August 2019

Aug 20, 2019

Campus at the Coast

About 150 miles from Raleigh, NC State's Center for Marine Sciences and Technology is offering students unique experiences and furthering the university's research and outreach mission. 

Aug 13, 2019

Welcome to the Pack, 2023 Class of Centennial Scholars

The Centennial Scholarship program was established by the North Carolina Textile Foundation (NCTF) in 1999 as a part of the Wilson College of Textiles’ Centennial Celebration. Meet the 10 newest members of the program from the class of 2023. 

Aug 13, 2019

Serving with the Caldwell Fellows

A pillar of NC State's Caldwell Fellows program is service-learning, which involves a greater level of intention and reflection than service alone, and more civic engagement than a strictly academic learning experience. This summer, two Caldwell teams worked concurrently in different communities (Pozos, Mexico, and Siler City, NC) and shared their experiences with each other remotely. 

Aug 13, 2019

Guvnec Receives R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award

The R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award provides support for high-achieving young faculty in NC State's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in pursuing their academic and cutting-edge research initiatives. Alice B. Bennett endowed this faculty fellowship, which carries a $40,000 one-year award, as a memorial to her son. Ismail Guvnec, associate professor, will use the award to support his multidisciplinary research at the intersection of wireless communications and wireless networking 

Aug 13, 2019

Forestry Student Wins Resource Management Service Scholarship

Sarah Bailey, a College of Natural Resources senior studying forest management, is the recipient of a two-year scholarship from Resource Management Service, one of the world's leading managers of forest investments for institutional investors and the managers of a 50-year timber deed on NC State's Hofman Forest. The scholarship aims to promote forestry as a career path for student populations that have been historically underrepresented in the profession. 

Aug 13, 2019

The Impact of Mentorship During a Summer Research Experience with Nithin Gupta

Nithin Gupta, a senior majoring in genetics, is spending his summer on a research project focused on developing organoids that could revolutionize how we approach dealing with potential side-effects in medical treatments. His mentors include Jorge Piedrahita, professor of translational medicine and director of the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI), and Kathryn Polkoff, a second-year Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at the CMI. The University's Greatest Needs Fund helps support extraordinary undergraduate research experiences like Gupta's. 

Aug 13, 2019

Welcome Our New Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is welcoming 10 tenured or tenure-track faculty to NC State for the fall semester, including Irwin Morris, who joins the School of Public and International Affairs as executive director and William T. Kretzer Distinguished Professor. Learn about their varied scholarship and research interests. 

Aug 13, 2019

You Decide: How Different Are Local Economies?

William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Mike Walden breaks down a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, a private business management firm, that looks at the economic growth of several key areas of North Carolina. 

Aug 13, 2019

Connecting With Community: Caldwell Fellows Intern Erica Lisowe

The Caldwell Fellows Program is developing the next generation of self-aware, globally-minded students who engage in creative, conscientious leadership, and the Institute for Emerging Issues wants to help. Erica Lisowe, a member of the 2021 class of Caldwell Fellows, will be working with the institute on its Service Year NC project. 

Aug 13, 2019

Using Virtual Reality to Create New Tech for First Responders

Emerging technologies could allow first responders to call up all sorts of information when responding to an emergency. A team in NC State's Center for Educational Informatics, led by James Lester, Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science, is working to determine what information is most useful and how first responders might be able to control what information they see - and when.