Winter Welcome Week aims to connect students to campus and provide them with the skills and experiences to thrive in their time on campus. Check out this year's schedule, download the mobile guide, and learn more about the week's events.
Dr. Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her talk, "Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society," is free and open to the public, but registration is required. This program is co-presented by the NC State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior and the NCSU Libraries.
Please join us from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in 104 Witherspoon Student Center to celebrate the opening of the brand new Military and Veterans Resource Center at NC State. We welcome all students, faculty, staff, and alumni to join us for this open house event. Come tour the new center, learn about our programs…
Roland Martin, host and managing editor of TV One’s NewsOne Now, the first daily morning news program to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports and culture from an explicitly African American perspective, is the featured speaker at the 2017 NC State Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Campus Commemoration. This event is sponsored by the African American Cultural Center.
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.”
All members of the campus community are invited to a panel discussion focused on examining and learning about the religious climate of Islam and Muslims - as well as the difficulties they are faced with. Panelists will provide an overview of the religion, discuss some of the challenges that have arisen including an increase in hate crimes, discrimination, and lack of understanding, and provide impactful solutions that anyone can implement.
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.
NC State faculty use campus institutes as a springboard for new directions of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research. Come hear from faculty who have built research partnerships in the U.S. and many other countries related to sustainability, climate change, construction, environmental issues and nanotechnology. Registration requested.