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10 Years Later

Tim Peeler

Jul 2, 2025

Chancellor Howell’s Why

NC State’s newly named chancellor, Kevin Howell, has enrolled or onboarded at the university on four separate occasions. Why does he keep coming back? To make the university that prepared him for big opportunities even better. 
Will Wade in his office

May 21, 2025

Getting To Know New Men’s Basketball Coach Wade

For nearly 4,000 consecutive days, new NC State men’s basketball coach Will Wade has awakened early, laced up a pair of running shoes and gone for a daily jog, somewhere between 1 to 4 miles. He keeps up with his 10-year-plus streak through a friend and fellow runner who serves as his accountability coach, carefully recording… 
Chancellor Kevin Howell speaks with people at an employee appreciation event on Stafford Commons

May 7, 2025

Howell Takes the Helm

The newest leader of the Wolfpack, Chancellor Kevin Howell took the reins of the state’s largest university on Monday, becoming the third NC State graduate to lead his alma mater. Howell plans a quiet transition between now and when students return in August for the beginning of the fall semester. 
The front exterior of Hill Library

Apr 30, 2025

D.H. Hill Jr. Library: Closed for Summer

A long-planned replacement of two large electrical systems will shut down the biggest library on main campus beginning on Monday, May 5, through Aug. 1. All services will continue at satellite branches and the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus. 
Breon Pass goes up for a jump shot against Louisville in the 2024 ACC Tournament

Apr 24, 2025

An Inspirational Pass

NC State men’s basketball senior Breon Pass overcame a difficult loss as a teenager before he came to play for the Wolfpack. Four years later, he remembers his inspiration for earning a degree in sport management. 
Gary Birdsong, AKA the Brickyard Preacher, addresses a crowd of students on NC State's campus in 1995.

Apr 16, 2025

Goodbye to a Brickyard Preacher

By now, Rev. Gary Birdsong has found his answers. For more than half a century, at NC State and other colleges across the nation, Birdsong was an evangelical arbiter of damnation, righteousness and repentance for unsuspecting college students and an argumentative punching bag for faculty. A native of Halifax County and a longtime post office boxholder… 
Will Wade stands between Chancellor Randy Woodson and Athletic Director Boo Corrigan while holding an NC State basketball jersey

Mar 25, 2025

Confident Wade Introduced as Men’s Basketball Coach

The 42-year-old native of Nashville was introduced Tuesday as the 22nd coach in the history of the men’s program and vowed to be successful immediately. This will be his fifth head coaching job at an NCAA Division I program. 
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.