The Holladay Medal is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the trustees and the university. The 2000 Holladay Medal recipients will be recognized at the university's Honors Convocation, to be held in May 2001. The 2001 Holladay Medal recipients, yet to be selected, will be recognized at the same event. Col. Alexander Q. Holladay, the university's first president. It recognizes the contributions of faculty members in teaching, research and service.
Winners receive a medal and a framed certificate.
Their names are also inscribed on a plaque in the NC State Faculty Senate chambers. Dr. John A. Bailey joined the NC State faculty as an associate professor in 1967 and became a full professor in 1972. He was the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering's associate department head from 1983 to 1984, and its head from 1984 to 1992. Prior to coming to NC State, he served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1967. A native of England, Bailey earned a bachelor's degree in pure and applied mathematics at the University of London in 1957, and both bachelor's and doctoral degrees in metallurgy at the University College of Swansea, University of Wales, in 1960 and 1963, respectively.