September 2025 Announcements

• Wellness Day is an effort to provide staff, faculty and students an opportunity to reflect on their health and well-being. The next Wellness Day will be taking place on Tuesday, September 16, 2025. There will be no classes held or assignments due on wellness days, and instructors are asked to avoid tests or deadlines on this day or the day after.

From the Office of Academic Strategy, Innovation and Solutions:

• The OASIS Academic Innovation Accelerator is currently collecting proposals for the 2025-26 academic year. The Accelerator financially and operationally supports innovative, one-year pilot projects that drive progress towards NC State’s academic goals. Learn more about the program and submit a proposal today.

From the Climate and Sustainability Academy:

• The Climate and Sustainability Academy (CaSA) is pleased to announce the launch of our new website. This platform serves as a central resource to highlight NC State’s climate and sustainability efforts, showcase opportunities for engagement and share updates from across the university and beyond. As part of our mission, CaSA is dedicated to amplifying the important climate and sustainability work happening at NC State, helping to connect efforts across colleges, departments, units and partners. The site offers opportunities to stay informed through our monthly newsletter and to share your own news, events and announcements for broader visibility through our communications channels. Join our email list and share your stories to stay connected and engaged. We look forward to building momentum together as we advance the university’s leadership in climate and sustainability. 
• CaSA welcomed Shakiya McCoy as our 2025–2026 Communications and Marketing Intern. In her role, she will help amplify student voices and engagement by producing CaSA’s signature Student Spotlights. A senior in the Wilson College of Textiles majoring in Fashion and Textile Management, Shakiyah is passionate about storytelling, community building, and connecting students to opportunities. On campus, she is actively involved as a Student Government member, Wilson College Ambassador, and participant in several student organizations.
• The Blue Economy Innovation Program’s 5th annual “Creating Solutions for the Global Blue Economy” workshop (BEW25) will be held Oct. 24-25 at NC State’s coastal campus in Morehead City, NC. This workshop is free for NC State undergraduate and graduate students. The workshop offers a rare chance for students to develop real solutions for the coast—solutions that blend science, creativity and innovation. Networking opportunities with innovators, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders are a key feature of the workshop. This year, with generous support from the German Consulate’s Clean Economy Bridge Program, a delegation from University of Rostock and the Ocean Technology Campus in Rostock, Germany will participate. Topics to be discussed include: aqua-/mariculture; coastal erosion and water quality; marine renewable energy; coastal flooding and saltwater intrusion; sensor development and AI. Register here before 5 p.m. EST on Sept. 25.  
• The KIETS Climate Leaders Program is hosting its annual fall symposium, “Think and Do: Climate Challenges and Solutions,” Oct. 1-2, in Hunt Library on Centennial Campus. Attendance is free and open to everyone. Attend a communications workshop and listen to speakers and panels on city design and tourism, hazard mitigation and disaster recovery, Energy Grids and Sustainable Proteins. Students can present at the student poster session and labs, startups, businesses, etc., can request a table at our Innovation Showcase. Registration is requested for planning purposes. 
• The KIETS Climate Leaders Program request for applications for its 2026 student/mentor cohort is now open. All undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges, departments and majors may partner with a mentor (faculty or professional staff) for this one-year program. Students and their mentors will receive stipends to support the student’s three- to six-month internship placement and time in the program. Applications will close at 11:59 pm, Oct. 19. 

From Continuing and Lifelong Education:

• NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education presents Career Catalyst Conversations, a bimonthly webinar series designed to help professionals navigate change, sharpen their skills and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving world of work. Join the next conversation Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 11 a.m. and hear from Kacy Webster, CEO of Profit Quiver, on Navigating the AI Era: The Leadership Imperative for Competitive Survival.

From University Data and Analytics:

• The University Data and Analytics Factbook dashboards are now available with fall 2025 census data. Dashboard updates include Student Headcount, Student Credit Hours, Graduation and Retention, and Degree and Certificate Completions.

From DELTA:

• Discover the many ways DELTA supports NC State instructors. From workshops and consultations to DELTA Grants and our LearnTech Help Desk, DELTA is here to support you. Learn more here.
• Join the journey to more accessible course materials! This fall, DELTA is offering a new opportunity for instructors to ensure that all members of the Pack can access and engage with their course content. Learn more and register for the free 10-week workshop series. 
• This fall, DELTA’s AI Fluency workshop series is helping NC State instructors explore the tools, ethics and strategies for teaching in an AI-enabled world. This 10-week series is open to all instructors and TAs, and is designed to be interactive, practical and immediately applicable to your courses. Learn more and register for the free workshop series.
• NC State and DELTA will host the 2025 Educational Technology Collaborative Annual Conference Oct. 14-17 at Talley Student Union. The conference will bring together digital technology leaders in higher ed from across the country. DELTA Vice Provost Donna Petherbridge will serve as the conference’s keynote speaker — bringing insight and inspiration from her decades of leadership in digital learning and innovation. Learn more about the conference and register. 
• Take a virtual tour of DELTA classrooms and learn more about the tech-enabled spaces and the people who support them.
• This fall, DELTA is offering a new opportunity for instructors to ensure that all members of the Pack can access and engage with their course content. The Join the Journey to More Accessible Course Materials workshop series is a weekly, hands-on series designed to help instructors make small, sustainable changes that have a big impact on the classroom. 
• This fall, NC State instructors have a new opportunity to sharpen their skills and spark ideas around one of the most pressing topics in higher education: artificial intelligence. The Digital Learning team at DELTA has launched the AI Fluency Workshop Series – a 10-part professional development series designed to help faculty, instructors and TAs explore how AI intersects with teaching, learning and academic integrity.

From the NC State European Center in Prague:

• Whether you already know the Prague Center or are hearing about it for the first time, now is the perfect time to get involved. A series of events this semester will showcase two decades of impact — from an interactive timeline exhibition to lightning talks designed for faculty. Join us in celebrating this milestone and see how the European Center continues NC State’s global mission. Learn more.

From the Office for Faculty Excellence:

• 2025-26 Faculty LEAD applications are now open! The Faculty LEAD Program, sponsored by NC State’s Learning and Organizational Development and Office for Faculty Excellence, is intended for faculty members who want to become better leaders. This year-long, cohort-based program will be held primarily in person. Faculty participants will attend seven sessions, leading to a Faculty LEAD certificate.
• A COIL Faculty Learning Community event will take place Thursday, Sept. 11 from 3-4 p.m. online and OFE Conference Room #405 (4th Floor Clark Hall 405). COIL is Collaborative Online International Learning and promotes curricular, virtual, interactive educational opportunities by connecting faculty and students through shared experiences across international borders. Our community is faculty-led and open to everyone interested in learning more about COIL, sharing resources about how to internationalize your curriculum, and fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration. 
• A RED Discussion: Critical and Creative Thinking Aligned to Your Course will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. Cultivating students’ critical and creative thinking (C&CT) is essential for preparing them to succeed in virtually every discipline and to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. These skills enable individuals to seek new questions, approach problems from multiple perspectives, identify biases and assumptions and find innovative solutions. In this session, faculty will align a general C&CT process to their disciplinary process and will perform a course (or curriculum) mapping activity to identify the gaps in opportunities they are providing students to develop these skills.
• Getting Ready to Reflect on Your Teaching will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. Reflecting on our teaching can feel daunting, frustrating, or even overwhelming! The RED Core Teaching Certificate breaks the reflective approach to teaching into manageable stages, from instructional design to assessment of learning and teaching, and provides tips and strategies that can be adapted to any learning environment. The first step is to get ready to reflect on our teaching practice, celebrate our strengths, and tackle our challenges. Join this conversation to see how quickly we can find connections with and learn from our colleagues across the university.
• OFE is kicking off ONLINE Mentoring Matters for fall 2025 — register now our sessions. Mentoring Matters is a four-part professional development program designed in collaboration with NC State’s Graduate School to equip faculty with the tools and strategies to foster more productive and successful mentoring and advising relationships with graduate students.

From the Genetics and Genomics Academy:

• The Fourth Annual Genetics and Genomics Academy Retreat, held Sept. 26 in Talley Student Union, Mountains and Piedmont Ballrooms, is a great opportunity to reconnect with the community after summer, get research updates, win prizes and look forward to the coming year. The Fred Gould Genetics and Genomics Annual Keynote Seminar features Dr. Richard Lenski of Michigan State University, presenting “Dynamics and Repeatability of Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria”. 

From the Office of Global Engagement:

• This fall, we’re celebrating 20 years of the NC State European Center in Prague and its impact on the Wolfpack community. From September through November, join us for a series of events that showcase the power of global learning and the connections that shape NC State’s future.
• NC State’s Global Leadership Minor is preparing students to lead with confidence, cultural fluency, and values that last a lifetime. In partnership with the Shelton Leadership Center and the NC State European Center in Prague, the program takes students across Europe—combining classroom learning with real-world leadership challenges in cities like Prague, Innsbruck, Glasgow, and Nice. Applications for the next cohort are open now!

From the Global One Health Academy:

• The Global One Health Academy is excited to announce its second Grand Challenges Addressing Program (GCAP) focus area: the food-water interface. Proposals are now being accepted for pilot projects for the GCAP Food-Water Interface Seed Grants, which will support interdisciplinary, One Health projects that integrate across food and water. Deadline: Monday, Sept. 15, 11:59 p.m.
• Proposals are now being accepted for the 2025-26 Local Engagement Seed Grants. These seed grants will support NC State students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in their One Health-relevant projects that engage and benefit North Carolina communities. Award amounts are available between $2,500 and $10,000, with three funding types/levels depending on the scope and goals of the project. Deadline: Monday, Sept. 15, 11:59 p.m.
• The Global One Health Academy is proud to partner with Citizen Science Campus to offer Participatory Sciences Microgrants. These microgrants advance graduate research that utilizes participatory science approaches and/or advances the field of participatory sciences. Graduate or professional students at NC State enrolled in the Participatory Sciences Graduate Certificate are eligible to apply. Interested students may enroll in the certificate at any point up through the application deadline. Deadline: Monday, Sept. 15, 11:59 p.m.
• The Global One Health Academy is proud to offer the Spring 2026 Graduate Travel Awards to support graduate students for domestic or international travel that advances their global One Health-related research. Award amounts are available up to $1,500 for domestic travel and up to $3,000 for international travel. This current call will support travel occurring January through June 2026. Deadline: Sunday, Oct. 12, 11:59 p.m.
• In 2025, the Global One Health Academy announced the launch of the Local Engagement Seed Grants to support NC State students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in their One Health-relevant local engagement projects. Kathryn Stevenson (College of Natural Resources), was a recipient of the 2025 Local Engagement Seed Grant Awards for a project on designing a co-produced resilience education program. Learn more about Stevenson and how the Global One Health Academy helped support her research on resilience education through her spotlight here.
• Each year, the Global One Health Academy funds an exceptional group of graduate students with One Health-related research interests. During their one-year appointment, the Global One Health Fellows are offered many opportunities, such as professional development workshops, networking with One Health professionals and more! Learn more about Holly McInnes and how the Global One Health Fellowship helped support her important research on tomato spotted wilt virus and advance her professional career.
• The Global One Health Academy is pleased to share its 2024-25 Annual Report, which highlights its work and accomplishments in One Health research, education, engagement, and community building during the last academic year. Check out the full report here to learn more about the Global One Health Academy’s activities throughout the previous year, and how these activities advance One Health throughout the university, the state, and worldwide!

From the Office of Information Technology:

• Changes are coming to WolfPrint in October. Web Print will be retired during fall break. Users should transition to the improved Mobility Print service. Plus, a new printer location map is available.
• OIT will perform extended IT quarterly maintenance Nov. 1-2. Many major IT and network services may be degraded or unavailable during this time.

From the Institute for Advanced Analytics:

• The Institute for Advanced Analytics team invites you to attend Tours, Talks & Tech at the IAA on Wednesday, Oct. 8 from 4-6 p.m. in Venture III. Hear from IAA alumni and Goodnight Executive Director Bill Rand on topics related to AI in the data science space, and see a demo of Sarah Egan Warren’s VR Present technology — plus tour the Institute’s new facility and enjoy refreshments while connecting with former, current, and future IAA students and other data professionals. This event is part of NC State’s Data Science and AI Week (Oct. 6-10). Register at https://go.ncsu.edu/iaa-oct8. 

From the Institute for Emerging Issues:

• Applications are being accepted for the fall 2025 Strategic Workforce Leadership Initiative, taking place Oct. 28-31. Only 25 spots are available. Applications will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis until Sept. 26, or until spots are filled.
• The latest episode of The Connector Podcast — “Igniting Tomorrow’s Workforce” — highlights two nonprofits joining forces to ignite the workforce of the future. SparkNC President Dr. Lynn Moody and District C CEO Dan Gonzalez join the podcast to talk about their method for revolutionizing high school education and the internship experience. 

From Institutional Effectiveness:

• Leading an initiative where success depends on people adopting new behaviors? Discover a powerful yet simple research-based framework for facilitating individual change and driving success in this month’s Implementation Insights. Implementation Insights is a regular article series with initiative updates and cross-cutting observations from NC State’s implementation plan. 
• Evolve from Impactful to High-Impact Experience — siscover how to elevate your courses and student activities into transformative learning opportunities through Packways professional development. This guide outlines the research-backed framework for creating High-Impact Experiences (HIEs) that deepen student engagement, foster authentic learning, and integrate critical reflection. Three workshop options available for faculty, staff and advisors are linked here.

From the NC State University Libraries:

• Coffee & Viz returns with VR volcanoes on Sept. 19. Dazzling visuals and innovative information—that’s the Libraries’ Coffee & Viz series! These engrossing events in the Hunt Library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab showcase the unique ways that researchers at NC State and elsewhere are using visualization to enhance their scholarly work. Coffee & Viz events are free and open to the public; registration is required. 

The first event of the fall semester is virtual; the subsequent events are in-person and will have complimentary coffee, tea and light refreshments available beginning at 9:15 a.m. in an adjacent space. To help increase the sustainability of this program, please bring your own coffee mug. The fall 2025 Coffee & Viz schedule is here. 

From the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative:

• The N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative recently marked an important milestone: the first graduation from the Seed2Grow startup program. From the Plant Sciences Building’s agricultural technology incubator, Hoofprint Biome advanced development of an enzyme-based feed additive that not only reduces methane output from cattle but also boosts milk production in dairy cows and weight gain in beef cattle. For the latest on Seed2Grow, see https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/news/seed2grow2025/. 
• The N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s “mashup” series brings industry partners and the NC State University together to learn and network with the local agricultural technology community. The next mashup, on Oct. 2 at the Plant Sciences Building, will focus on agricultural formulations.

The event kicks off at 4 p.m. with a seminar featuring Toni Aldridge and Grant Aldridge of Nufarm, as well as Terri Billeisen of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and Jim Martin of the Department of Chemistry. Billeisen and Martin will provide an overview of a newly launched agricultural formulations class that they are co-leading at NC State and a certificate program that’s being developed. The seminar takes place in the first floor seminar room, then moves upstairs to the third floor Innovation Hub at 5 p.m. for an hourlong networking mixer. Register here.

From the Office of Research and Innovation:

• In July, Krista Walton took the helm of the Office of Research and Innovation as the sixth vice chancellor in our history. Walton, an Alabama native, came to NC State from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she served as associate vice president for research operations and infrastructure. Learn more about Walton here.

From the Shelton Leadership Center:

• Interested in learning how to collaborate more effectively on teams? The Thriving in Interdisciplinary Teams Workshop Series, produced by the Shelton Leadership Center, is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students of any field of study. Applications are due Sept. 15, 2025.  Learn more about the program and apply.
• Registration is open for the 2025 Shelton Leadership Forum: Ethical Leadership in an Interconnected World. The forum will be held Thursday, Oct. 23 from 9 a.m.–12:45 p.m. EST and will be streamed live virtually for all registrants.

The forum equips attendees with practical strategies to foster effective engagement through mutual respect, analyze leadership actions that promote ethical considerations, and prioritize the shared values and perspectives of their communities both locally and globally. Expert speakers and thought leaders will engage the audience by providing resources that drive ethical decision-making and produce collaborative connections. Register here: https://sheltonleadership.ncsu.edu/leadership-forum/. 

• The Thriving in Interdisciplinary Workshop Series is a hands-on, four-session experience designed to equip students with practical tools to excel in any team. Students will elevate their teamwork skills for academic and professional success. The workshop series is open to students of all majors allowing them to engage with peers from various fields, learning a values-based, team-centric approach to leadership. All NC State students are invited to apply. Applications are due Sept. 15.

From the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs:

• OUIP’s inaugural Share Your Science event will take place Nov. 7 from 1-5 p.m. in Talley Student Union, Room 3285. This event will showcase the interdisciplinary research happening in fellowship programs supported by the Provost’s Office. Programs include: Genetics and Genomics Scholars, Global One Health Fellows, Global Change Research Fellows, Agricultural Biotechnology in Our Evolving Food, Energy, and Water Systems, Genetic Engineering and Society minor, Sustainable Futures Fellows, Coastal Community Resilience Immersive Training Fellows, and GRAD-AID for Ag National Science Foundation Research Traineeship. Learn more and register at go.ncsu.edu/share-your-science.