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DeSimone Named Recipient of 22nd Heinz Award

2017

Sep 25, 2017

Taking a Different Route

Bret Barnes, a recent graduate of Southern Nash High School, will spend this year at a community college before joining the Prestage Department of Poultry Science next fall through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' STEAM program.

Sep 25, 2017

Revolutionizing Prosthetic Limb Technology

Michael McKnight, a Park Scholar alumnus, stays busy at the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) on Centennial Campus, while pursuing his doctorate in biomedical engineering.
Memorial Belltower lit up red

Sep 25, 2017

Innovating Water Treatment

Park Scholar Dani Winter, a senior in biological engineering, has enjoyed a four-year endeavor into stream restoration and water treatment that has included development of a new stormwater BMP (or “Best Management Practice”) called a floating island.
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Sep 25, 2017

Tailored for Transfers

Nearly a quarter of NC State College of Engineering undergrads start their academic career elsewhere. Madeline Yun, a junior in chemical engineering, is part of the first Goodnight Scholars transfer cohort and began her college career at Durham Tech.

Sep 24, 2017

CALS Graduate Student Enrollment Rising

Efforts to increase private support for graduate students and faculty are one key to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' strategic vision of becoming one of the top five colleges of its kind in the country by 2020.

Sep 18, 2017

The Value of a Gift

Alissa Allen Stribling speaks about the meaning of the Daniel Fromm Memorial Scholarship, which honors her late uncle by supporting a student in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science.

Sep 18, 2017

Poole College of Management Advances in Rankings

Private support has been part of the story of success for the young college.

Sep 18, 2017

Buggin’ Out: NC State’s Insect Museum Grows

When is a gift of more than 60,000 insects a good thing? When it becomes part of NC State’s Insect Museum, a collection of more than 1.5 million specimens that serves as a research and teaching resource for both scientists and students.
Chip Andrews talking to students

Sep 18, 2017

Student Entrepreneurs “Gain a Lot” from Andrews Launch Accelerator Experience

For three months this summer, four teams of NC State students and recent graduates participated as the second cohort in the Andrews Launch Accelerator, created to help select students at the university advance toward entrepreneurial success.

College of Engineering aerial view

Sep 18, 2017

DeSimone Named Recipient of 22nd Heinz Award

Joseph DeSimone, the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been named the recipient of the 22nd Heinz Award in the Technology, the Economy and Employment category.