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Lelani on a boat

Sep 5, 2025

Lelani Williamson Explores Oxford University

Lelani Williamson is in the Caldwell Class of 2027, majoring in English with a double minor in Africana Studies and Political Science.
Kathy Harris Cooper, Phyllis Brown Harris and Kacey Cooper on the Court of the Carolinas in front of the 1911 Building

Feb 14, 2023

A New Chapter in a Family Story

Kacey Cooper ’23 grew up hearing stories of NC State from family members who worked at the university. With support from the Nell Family Extraordinary Opportunity Scholarship, she’s continuing their legacy as a first-generation college graduate.

May 17, 2022

Emma Carter Wins Student Media’s Inaugural Phillips Award

Emma Carter, a fourth-year student studying graphic design and English, was recently awarded the inaugural Dean Phillips Award for General Excellence. The award comes with a monetary prize made possible by support for the Student Media Enhancement Fund.

Feb 25, 2021

Second-Year MFA Student, Isaac Hughes Green, Won the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize & 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers!

Congratulations to our second-year MFA student, Isaac Hughes Green, for winning the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize for his work, “Fifteens.” In addition, he won the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! We couldn’t be more proud of him! #WolfpackWriters #GoPack Our English Department reached out to him to share a few…

Feb 23, 2021

Nollenberger Presented at 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU

First-year MA literature concentration student, Sarah Nollenberger, presented at the 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU: “Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties” which ran from February 10th to the 12th of 2021.  Nollenberger’s presentation was titled, “‘To donate to the world a good Maud Martha’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Romantic Imagination” and she argued…

Nov 9, 2020

Student Spotlight: NDS to MSTC Graduate Student, Maggie Thompson

Meet Maggie Thompson, a full-time employee at NC State University who began her experience with us as a Non-Degree Studies (NDS) student and transitioned to a part-time graduate student of the M.S. in Technical Communication program. Despite her busy schedule as the Communications Specialist at the Chancellor’s Office, Thompson shares some of her experience with…

Sep 17, 2020

Student Spotlight: Red Hat Employee and MSTC Alum, Sayee Jadhav

Meet Sayee Jadhav, a current Red Hat employee and M.S. in Technical Communication alum who was also an international student.  Although COVID-19 disrupted much of the normal student life on campus, Jadhav offered us some time away from her teaching assistant responsibilities to tell us about her internship experience at Red Hat. How did you…

Sep 17, 2020

Student Spotlight: Red Hat Employee and MSTC Alum, Sayee Jadhav

Meet Sayee Jadhav, a current Red Hat employee and M.S. in Technical Communication alum who was also an international student.  Although COVID-19 disrupted much of the normal student life on campus, Jadhav offered us some time away from her teaching assistant responsibilities to tell us about her internship experience at Red Hat. How did you…

Jun 15, 2020

Meet our Students: Kelly Keener

Kelly Keener (She/Her/Hers) Hometown: Cary, NC Year: Senior, class of ‘20 Major: English Major with a Concentration in Literature   What are some of your favorite classes? There are so many to choose from! If I had to name just three, I would have to start with Chaucer (ENG 451), American Romanticism (ENG 468), and…

Jun 15, 2020

Meet our Students: Kelly Keener

Kelly Keener (She/Her/Hers) Hometown: Cary, NC Year: Senior, class of ‘20 Major: English Major with a Concentration in Literature   What are some of your favorite classes? There are so many to choose from! If I had to name just three, I would have to start with Chaucer (ENG 451), American Romanticism (ENG 468), and…