[8]. In 2015, Nave was the recipient of Top 30 Influential Women of Houston Award. She received the AICHE MAC Eminent Scholars Award in 2017, and University of Toledo Department of Chemical Engineering Outstanding Alumna Award in 2019[9][10].

See also

References
  1. "Story Details - Alcorn State University". www.alcorn.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  2. "Alcorn State University names alumna Felecia M. Nave next president". Mississippi Today. 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  3. "CV" (PDF). Prairie View A&M University. 2016.
  4. Nave, Felecia Diane McInnis (2005). Impact of mobile phase parameters on protein transport in metal affinity hydrogels (Thesis). OCLC 62211672.
  5. "Felecia Nave | North Carolina Central University". www.nccu.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  6. "Felecia Nave". Jackson Free Press. 2019-04-29. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  7. Wednesday, Holley Cochran Email the author Published 2:24 pm; May 1; 2019 (2019-05-01). "Nave named president of Alcorn State University". Prentiss Headlight. Retrieved 2020-05-31.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. "Emerging Scholars 2014". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, a CMA Publication.
  9. "Alcorn State University welcomes Dr. Felecia M. Nave as the 20th President, HBCU Campaign Fund | Celebrating HBCUs Around The United States". HBCU Campaign Fund | Celebrating HBCUs Around The United States. 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  10. report, Staff. "Meridian/Lauderdale Alcorn State University Alumni Chapter presents …". Meridian Star. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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