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First in the Pack students proudly display their future career choices.

Oct 31, 2024

First in the Pack Builds Community for First-Generation College Students

For students who are the first in their family to walk the college path, it’s even more important to build a community. At NC State, the First in the Pack program, under TRIO Collegiate and Pack Support Programs, seeks to do exactly that, bringing together first-generation college students, as well as faculty and staff who were formerly first-generation students. 
Jimmy Ramirez proudly displays his Howling Success banner outside Brooks Hall.

Sep 27, 2024

Howling Success: Jimmy Ramirez

This month’s howling success is a fourth-year student studying graphic and experience design and Spanish literature who creates vital marketing materials for various campus departments, and has a passion for studying his Latinx heritage.
Makayla Richardson Headshot

Sep 27, 2024

A High-Impact Experience of Leadership and Connection

As a Poole Student Ambassador, Makayla Richardson discovered how one high-impact experience could unlock leadership potential, foster meaningful connections, and pace the way for future success.
Megan Wallace, a first-year DVM student at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, holds a clipboard in the Veterinary Hospital's ER.

Aug 6, 2024

Class of 2028: From NC State Undergrad to Hospital Employee to DVM Student

Megan Wallace, a member of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Class of 2028, trades tourniquets for textbooks in moving from NC State’s Veterinary Hospital to its classrooms.

Aug 5, 2024

Juntos Summer Academy Gives Students Immersive Experience at NC State

Last month, 114 high school students from eight different North Carolina counties got a chance to experience everything that NC State’s Juntos program and the NC State campus experience has to offer. 
Six engineering students pose for a photo with Rebecca Ward and Georgina Sanchez after their poster presentations for the Coastal Community Resilience Immersive Training Program.

Aug 2, 2024

Engineering students help Jones County improve resiliency

For six College of Engineering students, a summer focused on the coast meant a summer spent learning about how to support a coastal community working to improve its resilience to threats like heavy rainfall and flooding.  This summer, the community was Jones County, located about two hours southeast of NC State University and 30 miles from…

Aug 1, 2024

Leading the Way

Mario Jackson Ph.D. ’24 graduated on May 4 with a doctorate in educational leadership, policy and human development. Jackson, a Wilcox-Hodnett Doctoral Fellow, researched equity-oriented principal preparation programs.
Julio Terán, an academic adviser and lecturer in the Engineering first-year program, with a Wolf Plaza statue.

Jul 31, 2024

UNC System Research Grant Transforms First-Year Engineering Course

In collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Research, Julio Terán, an academic advisor and lecturer in the College of Engineering’s first-year program, will use a UNC system grant to integrate carbon neutrality principles into a first-year course.
a woman holds a tray of seedlings in a greenhouse

Jul 29, 2024

Cultivating African Indigenous Vegetables

Inspired to improve food security for her village in Kenya, Gladys Wanja Njeri is breeding African Indigenous Vegetables for nutritional value, climate adaptation, economic stability and beyond.
Messiah Williams graduated from NC State at 18 years old in May.

Jun 3, 2024

A Historic Graduation

Eighteen-year-old Messiah Williams is one of the youngest African-American male graduates in NC State history.