Program Support

Sep 28, 2021

Globally Recognized Agricultural Leader to Become First PSI Director

Adrian Percy, a world leader in the field of agriculture, is set to become the first executive director of the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative: a world-class research and innovation effort that is poised to solve some of the world’s grandest agricultural issues and advance the state’s economy. The initiative’s home, the Plant Sciences Building, is under construction on NC State’s Centennial Campus, thanks to the support of donors and a statewide bond referendum. 

Sep 28, 2021

Park Scholarships Welcomes Meghan Hunt

The Park Scholarships program is pleased to welcome Meghan Hunt to its staff. As the assistant director of development, a position that supports efforts to fully endow the program, Hunt will plan, organize and implement strategies to increase engagement and annual giving. 

Sep 28, 2021

Wilson College Donors Step Up Big During COVID Crisis

Michael Ward, executive director of the North Carolina Textile Foundation, says donors “were at their best when we needed them most” to describe their response to the financial challenges that confronted the Wilson College of Textiles in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis. 

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 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

Envisioning Excellence to the Belk Center

With more than $10 million in funding from the John M. Belk Endowment in 2018, the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research has allowed the College of Education to further the preparation of future community college presidents, provide ongoing leadership development to community college executives and build capacity for evidence-based decision making and applied research — in support of all 58 of North Carolina’s community colleges. 

Sep 21, 2021

Deeply Rooted

Richard and Marcia Reich celebrate their ties to family and extension through support of the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative and NC State’s Plant Sciences Building. The Richard C. & Marcia H. Reich Study Room is named in their family’s honor. 

Sep 13, 2021

Virtual MLK Project Expands Its Reach To Other Settings, Users

NC State’s Virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Project uses innovative technology to recreate the civil rights leader’s never-recorded 1960 speech, “Fill Up the Jails” — and transform how the public interacts with his message. Now, the project team led by communication professor Victoria Gallagher is expanding its reach to additional audiences. The impetus for the new educational component stems from the success of a pilot program the team began last year with faculty at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. The Department of Communication helped fund the pilot through its Faculty Grant Development Fund, established by a donation from communication alumnus John Ward. 

Sep 13, 2021

The K-12 Digital Design Lab: Thriving Through Adaptation

Thanks to funding from NC Modernist Houses, an organization dedicated to connecting the public with design resources in North Carolina, the College of Design’s Design Lab field trip program has been thriving since 2013. Design Camp, which supports a few of its attendees each year through the Marvin and Cindy Malecha Dream Scholarship Fund, and Digital Design Camp are other programs through which the college introduces its disciplines to young people.