Larry K. Monteith, a native of Bryson City, NC, was an undergraduate of North Carolina State University and received his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Duke University. He worked at the Solid State Laboratory of the Research Triangle Institute before joining the faculty of the NC State University Department of Electrical Engineering in 1968. Monteith became NC State’s eleventh chancellor, serving from 1990-1998, and he was instrumental in developing its Centennial Campus. He lives with his wife, Nancy, in Morrisville, NC.
