March 2017

Mar 20, 2017

Starting Down a New Road

Park Scholar Liv Adams, a 2016 graduate of NC State's Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has started her engineering career at Tesla. 

Mar 20, 2017

Scholarship Allows Literacy Teacher to Pursue Master’s

Mary-Lynn Kebker, ’17, a fourth-grade teacher at Leesville Road Elementary School in Raleigh, received a scholarship from NC State’s Graduate Literacy Cohort Program. 

Mar 20, 2017

NC State’s Sederoff Honored for Molecular Genetics Work with Forest Trees

Ron Sederoff, a Distinguished University Professor of Forestry and the Edwin F. Conger Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources, has won the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Prize, an international award for scientific achievements in fields important to forestry. 

Mar 20, 2017

Road Trip Redux

Goodnight Scholars loaded up the vans and hit the road again for a week of STEM education advocacy from the mountains to coast of North Carolina. 

Mar 20, 2017

Students Soar in Multicultural Scholars Program

The Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science provides educational and experiential opportunities for outstanding students. Scholars are selected upon admission to the poultry science department, after successful completion of the ASPIRE program and the Poultry Science Summer Institute. 

Mar 20, 2017

Exceptional Student Leader Recognized

Sport management major Brandon Smith recently received the 2017 William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award from the National Intramural-Recreation Sports Association. Smith, the recipient of two parks, recreation and tourism departmental scholarships, is one of 20 students to receive the award nationally. 

Mar 20, 2017

NC State Acceleration Fund Accepting Applications

The program provides equity-free grants and pro bono support services to entrepreneurs who complete the Andrews Launch Accelerator program. The goal is to help accelerate economic development. The NC State Acceleration Fund was made possible by a $1 million seed donation from Lyn and Chip Andrews. 

Mar 13, 2017

Hidden Potential

Hasan Jameel, the Jordan Family Distinguished Professor for Natural Resource Innovation, and his students are working to unleash untapped potential in America’s forests that could help reduce the nation’s dependence on nonrenewable resources. 

Mar 13, 2017

Cassandra Kwon: Opportunity and Ambition Lead to Innovation

Cassandra Kwon, a College of Textiles research assistant professor, turns textile science into life-saving solutions. As a scholarship recipient, she credits generous donors with giving her the chance to maintain a sharp focus on her graduate research. 

Mar 13, 2017

Alum Receives Prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Adriano Bellotti, a 2015 summa cum laude graduate of NC State with a degree in biomedical engineering and a minor in biological sciences, will use his award to pursue doctoral studies in engineering at the University of Cambridge before returning to medical school. As an undergraduate at NC State, Bellotti was a two-time recipient of both the departmental Abrams Scholar award and the Katherine Stinson Scholarship for excellence in engineering, as well as a recipient of the Thermo Scientific Antibody Scholarship and an Honors Village Fellow.