Five Black Scholars Appointed to New Faculty Roles at Universities Across the Country

Stephen Bayne has been named the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure and vice chancellor for innovation and collaboration at Texas Tech University. He has been with the university since 2009, most recently serving as chair of the department of electrical & computer engineering. Dr. Bayne holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University. Ebony McGee has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. A trained electrical engineer, she has served as a professor of innovation and inclusion in the STEM ecosystem within the university’s School of Education and Public Health and department of mental health for the past year. Prior to her current role, she spent 11 years on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. McGee is a summa cum laude graduate of historically Black North Carolina A&T State University, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and mathematics education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. James E. Wright II, has joined the faculty at Arizona State...