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Jan 22, 2025

Meet the Finalists for NC State’s Next Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

The university community is invited to attend open forums with the candidates, followed by Q&A sessions. 

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. 

People sit in lawn chairs and watch an Artist Notes performance at Centennial Campus.

Jan 8, 2025

Top 10 Things To Do at Centennial Campus This Spring

From concerts to outdoor activities to networking events, there is something for everyone to enjoy. 

Dec 20, 2024

Fostering Small Business Success in North Carolina and Beyond

Byron Hicks’ entrepreneurial journey sparked early — selling Christmas cards and flower seeds door-to-door. At thirteen, he took on a newspaper route, learning the basics of business: managing deliveries, collecting payments, building relationships, and stretching the supplies he’d purchased from the Winston-Salem Journal. “It taught me the importance of understanding customer needs,” he reflects. “Back… 

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Dec 4, 2024

Survey Results: Employees Report Pride in Their Jobs 

In the 2024 Employee Engagement Survey, employees said they were satisfied with their work and their supervisors, but they were less happy with issues of performance management and communication. 

An employee works in The Landing, one of many unique sensory-friendly spaces in Hunt Library.

Dec 2, 2024

Appealing to the Senses

Whether you prefer a bustling coffee shop or a quiet, private room, NC State University Libraries’ sensory-friendly maps can help you find the perfect place to study or get work done. 

Afternoon sunlight streams through the fall foliage at Wolf Plaza

Dec 2, 2024

NC State Announces 2024-25 Goodnight Early Career Innovators

NC State announced its 2024-25 class of Goodnight Early Career Innovators today. This program recognizes and rewards promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. The 25 faculty selected will receive $22,000 ­for each of the next three years to support their scholarship and research endeavors. 

Dean Jim Pfaendtner, left, presents Francis de los Reyes with the 2024 RJ Reynolds Award.

Nov 20, 2024

40th RJ Reynolds Award Recipient Francis de los Reyes Conducts Research at the Interfaces

Francis de los Reyes, Glenn E. and Phyllis J. Futrell Distinguished Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, was honored with the 2024 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension on Nov. 11. 

Dr. Mat Gerard

Nov 20, 2024

Anatomy of an Exceptional and Life-Changing Professor

Occipital, parietal, temporal are words the first-year veterinary students will hear a lot over the next three hours as they examine the animal skulls on the lab tables in front of them, but first their anatomy professor offers these: “massive transition,” “right on track,” “very OK.” The possibly disappointing results of the first big test… 

Taylor Ofori standing outside next to a brick building

Nov 12, 2024

Spotlight on Deaf/Hard of Hearing/DeafBlind Services

In January 2024, Taylor Ofori, a certified sign language interpreter, became the inaugural coordinator of deaf, hard of hearing and deaf/blind services. Learn more about how she supports students, faculty and staff at NC State. 

Rodolphe Barrangou and Ph.D. student Echo Pan in the lab.

Nov 12, 2024

Future-proofing Food and Agriculture: NC State’s Genome Editing Center

How will genome editing benefit food and agriculture? We asked CRISPR expert Rodolphe Barrangou, an NC State faculty member and co-founder of five companies. 

A person carries a stack of winter sweaters

Nov 11, 2024

Donate to the Wolfpack Winter Coat and Clothing Drive

Donations for students and staff in need will be accepted at various drop-off locations around campus through Jan. 27, 2025.  

Bill Grant

Nov 8, 2024

Remembering Bill Grant

William Cullen “Bill” Grant, who taught biological sciences at NC State, died on Oct. 13, 2024, at the age of 80.  

Mary Ann Danowitz in cap and gown

Oct 29, 2024

Danowitz Will Use Fulbright Specialist Award To Explore Gender Equality for European Union INSPIRE Project

NC State College of Education Professor and Dean Emerita Mary Ann Danowitz will spend six weeks at the Open University of Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, this fall as the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Award. 

A man and a young girl load bags of pet food onto a truck to take to western North Carolina as part of the Hurricane Helene relief effort

Oct 10, 2024

Getting a Recovery Foothold in the NC Mountains

In the two weeks since Hurricane Helene swamped the North Carolina mountains, NC State students, faculty, staff and alumni have pitched in to help with recovery and relief. These are their stories.