Scholarships

Mar 27, 2018

A Coffee Shop with a Purpose

Four Park Scholars in the Class of 2021 have started pop-up shop 321 Coffee, staffed by individuals with intellectual and developmental disorders. According to Lindsay Wrege, CEO, the organization is meant "to provide meaningful volunteer work experience for adults with special needs, as well as a space for the NC State and Raleigh [populace] to interact with the special-needs community." 

Mar 27, 2018

Meet the New Fellows

The Caldwell Fellows Program has announced its Class of 2021 scholarship recipients. 

Mar 20, 2018

A Change in Direction

The Caldwell Fellows Program has prepared Jess Errico to lead and to shift her career path. 

Mar 20, 2018

AgPack Strong: Larry Coats

One of Larry Coats' high school teachers, Fred Manley, inspired him to switch to the college prep track and attend NC State – a decision that changed his life. Coats is now an intellectual property lawyer who recently established a scholarship to honor Manley. 

Mar 20, 2018

Park Scholar Lands Job with the Federal Reserve

Madeline Finnegan will continue her involvement with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York full-time after she graduates in May. Last summer, the NC State Park Scholar worked there as a summer research analyst, contributing as part of the financial intermediation team. 

Mar 20, 2018

Goodnight Spotlight: Emma Hall

For Emma Hall, a biological sciences major and member of the Transfer Class of 2019, being part of NC State's Goodnight Scholars Program means so much more than being a scholarship recipient. 

Mar 13, 2018

New Ag Ed Scholarship Honors Retired Teacher

A new scholarship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences will help juniors and seniors who want to be agricultural teachers but face financial or other obstacles. The scholarship was established by CALS alumnus Larry Coats and honors Fred William Manley, a 1959 graduate who devoted 41 years of his life to teaching. 

Mar 13, 2018

Osborne Scholarship Gives Grad Students Freedom to Focus

Five graduate students in the College of Textiles were recently awarded the Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Scholarship. Established by a gift from the Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Foundation, the scholarship helps recruit a competitive and diverse group of grad students – and helps recipients focus on their studies instead of worrying about how to make ends meet. 

Mar 13, 2018

These Floating Islands May Improve Water Quality

Park Scholar Dani Winter loves when it rains on campus, because more rain means more data. Since last summer, Winter and fellow NC State student Bryan Maxwell have been using an on-campus research site to evaluate whether floating islands of plants can improve stormwater quality. 

Mar 13, 2018

College of Sciences: What Matters to Us

The college – under the leadership of its new dean, Chris McGahan, and about to mark its fifth anniversary – has ambitious goals, including preparing a new generation of well-rounded NC State scientists to make extraordinary contributions that impact the world. Read about how donor support is helping change the face of science.