 North Carolina State University Seal North Carolina State University is an institution of higher learning located in Raleigh, North Carolina. North Carolina State University was founded and designated as the state's first land-grant institution by the General Assembly in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
NCSU is currently led by interim chancellor Bob Barnhardt; NCSU provost James Oblinger will become the school's 13th chief executive in January 2005. The previous head, Marye Anne Fox, departed in July 2004 to lead the University of California, San Diego.
Academics
With historical strengths in agriculture, engineering, and textiles, it is perhaps most widely recognized as one of the three anchors of North Carolina's Research Triangle, together with Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With more than 29,000 students, it is also the largest university in the University of North Carolina System and in the state of North Carolina. The NCSU Library, ranked 32nd out of 113 North American research libraries, includes 3,210,612 print volumes and 51,209 print and electronic serial subscriptions.
Notable current faculty include aquatic botanist JoAnn Burkholder, chemist Mike Whangbo, linguist Walt Wolfram, computer engineer Donald Bitzer, entomologist George Kennedy, and science-fiction author John Kessel.
Athletics
Athletic teams are called the Wolfpack. North Carolina State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Four of the past five years, NC States football coach, Chuck Amato, has lead the Pack to bowl games while the mens basketball team, coached by Herb Sendek, advanced to the second round of the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Womens basketball coach Kay Yow, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, has more than 600 wins to her credit. A new sports arena, the RBC Center, beckons students, alumni, and area residents to come and root for the Wolfpack.
Campus
 Holladay Hall, the first building built on NCSU's campus in 1889, now houses the Chancellor's Office. Architecturally, NCSU is known for its distinctive red brick buildings and the "belltower." Due to oversupply, odd brick statues dot the landscape, a large section of campus is paved over with brick (University Plaza, a.k.a. "the brickyard"), and most sidewalks are also made with brick. These sidewalks are also dotted with white brick mosaics.
Other hotspots on campus include the Free Expression Tunnel, one of three pedestrian tunnels underneath the railroad tracks bisecting the main campus. This particular tunnel is the site of sanctioned graffiti; anyone may tag here, and it is often the place for announcements, birthday messages, and unique art.
The Court of North Carolina, on the northeast side of campus, is surrounded by the 1911 Building; the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tompkins, Caldwell, Winston Halls and Poe Hall; Page Hall, home to College of Engineering offices; and Leazar Hall, location of the Computer Science Teaching Labs.
NC State's main campus is augmented by the modern 1,334 acre (5.4 km²) mixed-use Centennial Campus. This campus is home to university, corporate, and government research, in addition to classrooms and non-student residences. The College of Textiles is based on this campus, and long-term plans have the majority of the College of Engineering relocating to the new campus. The offices of Red Hat and the Raleigh branch of the National Weather Service are also on the Centennial Campus. Located on outlying property belonging to the university are NCSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, Carter-Finley Stadium (football), the RBC Center (men's basketball), and numerous agricultural research and extension facilities throughout the state of North Caroliina.
The Centennial Campus is North Carolina State University's vision of the campus of the futurea "technopolis" of university, corporate and government R&D facilities and business incubators, with an exciting town center, executive conference center and hotel, upscale housing, and recreational amenities.
This 1,334 acre (5.4 km²) site, adjacent to NC State's main campus, is quickly emerging as the Research Triangle Area's fastest growing development. There's no other campus or research park like it in the country.
Centennial Campus is proving to be the logical choice for businesses and government agencies requiring R&D facilities near research faculty and graduate students who can supplement project teams on a just-in-time basis.
The campus is now home to more than 100 large and small companies, government agencies and NC State units.
Alumni
Famous alumni include:
- John Edwards, U.S. Senator and vice-presidential candidate
- James B. Hunt, Jr., 4-term Governor of North Carolina
- Gen. Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the U.S. Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO of the SAS Institute
- Philip Rivers, football player
- Torry Holt, football player
- Roman Gabriel, football player
- Roy H. Park, communications executive
- John Tesh, musician
Chief Executives
President
- Alexander Q. Holladay 1889-1899
- George T. Winston 1899-1908
- Daniel H. Hill, Jr. 1908-1916
- Wallace Carl Riddick 1916-1923
- Eugene C. Brooks 1923-1934
Dean of Administration
- John W. Harrelson 1934-1945
Chancellor
- John W. Harrelson 1945-1953
- Carey Hoyt Bostian 1953-1959
- John T. Caldwell 1959-1975
- Jackson A. Rigney (interim) 1975
- Joab Thomas 1975-1981
- Nash Winstead (interim) 1981-1982
- Bruce Poulton 1982-1989
- Larry K. Monteith 1989-1998
- Marye Anne Fox 1998-2004
- Robert Barnhardt (interim) 2004
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