RALEIGH – The on-campus college experience is very important to Randy Woodson. The university will start early, forego fall break and end the semester by Thanksgiving in an effort to keep students from traveling widely and then return to campus, NC State University’s Chancellor says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. Students and… READ MORE
Josephus Daniels ‘completely opposite NC State’s values’
RALEIGH – Josephus Daniels was an advocate for NC State University. But he also was an avowed white supremacist who helped foment the Wilmington massacre of 1898. In the accompanying video, NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson explains a decision by the school’s Board of Trustees last month to remove Daniels’ name from Daniels Hall, which… READ MORE
‘More than a village – it takes a land-grant university’
RALEIGH (Nov. 18, 2019) – Kevin Howell equates it with winning a national championship: The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) recognized NC State University this month with its Economic Engagement Connections Award – its top honor for economic engagement. “I see this work every day,” Howell, NC State’s Vice Chancellor for External Affairs,… READ MORE
Universities can learn something from sweet potatoes
By Leslie BoneyNC State University LUCAMA – It was a strange group of visitors looking down on the sweet potato processing line at Scott Farms one day last month. As they listened to a plant manager talk about everything from planting to shipping, a nuclear engineer stood next to a graphic designer, a women’s studies… READ MORE
RTI’s research impact
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Together, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University and RTI International do $3.5 billion worth of research every year. “The opportunity that’s available to the four entities is to come together, to work collaboratively, and to try to attack really big problems in the world,” Wayne Holden, RTI International’s President and… READ MORE
RTI’s Meaghan McGrath: The impact of an NCSU degree
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Seeing the impact on people in rural Nicaragua of what she could do as an environmental engineer made Meaghan McGrath a believer in her chosen field. As a student at NC State University, McGrath signed up for an Alternative Service Break in a remote part of Nicaragua, collaborating with a local… READ MORE
NCSU to use tiniest organisms to improve yields, reduce chemicals
RALEIGH – In a search for solutions to some of the world’s biggest agricultural challenges, a team of researchers from NC State University and three Danish universities will look to the tiniest of organisms. To raise yields to feed a fast-growing world population, they want to find ways to harness microbes that live on, in or… READ MORE
Woodson: ‘Lives that will be transformed’
RALEIGH – NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson sees the power of higher education every day. In the accompanying video, Woodson shares the story of a student who worked hard to become the first in his family to go to college and to be admitted to NC State’s College of Engineering – then his mother… READ MORE
Woodson: Seamless transfer from community college
RALEIGH – All 16 universities in the University of North Carolina System are trying to smooth transfers from North Carolina’s community colleges. “All of us are working hard on seamless transfers from the Community College System,” NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. NC State works in a number of ways… READ MORE
Martin-Vega: Partnerships help prepare STEM workforce
Dr. Louis Martin-Vega Dean, NC State University College of Engineering RALEIGH – NC State University puts learning into practice to tackle 21st century challenges – decaying infrastructure and critical workforce needs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations are just two. Historical achievements and future projections both indicate that the university’s College of Engineering… READ MORE
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