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![George Duo](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/george-duo.jpg)
Pack IDEAs Student Spotlight: George Duo
![Sean Mealin and his dog Simba](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sean-mealin-simba.jpg)
First blind Ph.D. student graduates from the Department of Computer Science
![Tsharre Sanders](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/tsharresanders2.jpg)
Tsharre Sanders: Keeping the Faith
![Kate Jones](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/katejones-1500x844-1.jpg)
Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Prescribed Burns
![headshot of Lydia Elrod](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/lydiaelrodheadshot-1500x844-1.jpg)
The Chloe Project
![Portrait of Coleman Simpson](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/featured-3.jpg)
A Leading Advocate: Master’s Student Coleman Simpson
![Erin Meachum](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/erinnorway-scaled.jpg)
Scholarship Support Helps Erin Meachum Pursue Her Career Aspirations of Being a Higher Education Administrator
![Lauren Pharr in woods - Black Excellence: Wildlife Biologist Lauren Pharr - NC State University College of Natural Resources Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lauren-pharrheader.jpg)
Black Excellence: Wildlife Biologist Lauren Pharr
![Eugene Cheung stands in front of a building.](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/eugene-horizontal-scaled-e1611934782446.jpg)
In Era of COVID-19, Virtual Thesis Defenders Make the Most of It
![Portrait photo of NC State Goodnight Scholar Justin May on the NC State campus.](https://grad.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/justin-to-post-scaled-1-e1610132796647.jpg)