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Apr 11, 2024

Kim Garrett Is NC State’s 2024 Esri Innovation Program Student of the Year 

NC State joined a select group of universities worldwide when it became part of the Esri Innovation Program in 2017. Congratulations to our 2024 EIP Student of the Year. 

Dec 19, 2023

Logan Jones Takes a Swing to Expand His Experience

Logan Jones recently completed an NC State Online degree program. Currently with the Chicago White Sox, Jones travels often and found the online format helpful as he continued his educational journey. Read more about Jones’ experiences with NC State Online! 

Dec 13, 2023

Kami Lanning Completes Online Master’s Degree

Kami Lanning recently completed the NC State Online Master of Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Sport Management degree. Lanning works for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as the Recreation Manager on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, NC. 

Dec 7, 2023

Graduating Student Spotlight: Xiaojie Gao

Xiaojie Gao will graduate in December with a Ph.D. in geospatial analytics. He is currently employed as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University. 

May 2, 2023

Graduation to Vocation: Corey White Democratizes Geospatial Modeling

Corey White will graduate in May with a Ph.D. in geospatial analytics from the College of Natural Resources. Upon graduation, he will launch OpenPlains Inc. in Durham, North Carolina as founder and CEO. 

Mar 29, 2023

5 Questions with Goodnight Doctoral Fellow Prabin Bhusal

Prabin Bhusal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at the College of Natural Resources. He is studying the socioeconomic and political processes that influence the institutions of community forestry in Nepal. 

Mar 15, 2023

Inclusivity Outdoors: Making Field Research Safer

Two NC State graduate students founded Field Inclusive, a nonprofit to make field research safer for all — especially researchers from marginalized communities. 

Sep 16, 2022

Forestry Alumni Melinda Martinez Recognized with Sulzman Award

College of Natural Resources alumni, Melinda Martinez received the award for her study exploring greenhouse gas emissions in ghost forests. 

Aug 23, 2022

Collaborators Wanted for Community Science Project Led by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. Student

As an AGU Thriving Earth Exchange Fellow, Shannon McAvoy is partnering with a community science project to conduct a Quality of Life Assessment. She is now recruiting volunteers with experience in economic development planning. 

Aug 23, 2022

NASA Intern Elyssa Collins is Using Satellite Data to Study Earth’s Water Resources

This summer, Elyssa Collins is interning with the Water and Ecosystems Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.