Impact

Nov 19, 2024

Podcast: Winning the Pantry Bowl, With Stevie Kimmet

On this episode of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by Stevie Kimmet, director of NC State’s Pack Essentials program, to discuss how donors provide for our Pack members in need — especially through a fun competition held with UNC-Chapel Hill each year.

Allin Foulkrod and Ellen Klingler hug as Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Brian Sischo (right) announces the creation of the Foulkrod-Klingler Endowment. Barbara (second from right) and Allin Foulkrod created the endowment to support staff development opportunities for NC State’s special events team, of which Klingler is the leader.

Nov 13, 2024

A Truly Special Event

Allin (’92) and Barbara Foulkrod have created an endowment to benefit staff development for the university’s special events team.

Nov 13, 2024

Supporting Hope

Longtime College of Veterinary Medicine supporter Art Aikin and his wife, Gail, make annual gifts supporting a wide range of activities that help the college make advances in care. They also created a scholarship in the College of Natural Resources.

Nov 13, 2024

Goodnight Spotlight: Kata Koloszar

Kata Koloszar was motivated to apply to the Goodnight Scholarships program because it offered more than financial support — it provided a community, and that is what she has found at NC State.

Nov 13, 2024

Dallas Herring Lecture Celebrates 10 Years of Impacting Community College Education

The 2024 Dallas Herring Lecture, scheduled for Nov. 19, will feature Russell Lowery-Hart, chancellor of Austin Community College District, delivering a speech entitled “Transforming Higher Education: Loving Our Students to Success Through Intentional, Courageous and Systemic Leadership.”

Nov 13, 2024

Doctoral Student Jayla Moody Marshall Receives 2024 Melvin C. Terrell Scholarship

Jayla Moody Marshall, a student in the Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development higher education opportunity, equity and justice concentration, has been named a 2024 Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Scholarship recipient. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc. to graduate students who are pursuing their master’s or doctoral degree in student affairs or higher education administration.

Melissa Armistead putting a mask on a mannequin head.

Nov 13, 2024

Wilson College Doctoral Student Recognized With $10,000 Scholarship for Cutting-Edge Research

Four and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, critical research that began at NC State amid lockdowns and closures is, in many ways, still paying off — and recently led to a prestigious award for a Wilson College of Textiles doctoral student.

CRISPR expert Rodolphe Barrangou (left) in the lab with Echo Pan, who earned a Ph.D. in functional genomics from NC State last fall.

Nov 13, 2024

Future-Proofing Food and Agriculture: NC State’s Genome Editing Center

Rodolphe Barrangou, a pioneer in CRISPR technology, Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in probiotics research and leader of the CRISPR lab in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, discusses the potential and applications of genome editing that are being made possible through the new Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture based in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Nov 13, 2024

Remembering Bill Grant

William Cullen “Bill” Grant, who taught biological sciences at NC State, died on Oct. 13, 2024, at the age of 80. In 2019, the William C. Grant Scholarship was established at NC State in his honor. The fund provides aid for students, particularly first-generation scholars, pursuing degrees in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Nov 13, 2024

Hannah Orlowski ’19 Joins the Dean’s Young Alumni Leadership Council

As a passionate textile engineering alumna with a love for networking, Hannah Orlowski is thrilled to returning to NC State as a new member of the Dean’s Young Alumni Leadership Council. Since joining the council, her enthusiastic participation, along with the entire council’s leadership, has directly benefited the Wilson College of Textiles’ success in alumni engagement and fundraising in partnership with the North Carolina Textile Foundation.