Nancy L. Ross
Nancy Ross, professor of mineralogy in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, is the college's associate dean for research, graduate studies, and outreach.
In this role, Ross coordinates research activities within the college; finds new opportunities for funding faculty research; represents the research aspects of the college at both university and national levels; and manages research, graduate, and outreach administration within the college.
Ross joined the Department of Geological Sciences at Virginia Tech in 2000 after 12 years at University College London, where she had served as a lecturer (assistant professor) and a reader (associate professor).
Ross obtained her bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She received a graduate fellowship from the University of British Columbia, where she obtained her master's degree, and a graduate research assistantship from Arizona State University, where she obtained her Ph.D.
Ross is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Crystallographic Association, the American Geophysical Union, the Materials Research Society, and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. She has served on a number of commissions, councils and advisory groups for funding agencies such as NERC and the NSF, government laboratories such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and societies such as the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the International Mineralogical Association.
- Nancy L. Ross
- 115 College of Science Administration Building (0405)
- Blacksburg, VA 24061
- nross@vt.edu