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Jun 3, 2025

Former Wolfpack Player Sticking With the Pack

Former standout student-athlete Kayla Jones has been promoted from graduate manager to director of player personnel for the NC State women’s basketball team.

Jun 3, 2025

New Endowment Supports Libraries Open Knowledge Center

The Betsy Etheridge Brown Open Education Resource and Pedagogy Endowment will provide support for the work of the Open Knowledge Center at the NC State University Libraries, particularly the center’s Open Pedagogy PIT STOP and its development of the UNC System’s Open Pedagogy and AI Faculty Learning Community.

Jun 3, 2025

Kelliher Named Roberts and Mikhail Distinguished Chair in Plant Genome Editing

Timothy Kelliher will join NC State this July as the Roberts and Mikhail Distinguished Chair in Plant Genome Editing of the Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture (GEC). Integrated with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ state-of-the-art N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and its expertise in genome editing and CRISPR, the GEC is poised to revolutionize agriculture.

Jun 3, 2025

Joy of Education Celebrated at College of Education’s 2025 Scholarships Banquet

The College of Education held its annual scholarship banquet this spring celebrating the transformative power of education and the generosity of those who support it.

Jun 3, 2025

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Backs Six Budding Inventions

Before retiring this year, Chancellor Randy Woodson announced for the final time the awardees of the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, which he founded in 2010.

Jun 3, 2025

Microcleaners to Catch Microplastics

NC State researchers have shown that an integrated system leveraging unique materials could be used to capture and remove microplastics from bodies of water. Orlin Velev, the S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the paper’s corresponding author.

May 27, 2025

Poole College’s Ram Janakiraman Receives New Distinguished Professorship

Ram Janakiraman, a professor of marketing analytics in the Poole College of Management, has been honored with a distinguished professorship. Janakiraman is the first R. Randall Rollins Distinguished Professor, bringing the total number of distinguished professors in Poole College to 15, including Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Dean Frank Buckless.

May 27, 2025

Johnston Named ASCE Distinguished Member

David W. Johnston, Edward I. Weisiger Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This high honor — only 12 of the group’s 160,000 members can be recognized in this way each year — acknowledges Johnston’s impactful contributions to construction engineering research, education and licensure.

May 27, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Mathews Medal Recipients

The Mathews Medal recognizes graduating seniors who have created a lasting legacy at NC State. Among this year’s recipients are several scholarship recipients who were able to learn, grow and succeed during their time on campus through the power of philanthropy.

May 27, 2025

Triangle Finnish Association Honors Baliga

The Triangle Finnish Association and Duke University recently hosted a special event in honor of B. Jayant Baliga, the Progress Energy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State. Baliga earned Finland’s 2024 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention, development and commercialization of an energy-saving semiconductor switch he invented in 1980 as a researcher at General Electric.