A full slate of events is scheduled at NC State for Black History Month. For details, see the eleventh annual campus-wide calendar, prepared by Multicultural Student Affairs. The 2017 theme is “Unlearning the Single Story: Intersectional Blackness.”
Dr. Sylvester Jim Gates, Jr. will give the 2017 College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Diversity Lecture on “Equity vs. Excellence: A False Dichotomy in Science and Society.” Dr. Gates is a theoretical physicist and the author of more than 200 research papers. He received the National Medal of Science in 2013 and was awarded the 2016 Arts and Sciences Advocacy Award by the Council of College of Arts and Sciences.