From campus construction debris to electronics and other items banned from North Carolina landfills, this multipurpose recycling and disposal facility takes in the misfits of discarded material—the items that traditional municipal waste or recycling won’t accept. Read the full story at University Sustainability.

The 10 honorees will be enshrined at the second Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Reynolds Coliseum on Nov. 22. They will also be honored at halftime of the NC State-East Carolina football game the next day. Read the complete story on GoPack.com.

In the coming months, the university will begin creating new Business Operations Centers, or BOCs, to reduce paperwork and eliminate bottlenecks for people who rely on business processes, such as travel authorizations, purchasing, time reporting, employee recruitment and hiring.

At the forums, leaders of University Business Operations will discuss the new organizational  structure for delivering business services, and explain how the BOCs will be staffed. They’ll also give a progress report on efforts to reengineer many business processes – a complex initiative involving teams of finance and human resource professionals who have been working tirelessly to identify and eliminate unnecessary “pain points” that add cost but not value.

The new and  improved processes will be rolled out in the BOCs and then closely monitored to ensure that they work as designed. Processes will be evaluated and refined constantly as part of the division’s commitment to continuous improvement.

The reorganization of business services was launched in January 2011 as part of the university’s strategic planning effort. Over the coming year, many finance and human resource transactions will be lifted out of individual units and colleges—along with many of the people who perform them—and moved into the BOCs. Current NC State employees who move to the BOCs will receive new training, resources and opportunities as part of the initiative.

The new centers will focus on delivering nearly flawless service. Over time, the BOCs are expected to save the university money by achieving economies of scale, improving processing times and reducing errors.

The first BOC is an Onboarding Center, set to open this month in the Joyner Visitor Center, that will coordinate all the activities involved in processing new hires. The others are scheduled to open as follows:

Cates Avenue Partial Road Closure May 13 through  Aug. 15:

• CLOSED to through traffic from First Year College to Morrill Drive.
• One lane of traffic will remain open for emergency vehicles and Talley dump trucks.
• Cates Avenue REMAINS OPEN to pedestrian traffic.
• Cates Avenue Steam Plant parking is CLOSED.

Talley Student Center: 

• More than half of the SV/loading dock lot (between Talley and Reynolds) will be closed from May 13 until December for demo and staging.
• The first bay in the Jeter bay lot (row of parking closest to Dunn Avenue) is reserved from May 13 through Aug. 15 for Talley staging.

Jordan, Biltmore, Robertson and Pulp & Paper May 13 through Aug. 15:

• Natural resources lot (parking lot north of buildings) will be CLOSED to through traffic.
• Periodically expect to see a few parking spaces reserved behind Jordan Hall for several interior renovation jobs.

Lee Hall Interior Renovations May 13 through Aug. 15:

• The small Lee employee/SV lot is reserved for staging.
• SV spaces have been relocated in the Lee lot RW area, along the tree line facing the Parent Park (recreation area along the greenway).

College of Textiles Interior Renovations May 6 through Aug. 15: 

• A couple of spaces are reserved for a renovation project in the small parking lot off Main Campus Drive.
• A few additional spaces may be reserved for a separate renovation project over the summer.

Kilgore Stairs Project May 13 through July 15:

• Three spaces in the Scott lot have been reserved for the stair project.
• There is SV parking behind Kilgore Hall.

Brickyard Broughton Wall and Path May 15 through June 14: 

• Four spaces reserved on Broughton Drive (just west of Patterson) for this project.

Method Road Stairs May 13 through June 15: 

• Four spaces are reserved in the Method Road complex lot, along Method Road near the soccer fields.

Peele Lot May 15:

• A few spaces are reserved in Peele lot to accommodate a furniture delivery; please do not move cones from parking spaces.
• A few spaces will also be reserved on Current Drive near Park Shops as part of a move.

Transportation-related questions? Contact Tara Lanier, tjlanier@ncsu. If it’s a construction-related issue, she will direct you to the appropriate construction project manager.

Other members include Brent Lane, executive director of the UNC Center for Competitive Economies, and economics professors Ben Russo and John Connaughton from UNC-Charlotte.

Sawyers is a professor of accounting and Walden is a professor of agricultural and resource economics.

The delegation from the University of Adelaide poses for a picture in front of Hunt Library with NC State faculty, industry leaders and workshop organizers.

NC State and the University of Adelaide have a strategic partnership to advance research collaboration and academic exchanges across areas of complementary strength and expertise.

The workshop included presentations, discussions and strategic planning in plant breeding, plant science, food bioprocessing and nutrition, soil science and animal sciences. Biotechnology partners in the Research Triangle Park attended the workshop. Facilitated collaborative brainstorming sessions, called innovation “sandpit” sessions, resulted in at least five letters of intent for multiple grant applications.

NC State and University of Adelaide students can participate in semester or yearlong exchange programs between the two institutions beginning next spring. Information about the exchange program is now available through the Study Abroad Office.

PFL programs are designed to establish a foundation for lifelong professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Since 2007, PFL has delivered 617 events to more than 14,000 participants. The PFL Celebration of Graduate Student Success honored participants who completed  the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching program, the Mentoring and Teaching Practicum, the Preparing the Professoriate program, the Graduate Leadership Development Series, the Certificate in Career Development, as well as the inaugural group of PFL Ambassadors.  More than 100 colleagues, friends, family, faculty, and staff members attended the ice cream social and poster session to celebrate NC State’s commitment to excellence in professional development.

Provost Warwick Arden congratulated the students and postdocs.

“You, our graduate students, are critical to the success of NC State,” he said. “We want to celebrate your dedication and commitment in supporting and advancing the mission of our university. You are our next generation of leaders in the academy, in industry and in our communities. Many of you are already shaping the future with your commitment to teaching, research, leadership and service.”

Menglong Hu, Ph.D. student in chemistry, served as the keynote speaker for the ceremony. He successfully completed the Graduate Leadership Development Series, and now serves as a PFL Ambassador.

“Through PFL, I learned about leadership, communication skills, career development and teaching,” he said. “I learned how to handle an interview, how to motivate my students in class, how to conduct my research, how to deal with the conflict and how to teach effectively. I always knew that those skills were very important for my future development, but I couldn’t find a way to learn them systematically. PFL provided me the channel, a channel I can’t find anywhere else.”

Arden joined Rebeca Rufty, Barbi Honeycutt, Melissa Bostrom and Beth Overman as they awarded 111 certificates to students who successfully completed the PFL programs. The recipients of each award are:

PFL Ambassadors 2012-2013

• Alicain S. Carlson, Horticultural Science
• Natalie Kathleen Cooke, Nutrition
• Chirag R. Gajjar, Fiber & Polymer Science
• Menglong Hu, Chemistry
• Marc Philip Kai, Chemical Engineering
• Haritha Malladi, Civil Engineering
• Barry Peddycord III, Computer Science
• Katherine Ryker, Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences
• Molly Hartzog Storment, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media
• Audrey Kayo Watanabe, Industrial Design

Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching Graduates, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

• Alecia Anderson, Sociology & Anthropology
• Bethany Bradshaw, English
• Shanita Brown, Curriculum & Instruction
• Gerald S. Burgner, Horticultural Science
• Mangesh Champhekar*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Hammad Arshad Cheema*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Hui Cong*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Angel Elisa Cruz, Crop Science
• Kathy DeBusk, Biological & Agricultural Engineering
• Joshua Dillard, Design
• Robert Dinterman, Economics
• William J. Gabler*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Ladan Ghobad, Design
• Alexander Gill, Economics
• Ursula Hairston, Office for Institutional Equality & Diversity
• George Hallowell, Architecture
• Christina Harrington, Design
• Allison Hedges, Mathematics
• Maqbool Hussain*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Jennifer A. Kimball, Crop Science
• Jana Koehler, English
• Meng Li, Statistics
• Shuang Liang, Chemistry
• Devorah A. Marks Stowe, Population Health & Pathobiology
• Avinav Nandgaonkar*, Fiber & Polymer Science
• Jacob Norton, Mathematics
• Irina Pritchett, Management
• Margaret Rahmoeller, Mathematics
• Srinivasan Rasipuram, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Kelley Rathod, Graphic Design
• Stephanie Riche, Economics
• Kelly Rockwell, Biology
• Jennifer Sabourin, Computer Science
• Soundarya Srirangan, Plant Biology
• Kevin D. Stallings, Crop Science
• Robert Thomas Super III, History
• Jeffrey Charles Swift, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media
• Sameer Sudhakar Tendulkar, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Wenwen Zhang*, Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, & Science
• Jiameng Zheng, Plant Biology

* TECS graduates under the leadership of Stephen Michielsen.

Chemistry Teaching Certificate Graduates, Fall 2012 -Spring 2013

•  Leiah Carey, Chemistry
• James McCord, Chemistry
• Jonathan Mills, Chemistry
• Tara Moening, Chemistry
• Caleb Porter, Chemistry

Preparing the Professoriate Fellows and Mentors, 2012-2013

• Alyssa Armstrong, Mathematics; Mentor: Kailash Misra
• Robert W. Benim, Mathematics; Mentor: Alina Duca
• Jennifer Dixon, Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences; Mentor: Dave DeMaster
• David Fiala, Computer Science; Mentors: Sarah Heckman and Frank Mueller
• Kathleen Foote, Physics; Mentor: Albert Young
• Rachael Gordon-Wright, Mathematics; Mentor: Pierre Gremaud
• John T. Holodnak, Mathematics; Mentor: Bojko Bakalov
• Jess Houle, Entomology; Mentor: Clyde Sorenson
• Tara D. Hudson, Educational Research & Policy Analysis; Mentor: Audrey Jaeger
• Rupa Iasmin, Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering; Mentor: Joel Ducoste
• Meagan Kittle Autry, Communications, Rhetoric, & Digital Media; Mentor: David Rieder
• Dan Maroncelli, Mathematics; Mentors: Brenda Burns-Williams and Ernest Stitzinger
• Kestrel McCorkle, Plant Pathology; Mentor: H. David Shew
• Emily Gray Medlin, Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Mentor: Shannon Pratt-Phillips
• Nicole Nesheim, Curriculum & Instruction; Mentor: Carol Pope
• Tamara Pandolfo, Zoology; Mentors: Nick Haddad and Thomas Wentworth
• Terrance Pendleton, Mathematics; Mentor: Alina Chertock
• Brian Piper, Operations Research; Mentor: Ranji Ranjithan
• Srinivasan Rasipuram, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Mentor: Andrey Kuznetsov
• Nathaniel J. Schwartz, Mathematics; Mentor: Molly Fenn
• Guillermo Velarde, Forest Biomaterials; Mentors: Daniel Saloni and Richard Lemaster
• Brittney M. VornDick, Physics; Mentors: David Aspnes and David Haase
• Justin Wright, Mathematics; Mentor: Hoon Hong

Mentoring and Teaching Practicum – Graduates and Mentors, Spring 2013

• Christine M. Bergeron, Toxicology; Mentor: Francie Cuffney, Meredith College
• Nathanial Burch, Mathematics; Mentors: Stephen Robinson, Wake Forest University and Kirsten Doehler, Elon University
• Natalie Kathleen Cooke, Nutrition; Mentor: Lauren Halderman, UNC Greensboro
• Aaron Freeman Fox, Crop Science; Mentor: Steve Moore, Elon University
• Molly Erin Meachum, English; Mentor:  Paige Vinson, Durham Technical Community College

Graduate Leadership Development Series Graduates, 2012 – 2013

• Juhee Bae, Computer Science
• Venkata Krishnan Chandramouli, Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Hana Chmielewski, Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering
• Lei He, Economics
• Abhay Joijode, Fiber & Polymer Science
• Carissa Lada, Material Science & Engineering
• Mary Lewis, Plant Pathology
• Suzanne Martin, Social Work
• Veronica Mbaneme, Biological & Agricultural Engineering
• Ana McClanahan, Leadership, Policy, & Adult and Higher Education
• Aparna Mohan, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Kesireddy Rakeshreddy, Civil Engineering
• Maria Riaz, Computer Science
• Ravikanth Vangala, Textile Technology Management
• Hui Wang, Operations Research