Fall/Winter 2021
![From left to right, Sami Rizkalla, Paul Zia, Michael Creed, David Johnston and Don Kline.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/creed-fwh-group-shot.jpg)
Friendships helped forge successful career for alumnus Michael Creed
![Exterior closeup photo of metal sculpture of wolf with lowered head, green leaves and shrubbery in the background.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/campus-090333-cropped.jpg)
Futrell, Gordon honored by the University with Watauga Medals
![Two students working on a industrial device.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BK11132.jpg)
Built with data
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Seeing stars — and atoms, and everything in between
![African American researcher dressed in full protective gear working in the lab.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MAH0155.jpg)
Return on investment
![Illustrated diagram of startup process.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Centerfold_ResearchtoStartup-illustration_FallAlumniMagazine2021.jpg)
From the lab to startup
![Latex-gloved hand with syringe and testing device.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BK16428_RT.jpg)
Slowing down transmission
![James Lester standing behind computer modeled illustration of molecular structures.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/newwaytolearn.jpg)
A new way to learn
![View from within rows of corn in a Rowan County field.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CALS.corn_.6686.jpg)