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Henry C. “Hank Foley, Ph.D., is the fourth president of New York Institute of Technology. He joined the university in June 2017 after serving as interim chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia. While at Penn State he was the Walter L. Robb Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering, and eventually the vice president for research and dean of the graduate school. He has held faculty appointments at MU, Penn State, and the University of Delaware. An accomplished researcher who has dedicated more than 30 years to advancing the study of nanotechnology, Foley holds 16 patents, has written more than 200 articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. Foley is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society’s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors.
