Tim Peeler

Sep 18, 2024

A Pirate (Captain) Looks at 40

Whil Piavis (Mechanical Engineering ’07), AKA “The Pirate Captain,” made international headlines when he and his “Scurvy Crew” hijacked the 2005 student body presidential election. Ironically, he is now a cybersecurity expert. 

Sep 11, 2024

Planning To Succeed by Succeeding To Plan

One of Chancellor Randy Woodson’s first orders to his cabinet, staff and faculty when he took office in 2010 was to develop a robust, university-wide strategic plan. The groans were deafening. 

Aug 28, 2024

Campus Characters: The Jogging Mathematics Professor

Longtime NC State mathematics professor Robert Ramsay made national and international headlines for his jogging encounter with Wolfpack head coach Lou Holtz, a problem the magician coach could never solve. 

Aug 14, 2024

A Chancellor’s First Day

Randy Woodson’s first day in Holladay Hall kicked off a 14-year tenure of change and advancement at a historic land-grant institution that was fraying around the edges. As he prepares to retire, here’s a look back at what campus was like when he took over.  

Aug 7, 2024

‘History’s Most Significant Man,’ Remembered

Speech professor and director of forensics Edwin Paget made some outlandish claims and suggestions during his 86 years, during which he gave himself the title of “Modern Michelangelo” and “History’s Most Significant Man.” He also documented a record 985 hikes to the top of 14,110-foot Pikes Peak in Colorado. 

Aug 7, 2024

NC State Olympians Sparkle in Paris

Former Wolfpack athletes Katharine Berkoff and Diana Shnaider won gold and silver medals in women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis. They are the first women with Wolfpack ties to earn medals since Joan Benoit won gold in the inaugural women’s marathon in 1984. 

Jul 22, 2024

‘We Stole March’

Check out how NC State’s men’s and women’s basketball coaches are spending their summer, following both teams’ journeys to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament.  

Jul 19, 2024

A Baker’s Dozen Olympians

NC State will send 12 future, current and former student-athletes to the 2024 Paris Olympics. In addition, the Wolfpack will send two coaches as part of the U.S. men’s and women’s swimming teams. 

Jul 19, 2024

Woodson’s Work Is His Legacy

Chancellor Randy Woodson has announced his intention to retire by June 30, 2025, kicking off an era of transition for a campus that has thrived under his leadership. Woodson is the third-longest-serving leader in university history. 

Jul 17, 2024

Former Football Coach Kiffin Dies at 84

Monte Kiffin, head coach of the Wolfpack from 1980-82, is remembered for his off-field antics and his legacy as one of the most brilliant defensive minds in professional football history. 

Jun 13, 2024

Leaders of the Pack

NC State baseball returns to the College World Series for the fourth time in school history and the second time in four years. The Wolfpack begins play Saturday at 2 p.m. against Kentucky in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Jun 12, 2024

An Infrequent Visitor

Anaël Symůnková has only been to NC State’s main campus three times since she first came to work at NC State in 2008. Every time she visits, there is a whole new world of Wolfpack for the communications and marketing manager for the NC State European Center in Prague to see. 

May 28, 2024

Hoop, She Did It Again

Abby Lampe, a fourth-generation NC State graduate, repeated her title in the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake on Monday near Gloucester, England. 

May 22, 2024

Let It Bee

Horticultural science professor Danesha Seth Carley helped reintroduce native plants to the Pinehurst No. 2 golf course for its 2014 men’s and women’s U.S. Open championships. Since then, she’s focused on bringing bees back to Donald Ross’s original design for the course. 

May 1, 2024

MacMillan To Laud Graduates’ Resilience

Nobel laureate David MacMillan, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2021, will address NC State’s spring graduating class of some 6,600 students Saturday at PNC Arena.