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NC State Researchers Continue Improving Sweet Potatoes for Africa

July 2020

a crane prepares to lower a bell into the belltower

Jul 6, 2020

At Long Last, Bells

For a century, NC State's majestic and beloved Memorial Belltower has been missing something: bells. In June, that began to change. Learn more about the historic moment and the process leading up to it. 
a hand holding up a sign with a cartoon rendering of Bobby Purcell

Jul 6, 2020

Family Ties

Bobby Purcell, who retired June 30 after leading the Wolfpack Club for decades, reflects on his experience and says NC State fans are like family. 
Tahj Boston portrait

Jul 6, 2020

Annable Scholar Opening Doors to Encourage Diversity in Veterinary Medicine

Tahj Boston, a member of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Class of 2022 pursuing a career in pathology, is also dedicated to opening the door to careers in veterinary medicine for students from historically Black colleges and universities, like her undergraduate alma mater. The Michele M. and Ross M. Annable Scholarship is helping to support both Boston’s professional goals and her dedication to community service. 
Eric Wylie smiling in front of trees while wearing an NC State sweatshirt

Jul 6, 2020

Why I Give: College of Education Student Eric Wylie

The support Eric Wylie '23 receives from the Dorothy E. and Robert W. Tart Jr. Scholarship has inspired him to give back to the College of Education to help others like him. 
Gateway to campus

Jul 6, 2020

Metabolite Analysis of ALS Patient Blood Plasma Could Reveal, Rule Out, Possible Biomarkers for Disease

NC State's David Muddiman, Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Michael Bereman, associate professor of biological sciences, have co-authored a paper that sheds further light on a pathway involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease progression and appears to rule out the role of one environmental neurotoxin. 
portrait of Anita and Tony Avent

Jul 6, 2020

Delighting Plant Lovers With Unique Blooms

Tony Avent, a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumnus who studied horticulture under J.C. Raulston, has seen a dramatic uptick in business -- and meaningful connections -- as the owner of Plant Delights Nursery, which ships rare and unusual perennials worldwide. The mail-order nursery funds Juniper Level Botanic Garden, a 28-acre research and education garden in Raleigh. Avent and his wife Anita have begun to create an endowment that will gift the garden to NC State as a bequest. 
Marcy Murphy receives a Coat of Excellence from Cyndie Tomlin

Jul 6, 2020

Hearing Restoration Leads to Coat of Excellence

Cyndie Tomlin recently honored the care her cocker spaniel received at the College of Veterinary Medicine with a Coat of Excellence. Gifts to the Coat of Excellence program, which enables clients to recognize the compassionate care of CVM clinicians, support the hospital’s efforts to provide the same standard of care to other animals and their human companions. 
Bells on the bed of a truck

Jul 6, 2020

At Long Last, Bells

For a century, NC State's majestic and beloved Memorial Belltower has been missing something: bells. In June, that began to change. Learn more about the historic moment and the process leading up to it. 
downtown raleigh

Jul 6, 2020

Taking Care of Business

Park Scholars Chasta Hamilton ’07, Luke Perkins ’14 and Lindsay Wrege ’21 lead different types of businesses, but all shifted operations when faced with unprecedented challenges this spring. 
Craig Yencho and Bernard Yada survey sweetpotato vines at a research farm in Uganda  

Jul 6, 2020

NC State Researchers Continue Improving Sweet Potatoes for Africa

Craig Yencho and Zhao-Bang Zeng, both William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professors at NC State, are developing new genomic tools to improve sweet potato breeding while focusing on the needs of farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.