Students Receive Degrees At NC State’s Fall Commencement

North Carolina State University Chancellor James H. Woodward conferred 3,013 degrees on 2,881 graduating students when the university held its 2009 Fall Commencement on Saturday, Dec. 19, at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

Candidates for degrees were from 89 North Carolina counties, 30 other states or U.S. territories and 35 foreign countries. NC State holds graduation ceremonies each year in the spring and fall.

Woodward conferred two honorary degrees on behalf of NC State. The degree recipients were Dr. Jack Ward Thomas, former head of the U.S. Forest Service and career conservationist, and G. Smedes York, Raleigh’s former mayor and NC State alumnus.

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NOTE: The names of NC State’s December 2009 degree candidates are not attached to this release. You can obtain them on the Web at www.ncsu.edu/registrar/publications/graduation/index.html.

If you do not have access to the Web, call NC State News Services at 919/515-3470 and we will mail, fax or e-mail you the list of graduates for your area. To access the names of local students from the Web site, log onto the address listed above, click on North Carolina and then use the drop-down list to find the counties within your coverage area. This will take to you an alphabetical listing of graduates.

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, the names of 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. Click on either undergraduate or graduate curricula in the right-hand column.

If you experience problems with this format, please call us at 919/515-3470 or e-mail us at newstips@ncsu.edu.