RALEIGH (Dec. 4, 2020) â Record-setting astronaut and North Carolina State University alumna Christina Koch sees a one-word parallel between the first commercial flight to the International Space Station last month and the NC State Class of 2020: Resilience. The four crew members on the Spacex flight chose a special name to reflect the pandemic… READ MORE
Christina Koch: Women âcan do absolutely anything they wantâ
RALEIGH (Dec. 4, 2020) â Before she spent 328 days aboard â and sometimes outside â the International Space Station, Christina Koch spent five years at North Carolina State University.1 And as she prepares to deliver a commencement address to 9,100 NC State graduates in a virtual ceremony Friday evening, Koch (pronounced âCookâ) says NC State… READ MORE
Woodson: More back-and-forth in online classes
RALEIGH â Online course offerings have improved dramatically since UNC System campuses abruptly shifted classes online last spring. But NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says they can still get better. âYou can create very rich course content and very meaningful experiences for students in laboratory settings, etc., through the virtual environment,â Woodson says in… READ MORE
NC State aims to put phosphorus where it belongs
RALEIGH â One thing that hasnât slowed down at UNC System campuses during the coronavirus pandemic is research. At a recent UNC Board of Governors committee meeting, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson reported that research at NC State is up 10% this year, and UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said research is up 15%… READ MORE
What NC State learned: Spacing and testing
RALEIGH â NC State University learned quite a bit about managing through the coronavirus pandemic this fall. âThe first thing we learned is that we can educate students safely in the classroom,â NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. There wasnât a single case of community spread in the universityâs classrooms or… READ MORE
NC State aims for a full spring semester
RALEIGH â The biggest heartache of fall semester, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says, was telling students to go home after theyâd lived on campus just three weeks. âItâs that first few weeks of school where you make new friends, you build community â and our students didnât have time to do that,â Woodson… READ MORE
Woodson: âHuman interaction⌠is kind of a big dealâ
RALEIGH â 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 Universityâs Chancellor says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. Students and… READ MORE
Josephus Daniels âcompletely opposite NC Stateâs valuesâ
RALEIGH â 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 schoolâs Board of Trustees last month to remove Danielsâ name from Daniels Hall, which… READ MORE
âMore than a village â it takes a land-grant universityâ
RALEIGH (Nov. 18, 2019) â 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 â its top honor for economic engagement. âI see this work every day,â Howell, NC Stateâs Vice Chancellor for External Affairs,… READ MORE
Universities can learn something from sweet potatoes
By Leslie BoneyNC State University LUCAMA â 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 womenâs studies… READ MORE
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