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Ring Those Bells: A Carillon Q&A

2021

Poe Hall off the Court of North Carolina

May 31, 2021

College of Education Dean Mary Ann Danowitz to Step Down

After leading NC State’s College of Education since 2016, Dean Mary Ann Danowitz will return to the college’s faculty in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development effective Oct. 5, 2021. During Danowitz’s tenure, the college has experienced four straight years of growth in new student enrollment. This growth has been bolstered by successful fundraising partnerships, including new scholarships and funding to start the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research.
The copper wolves at Wolf Plaza

May 31, 2021

Labcorp to Sponsor Leadership in Technology Speakers Series

Labcorp has made a multi-year commitment to serve as the sole named sponsor of the Department of Computer Science’s popular Leadership in Technology Speaker Series. The three-year sponsorship commitment runs through the end of the 2023-24 academic year and is expected to feature five to six high-profile technology leaders each year.
Mitchell Moravec and Jackie Gonzalez

May 31, 2021

New Scholarship Established in Honor of First Latinx Student Body President

Alumnus Mitchell Moravec has established a new scholarship in honor of his friend and former student body president, Jackie Gonzalez. The scholarship will benefit NC State students who have demonstrated a commitment to the Latinx community and live in a rural North Carolina community.

erin wilkins with a dog in the court of north carolina

May 31, 2021

Four Years, Four Dogs, One Unforgettable Journey

Erin Wilkins focused on small animal surgery while studying at NC State and received the inaugural Samantha Lin Memorial Scholarship in 2020. In this first-person account, she shares how support from faculty and advisers also helped her raise four guide dogs while completing her DVM degree.
A great blue heron and turtles along a body of water

May 31, 2021

Ecology Wildlife Foundation Establishes Three Funds to Support Conservation Research

The Ecology Wildlife Foundation Fund has established three new funds that will support an undergraduate scholarship, graduate fellowship and distinguished professorship in the College of Natural Resources. The undergraduate scholarship and graduate fellowship will support students majoring in fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology. The distinguished professorship will support a professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, with preference given to faculty with active research in fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology focused on global change and wildlife conservation.
Park Scholars’ Class of 2021 Freshman Retreat

May 31, 2021

Celebrating the Achievements of Park Scholars’ Class of 2021

Throughout their four years at NC State, Park Scholars’ Class of 2021 embodied the program’s pillars of scholarship, leadership, service and character.
Durant Mangum and a bicycle

May 31, 2021

Goodnight Alumni Spotlight: Durant Mangum

From providing surgical assistance in Argentina to teaching English in Spain, there isn’t a corner of the world that Goodnight Scholars Program alumnus Durant Mangum ’17 doesn’t plan to reach. His current stop is Denmark, where he is finishing up his master’s degree and recently landed a dream job in engineering project consulting.
Associate teaching professor Olga Kleiankina, director of piano studies

May 31, 2021

Dr. Olga Kleiankina Receives Prestigious Undergraduate Teaching Award

Associate teaching professor Olga Kleiankina, director of piano studies, became the Department of Music’s first-ever recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award on April 13.
Becca Churchill

May 31, 2021

Why I Give: Becca Churchill ’21

One of Becca Churchill’s most formative experiences at NC State was a study-abroad trip made possible by two College of Education scholarships. Because of that, Churchill gives back to the college in order to help other students participate in similarly enriching college experiences.
Tom Gurin playing the Memorial Belltower carillon

May 24, 2021

Ring Those Bells: A Carillon Q&A

Learn more about NC State’s new 55-bell carillon — and carillons in general — from the first person to play it, carillonneur Tom Gurin.