graduate students

Aug 19, 2015

Dean’s Scene: Welcome to the Pack, and Be Ready For Social Networking Opportunities

Maureen Grasso, dean of The Graduate School, welcomes students and offers tips on navigating networking opportunities.

Aug 4, 2015

New Graduate Students Learn Value of Mentoring From Theater Group

Lessons in mentoring will be the theme when new graduate students gather for orientation Aug. 17 at McKimmon Center.

Jul 29, 2015

Protect and Save Native Bees: Student Offers Tips

April Hamblin, master's student in entomology, is exploring how native bees respond to urban heat. She and two NC State colleagues helped develop an exhibit on pollinators at the N.C. Botanical Garden.

Jul 22, 2015

Grad School Honoree Passionate About Student Diversity

Dr. Erin Banks, director of the Graduate School’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD), received a University Award of Excellence for 2015 at a ceremony in July. She shares her passion for increasing diversity among graduate students.

Jul 8, 2015

Stephanie Mathews: Converting Stinky Paper Waste into the Sweet Smell of Success

Passed a paper mill lately? The source of that nauseating smell is called black liquor, which is the result of the pulping process. Stephanie Mathews is working with NC State researchers to change that.

Jun 29, 2015

Wanted: Grad Students to Develop Science Lessons for K-12 Teachers

Graduate students and university researchers are invited to share their research knowledge with K-12 educators at the SciREN Triangle and Educator Open House, Sept. 10, at Raleigh’s N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

Jun 29, 2015

Food Science Grad Students Place in National Competition

A team North Carolina State University food science graduate students has been selected as one of the top three teams in the National Dairy Council New Product Competition for their product 'Shake and Go Kefir.'

Jun 29, 2015

Student Receives Doris Duke Fellowship for Child Welfare Research

NC State doctoral student Jenna Montgomery Armstrong received a Doris Duke Fellowship to help with her research on preventing child maltreatment among families living in homeless shelters.

Jun 25, 2015

Distributed Technique for Power ‘Scheduling’ Advances Smart Grid Concept

NC State graduate students Navid Rahbari-Asr and Yuan Zhang are co-authors of a paper about a new technique for “scheduling” energy in electric grids that moves away from centralized management by tapping into the distributed computing power of energy devices.

Jun 17, 2015

Grad Students Invited to Global Change Symposium

NC State graduate students are invited to join faculty, staff and affiliates for the campus Global Change Symposium, Aug. 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Talley Student Union Ballroom. The event is free, but participants must register by July 15.