NDSU has named Paul Kelter professor of education and director of the Center for Instructional Excellence and Innovation, the Center for Science and Math Education, the STEM Education Ph.D. Program and the College Teaching Certificate Program.

Kelter previously was Board of Trustees Professor in the Department of Literacy Education at Northern Illinois University from 2007 to 2014. He was University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and professor of chemistry from 2003 to 2007 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Kelter earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from City College of the City University of New York in 1976. He earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1980.

He is a member of the National Science Teachers Association, International Center for First-Year Undergraduate Chemistry Education and the National Science Education Leadership Association.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation’s top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.