“How do you become a successful faculty member?”

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Wayne Scales, Ph.D. ’88, asked the students, postdocs and faculty attending the June 17 Future Professors Institute to ponder this question during the event’s keynote, “Fostering Strategic University Partnerships for Excellence and Innovation: A Practitioner’s Approach,” before offering his own answer.

“A lot of it has to do with passion,” he said.

Scales, associate vice provost for faculty affairs and J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Virginia State University, encouraged future faculty in the audience to pursue not only their research interests, but also the impact they want to have.

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