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Embracing the Land-Grant Mission

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The full group of Alternative Service Break volunteers

Mar 19, 2025

Wrapping Up ASB in Western N.C.

In their final days of recovery work, NC State students participating in an Alternative Service Break trip to western North Carolina spent time with individuals and aid organizations that have been vital in helping the area recover from Hurricane Helene. 
A group of students and other volunteers admire the view from the top of Grandfather Mountain in western North Carolina.

Mar 19, 2025

Participants Reflect on Service Experience in Western N.C.

In their own words, Wolfpack volunteers describe the life-altering impacts of their spring 2025 Alternative Service Break trip to western North Carolina.  
Banner Elk Elementary School principal Justin Carver speaks with NC State students at a community center in western North Carolina.

Mar 12, 2025

ASB Participants Hear About Helene’s Looming Crisis for Schoolkids

An Avery County elementary school principal shares his thoughts about the storm’s lingering mental health effects on Helene’s youngest survivors. 

Mar 11, 2025

Restoring Hope — and a Little Color — to a Family-Owned Enterprise

Last September, Suzanne and Jared Garland watched their family-owned campground and their livelihoods be swept away by the flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. With some help from community volunteers, an NC State Alternative Service Break team and some landscape architecture students, they hope to reopen their sole means of income by Memorial Day. 
An overlook toward the mountains in western North Carolina

Mar 10, 2025

A Service-Oriented Spring Break in Western N.C.

PLUMTREE, N.C. — NC State graduates John and Lisa Vance had never organized a service trip for college students before, even though they laid the foundation for their 17-year marriage and family of six children during their own college days, more than two decades ago. Still, the couple — who met while preparing to go on… 
Chancellor Woodson addresses the Faculty and Staff senates

Mar 5, 2025

Some Parting Words From Chancellor Woodson

As his tenure as NC State’s 14th leader winds down, Chancellor Randy Woodson offered some parting words to the Faculty and Staff senates in a joint session at Witherspoon Student Center on Tuesday. 
Leafless trees in a Western North Carolina apple orchard in the winter.

Feb 26, 2025

Blooms of Spring Kick Off Helene Recovery

North Carolina’s apple crop, the seventh largest in the nation, suffered a severe blow in the aftermath of September’s Hurricane Helene, losing about 20% of its annual production. Growers are now preparing for the next phase of recovery as spring approaches. 
Wajeha Barakat and her husband Ahmed Farawi

Feb 11, 2025

10 Years Later

In the aftermath of one of the worst days in NC State history — a shooting that claimed the lives of three young Muslim alums — the seeds of healing have been spread by the Our Three Winners Scholarship. 
Joe Thuney (center, number 54) gets set for a play during a game at NC State.

Feb 5, 2025

A Wolfpack Legend of 5 Rings?

Former NC State player Joe Thuney, an offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, is playing in his sixth Super Bowl. If the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in Super Bowl LIX, he will become just the third player in NFL history to win five or more titles. 
Athletic director Boo Corrigan presents Debbie Antonelli with a banner that will be displayed in the Ring of Honor at Reynolds Coliseum.

Jan 16, 2025

Antonelli’s Name To Be Lifted Into Ring of Honor

The former NC State basketball player and groundbreaking announcer will have her name added to the rafters of Reynolds Coliseum at a halftime ceremony during Thursday night’s Pittsburgh game. 
Wildfires rage through Jim Yocum's neighborhood in the Palisades.

Jan 15, 2025

The Wild Ride of Preparing for Wildfires

Over the past week, Southern California wildfires have created an eerily similar natural disaster to the floods caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina in September. 
Jimmy Carter speaks at the Emerging Issues Forum at NC State in 1991.

Jan 8, 2025

Carter’s Global Vision From NC State’s Campus

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 in December, was the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Emerging Issues Forum on Feb. 14, 1991, his only appearance at NC State. 
People in the stands of Reynolds Coliseum for the first basketball game in 1949

Dec 17, 2024

Memories of Reynolds

A Philharmonic Roadtrip I had an opportunity to see the New York Philharmonic back in 1970 and jumped at the chance to go. The only problem was the concert was in Raleigh and I was in Boone. I was a high school sophomore with a love for classical music but had no driver’s license …… 
Lance Fenderson with his race car

Dec 11, 2024

An Open Book With an Open Throttle

Lance Fenderson’s racing career came to a halt his junior year of high school. Now, however, as he prepares to graduate from NC State with his degree in mechanical engineering, he’s going wide open on professional racetracks. 
Chancellor Randy Woodson poses with a student on NC State's campus during move-in activities

Nov 20, 2024

Embracing the Land-Grant Mission

Chancellor Randy Woodson and his wife, Susan, were sitting in Lynah Rink at a Cornell vs. Harvard hockey game in the late 1970s when he started hearing the typical jeers from visiting Crimson fans, denigrating his new school’s history as New York’s “Cow College.” Over the next four years, the season-ticket-holder Woodsons, having just graduated…