Alumni Insights

Profiling NC State graduate student and postdoc alums working in a variety of fields.

Jul 12, 2021

Advice From Newly Hired Assistant Professors

NC State postdoctoral scholars who have recently transitioned to new faculty positions, share their advice for navigating the faculty job market.

Mar 1, 2021

Opportunities in Grant Writing and Support

Molly Puente shares her experience working in grants management and research administration and the resources and events the Proposal Development Unit facilitates at NC State.

Jan 28, 2021

Investigating Opportunities

An NC State PhD candidate reflects on the value of conducting informational interviews with former trainees now working in a variety of careers.

Jan 11, 2021

Engineering Your Post-Postdoc Career

In a first-of-its-kind event, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs collaborated with the College of Engineering to empower engineering postdocs to take advantage of the opportunities available at NC State to launch the next stage of their careers.

Dec 29, 2020

Job Search Advice from NC State Postdoc Alumni

Three former NC State postdoctoral scholars shared their experience recently transitioning from postdoc to their current roles in academia and the national labs.

Aug 18, 2020

Alumni Insights with Daniel Morales, Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Daniel Morales, Ph.D., Technical Director of the Consumer-Packaged Goods business at PreSouter Inc. and an NC State alumnus discusses his career with current graduate student Srivatsan Ramesh.

Tim Beck leaning against the Virginia Tech University stone welcome sign

Feb 24, 2020

Alumni Insights with Tim Becker, Rhetoric & Composition M.A.

NC State alum Tim Becker, M.A., shares insights from his academic job search and experience working as a writing instructor in the Composition Program at Virginia Tech University. This is the first piece in a series of alumni insight interviews conducted by current NC State graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Dec 2, 2019

Job Search Tips with NC State Alum Dane Grismer

According to NC State undergraduate (BS, Chemical Engineering; BS, Paper Science and Engineering, 2009) and postdoctoral alum, Dane Grismer, Ph.D., it is never too early to begin your job search. Grismer describes his process of career exploration, his insights from serving on job searches with his current employer (KBI Biopharma), and offers advice on being prepared and strategic in a new role.

Aug 21, 2019

Alumni Insights: An Hour with Betty-Shannon Prevatt

Betty-Shannon Prevatt, assistant professor of psychology at Meredith College, discusses working at a small liberal arts college and the valuable training and preparation she received while pursuing her Ph.D. at NC State.