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Grad Student Profile: Rebecca Craps

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Sumedh Beknalkar

Jan 6, 2026

Grad Student Profile: Sumedh Beknalkar

Sumedh Beknalkar, a Ph.D. candidate in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at NC State’s College of Engineering, is also the president and co-founder of SLA Robotics. His research involves the development of an autonomous, multi-terrain, and amphibious robot from ‘concept to prototype’.
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Jan 5, 2026

Students Use Data Science Skills to Address USDA Ag Challenges

As USDA interns, five NC State graduate students applied data science skills to help build AI tools for agriculture.
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Jan 5, 2026

My Student Experience: Graduate Student Assistantships Prepare College of Education Students for Future Careers

From teaching and supporting pre-service teachers, to supporting recruitment and programs like Teaching Fellows and Students Advocating for Youth (SAY) Village, graduate students in the College of Education are making an impact while receiving funding for their degrees and gaining valuable, hands-on experience through graduate assistantships.
Dr. Kimberly Hallowell with short brown hair and glasses wears a white lab coat and stands in a lab.

Dec 18, 2025

NC State Equine Researcher Wins Young Investigator Grant for Steroid Studies

The Foundation for the Horse has awarded Dr. Kimberly Hallowell, a Ph.D. student in NC State’s Comparative Biomedical Sciences Program, a 2025 Young Investigator Grant to support her research into using metabolic indicators to predict which horses are at risk of developing laminitis after receiving steroid injections.
Matt McCabe

Dec 16, 2025

Matt McCabe, Graduate Student-Athlete

A former NC State student-athlete and current graduate student balancing Division I football with intensive analytics training, Matt McCabe is combining his love for sports with financial modeling to help athletes plan for their futures – both on and off the field.
Master of Statistics graduate Elle Whitlock holds up her graduation cap in front of the Memorial Belltower

Dec 15, 2025

Advancing Into a Statistics Career

As Elle Whitlock prepares to graduate from NC State for the second time, she recounts how she fell in love with the university’s campus and people.
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Dec 10, 2025

Building Connection and Confidence: How Graduate Networking Mixers Are Transforming Student Success

In today’s competitive job market, technical expertise and academic excellence only go so far. The ability to build relationships has become one of the most valuable competencies graduate students can…
Lauren Pharr stands in front of a grey concrete wall, dressed in red and black graduation robes.

Dec 9, 2025

Advancing Conservation Through Research and Advocacy: Lauren Pharr’s Journey

Lauren Pharr is an avian ecologist and science communicator dedicated to wildlife conservation and supporting underrepresented voices in science.
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Dec 8, 2025

First-year Grad Student Profiles

As we close the chapter on another Fall semester, we spoke with four first-year graduate students to see how their first semester with the Wolfpack has been.

Dec 8, 2025

Grad Student Profile: Rebecca Craps

First-year graduate student Rebecca Craps talks about being a distance education student and her first semester experience at NC State University in the Environmental Assessment program.