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Sep 28, 2021

After Finding a Throat Tumor, Special Fund Means More Life for Phife

With help from Petco Love and the Blue Buffalo Cancer Treatment Fund, Bryce and Keischa Williams will have more time to enjoy life with Phife, their boxer-Australian shepherd mix.

Sep 28, 2021

The World Comes Home to NC State

After a tumultuous 2020-21 school year, NC State Global is preparing to send more students to study abroad, welcoming international students to campus, meeting face-to-face (with masks) for global events and learning together again. Study abroad scholarships have benefited greatly from the Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign.

Sep 28, 2021

Using Liquid Metal To Turn Motion Into Electricity — Even Underwater

Researchers at NC State have created a soft and stretchable device that converts movement into electricity and can work in wet environments. The researchers, who include Michael Dickey, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, have two related projects under way: one aimed at using the technology to power wearable devices by increasing the harvester’s power output, and the other for evaluating how this technology could be used to harvest wave power from the ocean.

Sep 28, 2021

Ph.D. Candidate Camilo Parada Wins Prestigious Award

Camilo Humberto Parada-Rojas, an NC State Ph.D. candidate in plant pathology and one of the first graduate students accepted into the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows Program, received a $10,000 Storkan-Hanes-McCaslin Foundation Award, given annually to an outstanding graduate student working with soilborne diseases. Parada is studying genes that could provide resistance to sweetpotato diseases, including the pathogen that causes black rot in sweetpotato.

Sep 21, 2021

3 NC State Alumni Receive Watauga Medal

The university recently awarded its highest nonacademic honor to Glenn Futrell, Suzanne Gordon and Bob Mattocks.

Sep 21, 2021

Opportunity to Explore

Elena Williamson is the first recipient of the Rebecca Leonard Scholarship Endowment in Exploratory Studies. The new scholarship is named after Rebecca Leonard, an associate professor emerita and a founder of the Exploratory Studies Program.

Sep 21, 2021

College of Design Secures First Distinguished Professorship with Support From the Goodnights

The College of Design has named Wayne Place as its inaugural Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Architecture. The professorship was made possible by a gift from longtime NC State supporters Dr. Jim and Mrs. Ann Goodnight.

Sep 21, 2021

Glen Raven Donates $250K to Wilson College of Textiles

Glen Raven, Inc., a global textile company based near Burlington, made a recent gift to the Wilson College of Textiles’ Pioneer Scholarship Program, as well as the Dean’s Textile Innovation Fund. The scholarship program supports North Carolina students studying textiles from rural towns and communities in the state, supporting a bustling future for both Pack graduates and the textile industry.

Sep 21, 2021

Help Feed the Pack

The Feed the Pack food pantry has recently seen a decline in food donations and would like to encourage the NC State community to help replenish its shelves. In August, the pantry distributed 9,263 pounds of food over 657 visits.

Sep 21, 2021

Meurs Named NC State Veterinary Medicine Interim Dean

Kathryn Meurs, senior associate dean for research and graduate studies and the Randall B. Terry Jr. Distinguished Professor of Comparative Medicine, has been named the interim dean of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. Meurs officially begins her term as interim dean on Jan. 18, 2022.