March 2018

Mar 13, 2018

Osborne Scholarship Gives Grad Students Freedom to Focus

Five graduate students in the College of Textiles were recently awarded the Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Scholarship. Established by a gift from the Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Foundation, the scholarship helps recruit a competitive and diverse group of grad students – and helps recipients focus on their studies instead of worrying about how to make ends meet. 

Mar 13, 2018

These Floating Islands May Improve Water Quality

Park Scholar Dani Winter loves when it rains on campus, because more rain means more data. Since last summer, Winter and fellow NC State student Bryan Maxwell have been using an on-campus research site to evaluate whether floating islands of plants can improve stormwater quality. 

Mar 13, 2018

College of Sciences: What Matters to Us

The college – under the leadership of its new dean, Chris McGahan, and about to mark its fifth anniversary – has ambitious goals, including preparing a new generation of well-rounded NC State scientists to make extraordinary contributions that impact the world. Read about how donor support is helping change the face of science. 

Mar 13, 2018

NC State Online MBA Shines in Financial Times Ranking

Financial Times once again placed the Jenkins Professional Online MBA program among the top 20 worldwide, at No. 17, in the publication’s 2018 Best Online MBA programs ranking. This is up one spot from 2017, the first time the NC State Poole College of Management program was included in the annual list. 

Mar 13, 2018

New Goodnight Scholars Program Promo Video Debuts

The Goodnight Scholars Program's new promotional video is lighthearted and sentimental – with its share of puns. What does it mean to be a Goodnight Scholar? Depends on whom you ask. 

Mar 13, 2018

Textiles Research Open House Brings Innovation to the Forefront

On April 18, the NC State College of Textiles will host the 2018 Textiles Research Open House. Organized by the Textile Association of Graduate Students with support provided by The VF Foundation, the event aims to enable students to open a dialogue and establish networks with those involved in textiles and related industries. 

Mar 6, 2018

NC State Honors Two with Prestigious Watauga Medal

William K. “Bill” Collins Sr. and Benjamin P. “Ben” Jenkins III named the 2018 recipients of the Watauga Medal, NC State University’s highest nonacademic honor. 

Mar 6, 2018

Full Circle

Bringing Others Along. From his days as an RA and student body president, to his investment in the Caldwell Fellows, Tony Caravano has always believed in the NC State community. 

Mar 6, 2018

A Family of Fellows

The Caldwell Fellows is much more than a “scholarship program” for sophomore Julia O’Brien, who is on the move in 2018. 

Mar 6, 2018

$4.5 Million Bequest to Benefit NC State’s Applied Math Program

An anonymous couple has made a $4.5 million bequest to the College of Sciences Foundation to benefit students and faculty in applied mathematics. The gift commitment, one of the largest ever received by the college, will endow a distinguished faculty chair, an undergraduate scholarship fund and a graduate fellowship in the Department of Mathematics.