On May 22, 2009, Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr. was elected as the twelfth Chancellor of the University. The following year, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical received approval to establish a Ph.D. program in Computational Science and Engineering beginning in the fall of 2010.[1] That same year, the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) opened with 17 students in the doctoral program in nanoscience and one student in the professional master's program in nanoscience.