Students Receive Degrees At NC State’s Spring Commencement

North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson conferred 4,566 degrees on 4,299 graduating students when the university held its 2010 Spring Commencement on Saturday, May 15, at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

Candidates for degrees were from 98 North Carolina counties, 38 other states or U.S. territories and 40 foreign countries. NC State holds graduation ceremonies each year in the spring and fall.

Emmy award-winning journalist Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address. Woodson conferred honorary degrees on behalf of NC State to Rose, Dr. I. King Jordan, the first deaf president of Gallaudet University, and Dr. William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

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NOTE: The names of NC State’s May 2010 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 “graduation list” under the “published lists” heading, then 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.

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