partnerships

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…

Oct 24, 2024

Hitachi Energy, NC State Partnership Powers Connection

Hitachi's "Power of Connection" event is a nontraditional career fair where recruiters, hiring managers and senior professionals engage with students and recent alumni.

A bottle of the Lake Raleigh Woods red blend wine.

Sep 25, 2024

NC State Announces Licensed Wine Highlighting Lake Raleigh Woods

NC State has announced the fourth licensed wine in its Hallowed Places Collection, a limited-edition red blend highlighting Lake Raleigh Woods.

Sep 18, 2024

NC State Joins National Energy Innovation Hub, Boosting Battery Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $62.5 million grant supporting a new energy research hub involving 15 research institutions, including North Carolina State University, to advance sustainable and economical electrochemical energy storage for electric grids.

The Belltower is framed with spring flowers on a warm May afternoon.

Aug 22, 2024

NC State Partners in New National Science Foundation Center Dedicated to Domestic Rubber Production

The new center is entitled ERC: Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security or (TARDISS) and is led by Ohio State University. The activities in NC State CBE will be led by Research Professor Greg McKenna, principal investigator (PI), and co-PIs Sindee Simon, department head and Distinguished Professor, and Saad Khan, INVISTA Professor.

Jun 5, 2024

New Poole College Research Initiative Targets Economic Access and Opportunity

The six interdisciplinary projects in Poole’s Game-Changing Research Incentive Program aim to catalyze companies, governments and nonprofits to implement business-parity policies and other meaningful change.

The American and Japanese flags blow in the wind on a line next to a brick building on campus

Apr 10, 2024

A Rare State Visit to NC State

Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida will come to NC State’s Centennial Campus on Friday, the first campus visit by a foreign head of state since 1954.

Three bottles of NC State licensed wine on a red tablecloth in Reynolds Coliseum.

Nov 15, 2023

NC State Announces Licensed Wine Celebrating Reynolds Coliseum

The third offering in the limited-edition Hallowed Places Collection features Reynolds Coliseum, one of the university’s 10 Hallowed Places.

Concept rendering of the new 321 cafe on Centennial Campus

Aug 23, 2023

321 Coffee to Open Centennial Campus Location

Projected to open in early 2024, the cafe will be set in the Venture Place courtyard on Main Campus Drive.

Aug 21, 2023

NC State and New Belgium Agree On Last Call For Old Tuffy

NC State University and New Belgium Brewery have agreed to end their four-year co-branded beer collaboration. Old Tuffy Premium Lager and related merchandise will no longer be produced; it will be available on a limited basis until current supplies are sold. “We appreciate New Belgium and their support over the last several years,” said NC State Chief…

A large group of students on a staircase make wolfie signs

Aug 9, 2023

From the Brickyard to Baku

NC State’s Global Training Initiative partners with organizations, businesses and government agencies, recently stretching to the far edge of Eastern Europe.

Apr 11, 2023

Brewing a Greater Good: NC State, 321 Coffee Launch Co-branded Coffee

Alumni Lindsay Wrege and Michael Evans are bringing 321 Coffee back to NC State in a big way. Get the details on the co-branded coffee, Greater Good.

Mr. and Ms. Wuf display the NC State x 321 branded coffee.

Mar 28, 2023

NC State Announces 321 Coffee Partnership

NC State University announces new partnership with alumni-owned and -operated 321 Coffee to produce the "Greater Good", an officially licensed co-branded coffee.

Feb 8, 2023

NC State Expands Partnership with Nagoya University

Nagoya University will establish a U.S. campus on NC State’s Centennial Campus — Nagoya University Global Campus — thanks to a new agreement that strengthens the partnership between the two institutions.

Two students dancing in colorful outfits.

Dec 1, 2022

NC State and Under Armour Partnership Takes Innovation to the Next Level

Under Armour and NC State have launched a new partnership that will support student development, commercialize research, and advance textile and materials innovation across the apparel, footwear and accessories industry.