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2017

May 8, 2017

Pullen Society Inducts New Members

NC State University welcomes 50 new individuals and couples into the R. Stanhope Pullen Society, which recognizes those who support the university’s future through deferred gifts such as charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, life insurance and will bequests.

May 8, 2017

New Park Scholars Named

The Park Scholars program announces the 39 members of its Class of 2021.

May 8, 2017

NC State MAC Fellowship Program Draws Top Candidates

The Jenkins MAC Fellowship Program, created in 2005 by the Poole College of Management's Department of Accounting in partnership with sponsoring CPA firms and the NC State Graduate School, has been drawing top candidates into the master of accounting program.

May 8, 2017

Annual Expo Recognizes Global Award Recipients

International Affairs recognizes faculty and staff as leaders in international education and with Outstanding Global Engagement Awards and Jackson Rigney International Service Awards, and recognizes students for receiving the Jackson Rigney Study Abroad Scholarship.

May 8, 2017

Geneticist Mackay Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair

The College of Sciences announced the honor for Trudy Mackay, a prominent geneticist who joined the NC State faculty in 1987. Her groundbreaking work focuses on the genetic and environmental factors affecting variation in complex traits, characteristics that can be tied to one or more genes in an organism. Her signature project is the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, a collection of more than 200 fruit fly lines that hundreds of researchers around the world use in their work.

May 8, 2017

Physicist Ade Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor

The College of Sciences announced the honor for Harald Ade, a prominent physicist who joined the NC State faculty in 1992. He has received international attention for his interdisciplinary work on understanding the physics of organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes, creating novel devices, and inventing and using new characterization methods with an emphasis on applications to organic devices.

May 8, 2017

Student Spotlight: Hall Aspires to Lend a Hand for N.C. Agriculture

Lane Michael Hall knows what he want to do and is busy getting it done. A junior in NC State’s soil science program, Lane came to the university as a transfer student from a community college. He is a recipient of the Marion and Jane Dilday Scholarship.

May 8, 2017

Studying the Complexities of Tribal Sovereignty in North Carolina

The Park Scholars Class of 2020 explored the obstacles that leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Lumbee Tribe face in exercising their rights of tribal sovereignty and self-determination during a learning lab program.

May 8, 2017

Endowment Helps Prepare Students for Capstones

Donor Marilyn Blanton established the Richard L. Blanton University Honors Program (UHP) Capstone Award Endowment, which supports students as they prepare highly significant captstone projects that demonstrate in-depth, practical understanding of their major. Blanton also provides generous annual support to the Fellowship Advising Office, benefiting, for example, students participating in undergraduate research opportunities and the University Honors and Shelton Leadership Programs.

May 2, 2017

New Program Addresses the Business of Farming

The new Executive Farm Management Program aims to help North Carolina farmers lead complex organizations and compete on a global scale. The program was funded in part by a grant from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission and with gifts from farmers Johnny Barnes of Spring Hope and Richard Anderson of Nashville.