Goodnight

Oct 21, 2024

Goodnight Spotlight: Estevan Zamora

Estevan Zamora, a member of the transfer class of 2025, shares how the Goodnight Scholars program offers a community and inspires him to give back. 

Oct 7, 2024

What Climate Change Means for Tourism

Erin Seekamp, Goodnight Distinguished Professor and director of the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative at NC State, along with Ann Savage of NC State Tourism Extension and Whitney Knollenberg and Bethany Cutts of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, has spent a number of years working with communities in the Outer Banks to help them identify actions they can take to build resilience against climate change. 

Oct 1, 2024

Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy Devin Kearns Joins National Advisory Board

NC State College of Education Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy Devin Kearns has been invited to join an advisory committee for the National Center for Education Statistics’ National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Part of the U.S. Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences, and often referred to as “the nation’s report card,” NAEP provides information about how students are performing academically across the country. 

Oct 1, 2024

NC State Receives NSF Grant to Establish the Center for Accelerated Photocatalysis

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that NC State will direct a center that deploys self-driving labs to accelerate discovery for reactions which use light as a catalyst in challenging chemical transformations. The NSF Center for Accelerated Photocatalysis (CAPs) is supported by an NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation Program Phase I grant, totaling $1.8 million over the next three years. 

Mar 11, 2024

Leaders Named to N.C. PSI Commercialization Council

The new council will inform the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s efforts to deliver to growers across North Carolina by helping provide access to transformational technologies and support tools. Stephen Markham, Goodnight Distinguished University Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the executive director of NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is co-chair of the council. 

Mar 1, 2024

Podcast: Goodnight Grad James B. Robertson

On this episode of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by James B. Robertson, a two-time NC State alumnus currently working on his doctorate in the College of Sciences, to discuss how private support from Dr. Jim and Mrs. Ann Goodnight has greatly furthered his academic career. 

Mar 1, 2024

Five Questions With Erin Seekamp and Chris Osburn of the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

Goodnight Distinguished Professor and Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (CRSI) Director Erin Seekamp and Professor and Director of the Blue Economy Innovation Program Chris Osburn discuss CRSI’s background, growth and how the initiative catalyzes transformation in a changing climate. 

Mar 1, 2024

Starting Strong

The N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s Startup Program provides expertise and resources to help emerging companies bring problem-solving agricultural technologies to the marketplace, including through a newly established commercialization advisory council. Steve Markham, Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurism, is co-director of the council. 

Nov 28, 2023

Autonomous Lab Discovers Best-In-Class Quantum Dot

Researchers have developed an autonomous system that can identify how to synthesize “best in class” materials for specific applications in hours or days rather than the years it might have taken humans. Felix Castellano, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair in Chemistry at NC State, is a co-author of the paper. 

Oct 18, 2023

Goodnight Spotlight: A Transfer Scholar With a Commitment to Nature

Michely is a member of the Goodnight Transfer Scholars class of 2026 for whom studying wildlife conservation is a way of contributing to something that she cares deeply about while also honoring her roots in Brazil.