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Fatemeh Heydari ’25: Combining Two Disciplines

2025

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Dec 19, 2025

A Look Back at 2025

From new milestones to career-defining awards, faculty, staff and students at NC State continue to lead the pack into a new year of innovation and success.
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Dec 18, 2025

Changing the Future of Healthcare, One Genome at a Time

After four years at the College of Engineering, Sina Jamalzadegan graduated with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. He defended his thesis, which was about advancing bio sensors in order to detect diseases and various organisms in plants and humans, in September.
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Dec 17, 2025

‘It Was Really Impactful For Me’

Ulises Navarro-Luviano graduates in December with an industrial engineering degree — but he was close to quitting engineering entirely until a friend suggested he give industrial a try.
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Dec 16, 2025

Alysha Jarvis: Seizing Opportunities

Jarvis had never traveled outside the country before becoming a Goodnight Transfer Scholar. Her time at NC State has included ASB trips to Peru (twice) and Rwanda, as well as study abroad in Ireland and Goodnight Scholars trips to Paris and London (with Washington, D.C., thrown in for good measure).
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Dec 16, 2025

Ishita Pai Raikar: Building a Community

Featured: Learn more about Ishita Pai Raikar – speaker, leader, entrepreneur and Fall 2025 graduate.
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Dec 15, 2025

Meet Ben Patton, Our Fall 2025 ECE Student Speaker

Ben Patton addressed the Class of 2025 at NC State ECE’s Fall Graduation, sharing a message shaped by resilience, community and the power of connection.
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Dec 15, 2025

Trisha Gite: Bridging AI and Human Centered Technology

An interview with Fall 2025 Computer Science grad Trisha Gite.
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Dec 15, 2025

Josie Gonzalez: Structuring a Degree

Featured: An interview with CCEE Fall 2025 grad Josie Gonzalez.
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Dec 15, 2025

Fatemeh Heydari ’25: Combining Two Disciplines

A multipassionate student prepares to graduate with bachelor’s degrees in biomedical and textile engineering.