NC State Is Intellectual

Our high-performing students, faculty, scholars and researchers are pushing back the horizons of academic inquiry and scientific discovery.

Undergraduate researcher Neil Baugh, a Goldwater Scholar, works in a lab.

Our Gold Standard

Neil Baugh is launching a startup that will create and commercialize a nanomaterial additive that strengthens common materials. Ana Sofia Uzsoy is developing new computational tools in molecular biophysics research. Rachel Chen is a co-author of two peer-reviewed journal articles in statistical genetics research. Nikhil Milind is melding genetics with computer science to understand complex diseases.

And they’re still undergraduates.

We selected these extraordinary researchers as our four 2019 nominees for the Goldwater Scholarship, one of the nation’s top undergraduate awards for achievement and promise in STEM research — and all four of them won.

They’re just a few of the NC State students who are winning highly regarded national honors, including Fulbright grants, Udall Scholarships, Knight-Hennessy Scholarships, Gilman Scholarships, the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize and National Science Foundation research fellowships. And this is only the beginning of their bright futures.

4 for 4

All four of our 2019 Goldwater Scholarship nominees were chosen to win the prestigious scholarship.

#3

NC State ranks near the top among national research universities in producing Fulbright Scholars.

Early-Career Excellence

Every year, the National Science Foundation presents the competitive Early Career Award to college and university faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the NSF presented the award to nine NC State researchers in fields spanning biomedical engineering, chemistry, educational psychology, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, mechanical and aerospace engineering, plant and microbial biology, and sustainability science and engineering.

100+students

have won national scholarships and fellowships in the past five years.

23faculty

are members of the National Academies.

Maria Oliver-Hoyo, a faculty member in NC State's College of Sciences

A Fulbright Leader

This year, NC State again made the list of research institutions producing the most Fulbright U.S. Scholars. We’re No. 3 among national research universities in the number of scholars who win grants from this prestigious program, which provides funding to study, teach English and conduct research overseas.

Our eight researchers who won this award spent the 2018-2019 academic year studying big problems at host universities in Uruguay, Norway, Sri Lanka and other locations around the world.