News

Sep 14, 2016

Missing the Mark on Mosquitoes

In a new Science article, Jennifer Kuzma, the Goodnight-North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Distinguished Professor in Social Sciences in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), argues that federal authorities are missing an opportunity to revise outdated regulatory processes not fit for modern innovations in biotechnology.

Sep 13, 2016

New Scholarship Benefits Wolfpack Families

NC State’s Employee Dependent’s Tuition Scholarship has distributed a quarter of a million dollars in tuition grants to 127 students for the 2016-17 academic year.

Sep 9, 2016

PCOM Professors Receive Innovation in Accounting Education Award

Frank Buckless, KPMG Professor of Accounting and head of the Department of Accounting; Kathy Krawczyk, Dixon Hughes Professor of Accounting and director of the Jenkins Master of Accounting program; and Scott Showalter, professor of practice in the accounting department, recently received an Innovation in Accounting Education Award from the American Accounting Association.

Sep 9, 2016

Cultivating the STEM Professionals of Tomorrow

A pilot faculty and industry mentoring program is connecting current STEM professionals across the Triangle with Goodnight Scholars who aspire to similar careers.

Sep 9, 2016

Gates Foundation Grant Fuels NC State Study of Devastating Crop Disease

An ongoing NC State partnership to defeat a disease of cassava, a key African food crop, got a boost recently with a $2.15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Linda Hanley-Bowdoin, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, is principal investigator.

Sep 9, 2016

Engineering Meets Political Science

Thanks to the Jenny Chang Public Policy Endowment Award, Park Scholar Richa Patel spent the summer as an intern in the State Department, researching how and why certain kinds of "disruptive" technology could impact U.S. foreign policy.

Sep 2, 2016

A Family Legacy of Philanthropy

The Kenan family’s generosity continues to make a major impact on NC State.

Sep 2, 2016

Defining a Cultural Heritage Tourism Site

Brandon Smith, a Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management Departmental Scholarship recipient, decided to try his hand at undergraduate research. Now, the sport management major might have found his calling.

Aug 30, 2016

A Summer of Infectious Research

Goodnight Scholar Brinkley Raynor spent the summer studying bacterial biofilms at the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology in Wuerzburg, Germany.

Aug 29, 2016

Mr. Sweet Potato’s Legacy

North Carolina’s sweet potato growers are building an endowment at NC State to ensure that a most successful university-industry partnership endures.