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Campus Changes: The last of Riddick Stadium coming down
The last vestige of Riddick Stadium has finally outlived its usefulness. For almost 50 years, students have used the old Riddick Stadium Field House as little more than a conduit to get to the tunnel...
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Campus Changes: Overhaul of student center continues
A campus landmark that students have called home for decades — the Talley Student Center — is undergoing an extreme makeover. Construction is underway on the new Talley Student Center, a $120-million...
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NC State dedicates James B. Hunt Jr. Library
It’s been open for three months. But today, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library was formally dedicated. Keynote speaker Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, called the library...
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Alumnus makes reunion a continental affair
Alan Aitken ’63 usually needs a good reason to leave his home in Juneau, Alaska, every spring and fly halfway around the globe. And that reason is usually the Final Four, the annual culminating weekend...
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Technology continues to expand at new Hunt Library
The James B. Hunt Jr. Library has been open since January, but it remains a work in progress. The Hunt Library makes the latest technology available to students and faculty, but the final touches are...
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Campus Changes: Park Shops has new look and function
Most NC State alumni will remember Park Shops as the drab, industrial-looking building sandwiched between Page and Daniels halls. Built in 1914, it once housed mechanical engineering “shop” classes...
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Today in NC State History: A groundbreaking on Centennial
The faculty and administration at the College of Textiles were not eager to be pioneers on Centennial Campus. They voted unanimously in 1987 against the college moving from Nelson Hall and David Clark...
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Curtis Dail embraced NC State’s Wolfpack as his team
Curtis Dail, a long and devoted supporter of NC State University who made significant contributions to Wolfpack athletics, has died. Dail, who was 85, and his wife of more than 50 years, Jackie, were...
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Student Leaders: Talley’s arrival enriched student activities
Banks Talley was never a student at NC State, but there are few as influential in the development of student programs at the university than the former vice chancellor of student affairs. A holder of...
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Campus Changes: No more walking around 1911 Building
Until a few years ago, it wasn’t easy to walk from the Brickyard to the Court of North Carolina. A straight path would take you between Ricks and Withers halls, and then, something stood in the way:...
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Today in NC State History: College Union dedicated
For more than 60 years, NC State students had only the classroom in which to gain and test their knowledge of their desired disciplines. It wasn’t until 1954 that they had a place on campus where they...
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Today in NC State History: Harrelson gets spaced out
E.T. hit movie theaters in 1982, chronicling a boy’s friendship with an kind alien from outer space. But on this day almost two decades earlier, NC State was home to its own alien invasion. According...
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Today in NC State History: A new civil engineering building
When you consider all that Carroll Lamb Mann did for NC State during his 47 years as a professor of civil engineering (including 32 years as head of the Department of Civil Engineering), it’s not...
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Roundabout hosts retrospective of art by Abie Harris
Abie Harris will turn 80 in early January, and his friends and colleagues at the Roundabout Art Collective in Raleigh have come up with a special way to celebrate the occasion and Harris’ long ties to...
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Riddick’s legacy will always be alive on NC State’s campus
The last remnants of Riddick Stadium, as noted in the winter issue of NC State magazine, came down last April when the stadium’s field house was demolished to improve pedestrian access and safety near...
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Today in NC State History: Campus set to get physical
It was the 1960s and the newly organized School of Physical Sciences and Applied Math was growing so much so that it needed more space for its Department of Physics. And on this day in 1962 NC State...
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Today in NC State History: Student Center named for Witherspoon
Augustus Witherspoon was a pioneer at NC State. He was the second African-American to earn a Ph.D. from NC State (he also earned a master’s at NC State) and the first African-American professor (of...
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Part of Gregg art collection now on view at Park Alumni Center
Visitors to the Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center can now enjoy artwork previously displayed at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. With the renovation and expansion of Talley Student Union...
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Today in NC State History: First dean of student affairs named
Up until the mid-1950s, the dean of students was a position mostly concerned with doling out discipline and delving into student attendance. But there emerged a clear need for the position to foster...
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Today in NC State History: English department on the move
NC State’s Department of English had been housed in Winston Hall for 20 years in the spring of 1980. But due to space constraints and a move into the digital age, it was announced on this day in 34...
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