September 2020

Sep 1, 2020

Alumna Makes Lead Gift to Help Establish Endowment Honoring Tharp

NC State's Department of Computer Science recently announced efforts to establish the Dr. Alan L. Tharp Undergraduate Innovation Endowment in honor of Tharp, previous department chair and Alumni Distinguished Professor. The proposed endowment will provide programmatic funds, with a preference toward supporting and encouraging undergraduate research and innovation. The fundraising effort was seeded by a $12,000 gift from computer science alumna Marcia G. McLawhorn (B.S. ‘70). 

Sep 1, 2020

Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity Annual Impact Report

Review the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity's 2019-20 annual report to learn more about efforts in nine core areas and why the office does this work, which is enhanced by donor support. 

Sep 1, 2020

Moving Out, Moving In, Moving Forward

Learn more about the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering's move into Centennial Campus' newest building, Fitts-Woolard Hall. One of the first areas to be shifted in August was the Construction, Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, usually referred to simply as Mann 100. David Johnston, Edward I. Weisiger Distinguished Professor Emeritus, has been overseeing the move. 

Sep 1, 2020

A Strawless Step Forward

Park Scholars Shannon Dolan, majoring in environmental sciences, and Annalise Hafner, majoring in biochemistry and nutrition science, are using a grant from the NC State Sustainability Fund to explore ways to reduce the number of single-use plastic straws discarded on campus. Efforts include promoting reusable straws, not using straws at all and using compostable sip lids. 

Sep 1, 2020

What a Changing Climate May Mean For Crop Pests

Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Entomology Clyde Sorenson and other notable NC State faculty members weigh in on what the future holds for farmers in North Carolina and around the world. Of particular note are the effects that insects will have on agriculture here and abroad, as increasing carbon dioxide levels and unusual weather patterns will cause some species to thrive and others to go extinct. 

Sep 1, 2020

Chemistry Researchers Receive $3.3M as Part of New Solar Energy Center

Felix (Phil) Castellano and three other NC State researchers are part of a team that recently received U.S. Department of Energy funding to establish a research center to advance artificial photosynthesis for the production of fuels from sunlight. The team, which includes investigators at six institutions, will use the $3.3 million to be received over five years for their work with the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE). Castellano is a professor of chemistry and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair. 

Sep 1, 2020

A Different Kind of Summer

Park Scholar Madison Mueller was one of many members of the Pack impacted by COVID-19 this summer. Read along as she and others from our student body, faculty and staff recount their unusual offseason. 

Sep 1, 2020

A Simple Wearable Microfluidic Patch Allows Long-term Sweat Biomarker Monitoring

NC State professors Orlin Velev and Michael Dickey, alum Timothy Shay (Ph.D. ’17) and Ph.D. candidate Tamoghna Saha have developed a paper-based device that serves as a model of wearables that can collect, transport and analyze sweat in next-generation wearables technology. Velev is the S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor and Dickey is the Alcoa Professor and a University Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering.