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Students signing a banner and sharing their plans for the future.

May 2, 2025

BTEC Ceremony Marks 1,000th Graduate

The ceremony, to be held May 2 at the main BTEC facility on Centennial Campus, will see the 1,000th student graduate from the center’s academic programs.
Timothy Holder

Dec 21, 2022

Timothy Holder finds a field that pulls together many — but not all — of his interests

Timothy Holder has always felt pulled toward varying interests — medicine, wearable devices, racquetball, exploring new places and philosophy, to name a few.
Jenna Butler

Dec 20, 2022

ISE senior scores her degree

Earning a degree in industrial and systems engineering and playing Division I women’s soccer wasn’t easy for senior Jenna Butler, but she would not have approached college without either.
Lynne Dale dressed in red graduation cap and gown with fall trees and leaves in the background.

Dec 14, 2022

Finding a future: How a knee injury made one senior’s path clear

Like many students with a love for math and science, Lynne Dale, materials science and engineering ‘22, always knew she wanted to become an engineer, but what type of engineer was a big question for her.
Yuseung Kim, M.S. computer engineering '22, leaps in front of James B. Hunt Library on Centennial Campus.

Dec 14, 2022

Yuseung Kim finds his American dream at NC State

Yuseung Kim came to the United States for graduate school with several dreams and goals in mind: get his degree, find a job and figure out a place to settle down.
Catherine Chirichillo

May 16, 2022

Collaborating through college

Catherine Chirichillo realized by the end of her first year at NC State that her time in the College of Engineering (COE) would work out just fine.
Jhonatan Minope dressed in graduation cap and gown.

May 11, 2022

CBE senior Jhonatan Minope does it all

a traditional path to completing his degree in chemical engineering. Unlike most students, he had already moved to a new country, began a career and started his family.
Emory New, wearing a red dress, poses for picture while sitting on a wooden bench.

May 6, 2022

A new generation agricultural engineer

Emory New is one of those students people know before actually meeting her. A graduating senior from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, helping people is at the heart of everything she does. 
Raven McLaurin

May 4, 2022

Guiding the next generation of aspiring engineers

Pursuing environmental engineering was an obvious choice for McLaurin, who wanted to use her mathematics and science skills to make the world a better place.