Tim Peeler

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. 

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… 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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 …… 

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. 

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… 

Nov 13, 2024

High-Class Entertainment With Friends

For 34 seasons, NC State’s groundbreaking Friends of the College series brought international performances to Reynolds Coliseum.  

Nov 11, 2024

Reynolds Coliseum: 75 Years of Being ‘Haunted With Greatness’

NC State’s on-campus arena opened 75 years ago with a basketball game between NC State and Washington and Lee University on Dec. 2, 1949. It has been in near-continuous service ever since.