Students Receive Degrees At NC State’s Fall Commencement

North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson conferred 3,157 degrees on 3,018 graduating students when the university held its 2010 Fall Commencement on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

Candidates for degrees were from 94 North Carolina counties, 33 other states or U.S. territories and 41 foreign countries. NC State holds graduation ceremonies each year in the spring and fall.

Woodson conferred two honorary degrees on behalf of NC State. The degree recipients were commencement speaker Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, and Dr. Deanna Bowling Marcum, associate librarian with the Library of Congress.

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NOTE: The names of NC State’s December 2010 degree candidates are not attached to this release. You can obtain them on the Web at: http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/guides/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 Web 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.

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