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February 2018

Feb 13, 2018

Rooms with a View

Join NC State magazine for a tour of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, an extraordinary place made possible by private support.
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Feb 13, 2018

Caldwell Fellows Finalists Announced

Sixty NC State first-year students have been selected to participate in the Caldwell Fellows Selection Day coming up Saturday, Feb. 17.

Sophia Stoddard and Tyler Smith

Feb 13, 2018

First Library Leaders Scholarships Awarded

The NCSU Libraries named Sophia Stoddard and Tyler Smith as the winners of the first Library Leaders Scholarships. Recognizing exemplary contributions to the libraries by current students, the $2,500 awards come from the Library Leaders Scholarship Endowment. The goal of the endowment is to encourage students to consider pursuing advanced degrees in library science.

Feb 13, 2018

Collaboration Focuses on Sustainable Tourism in Bogotá, Colombia

A chance encounter between colleagues interested in combining design with social entrepreneurship and tourism led to the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve Project, a collaboration between NC State and the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (UJTL). Tim Wallace, NC State associate professor and applied anthropologist, advanced the project thanks to a 2015 Internationalization Seed Grant awarded through a program facilitated by the Office of Global Engagement and the University Standing Committee on International Programs.

Feb 13, 2018

Global Storyteller: Lotta Nevalainen

Lotta Nevalainen, a fifth-year senior from Finland, talks about her experiences as an NC State scholarship swimmer and a double major in international studies and communications.

Feb 13, 2018

Student Launches Composting Program in Campus Apartments

NC State student Kelsey Shevlin, a Caldwell Fellow and University Scholar, initiated a kitchen composting effort that has about 60 apartments in Wolf Village using compost jars. Residents fill the jars with food scraps including banana peels and apple cores, and empty them in a nearby outdoor composting dumpster. That material is transported to a composting facility for processing.

Feb 13, 2018

Goodnight Spotlight: Michael Cavenaugh

One of the first members of the Goodnight Scholars Transfer Program, Dunn native Michael Cavenaugh balances school and family as he pursues an NC State engineering degree.

Feb 6, 2018

CVM Alum Finds Calling, Gives Back

Nancy Rathbun-Ramsey achieved a childhood goal in 1994 when she graduated from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. Now the owner of a successful private veterinary practice in Maryland, the alumna and annual donor has pledged 10 percent of her estate to the college to acknowledge its role in her achievements.

Feb 6, 2018

CALS Faculty Focus: Fighting to Save Cassava

Dr. Jose “Trino” Ascencio-Ibanez, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, and his team are researching ways to combat viruses threatening cassava, one of the most important crops in Africa. Grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation-Partnerships for International Research and Education support their efforts.

Feb 6, 2018

Gates Foundation Grant Benefits Work Addressing Global Sanitation Issues

Dr. Francis de los Reyes of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering — who leads NC State's global water sanitation and hygiene faculty cluster — received $1.2 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve and test the market for a novel pit latrine emptying device, the Flexcrevator. The Flexcrevator is the newest generation of a series of prototypes, with the first design invented by NC State alumnus Tate Rogers.