Students Receive Degrees at NC State’s May 2009 Commencement
North Carolina State University conferred 4,294 degrees when the university held its 2009 Spring Commencement on Saturday, May 9, at the RBC Center in Raleigh.
John Seely Brown, independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation and a visiting scholar and advisor to the provost at the University of Southern California, delivered the commencement address. Candidates for degrees were from all 100 North Carolina counties, 34 other states or United States territories and 42 foreign countries. NC State holds graduation ceremonies each year in the spring and fall.
The university also conferred honorary degrees on behalf of NC State to Sarita E. Brown, founding president of Excelencia in Education and a leader in the effort to raise academic achievement and opportunity for low-income and minority students, and Dr. Wayne Fuller, emeritus distinguished professor in statistics and economics at Iowa State University.
The names of NC State’s May 2009 degree candidates are available on the Web at www.ncsu.edu/registrar/publications/graduation/index.html.
If a graduate’s hometown address is not listed under the appropriate county, it is because the graduate originally established residency in the county listed, but has changed his or her mailing address for grades. Also, students with privacy blocks on their personal information are not included in the Web list.
Graduates’ fields of study are indicated by two- or three-letter codes. Students with more than one code earned degrees in more than one field. You can find a list of the codes – and the fields of study they designate – on the Web at: www.ncsu.edu/registrar/curricula/index.html.
