Bruce Poulton (March 7, 1927 ? June 19, 2015) was the tenth chancellor of North Carolina State University from 1982 to 1989.

Poulton was born in Yonkers , New York . He was educated at Rutgers University , where he received a Ph.D. in endocrinology in 1956. ^[1]

In 1971 he was appointed as vice president of the University of Maine , an office he held until becoming chancellor of the consolidated University of New Hampshire in 1975.

In 1982 Poulton left New Hampshire to serve as chancellor of North Carolina State University ; he was the school's 10th chief executive. While at N.C. State he obtained land and funding for the university's Centennial Campus . He also developed Centennial Campus's first master plan. He stepped down from the chancellor's position in 1989 and served as director of N.C. State's Literacy Systems Center. ^[1] The Poulton Innovation Center on Centennial Campus was named in his honor. ^[2]

Poulton's resignation was marked with controversy as it came just before the release of a six-month investigation into N.C. State's athletic department. The investigation was triggered by Peter Golenbock 's Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State and allegations made therein against the school's basketball program under head coach Jim Valvano . Poulton died in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 19, 2015 at the age of 88. ^{[3] [4]}

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