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The Burton F. Beers Papers contains personal correspondence, records of Burton F. Beers' tenure as a Fulbright Scholar, material relating to Beers's books, articles on Chinese-American relations, correspondence related to Beers's travels to various Asian countries, information on the North Carolina-China Council of the Asia Society, records of the Asian Curriculum Projects, notes and clippings on the Triangle East Asia Center, and North Carolina State University-related materials. Burton F. Beers (1927-2016) was an expert on United States Far Eastern policy, and served as professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at North Carolina State University, 1955-1995. Beers received an undergraduate degree from Hobart College and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Duke University in 1952 and 1956 respectively. He was a Fellow in East Asian Studies at the Ford Foundation, Harvard University, in 1959-1960, and a Fulbright Lecturer at the National Taiwan University in 1966-1967. At North Carolina State University, Beers was named Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1970; received the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor given by the university to its faculty members, in 1992; and was awarded the Watauga Medal for significant contributions to the advancement of the university in 1998. Beers served as editor-in-chief for two school textbooks—-World History: Patterns of Civilization and Living in Our World. He revised a well-known textbook, The Far East, originally written by his major professor, Paul Clyde. He was a member of the education advisory board of the Asia Society. Less

The C. Edward Stevens Papers, 1957-2005, contain course materials, lecture notes, slides, and publication files related to Stevens' work in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. The bulk of the material is copies of articles by Stevens and others and files related to the preparation of Stevens's publications. C. Edward Stevens was a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. Stevens was a renowned gastrointestinal physiologist and the author of Comparative physiology of the vertebrate digestive system, 1996 (Cambridge University Press). He received doctorates at the University of Minnesota, established his career at Cornell, and came to NC State in 1980. He died in 2008. Less

The Carl F. Zorowski Papers contain items relating to his career as a Professor, Researcher and Department Head of the North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Materials include correspondence, personal papers, course materials, lecture notes, course CD's, handouts and publications. As a researcher, his projects and correspondence reflect his interest in the practical side of engineering. Topics include tire mechanics, metal forming mechanics, shock and vibration, robotics, stress management, and fiber mechanics research. From Zorowski's years as department head, materials include administrative board minutes, curriculum committee reports and building renovation plans. From his work as a professional consultant, materials include correspondence and photographs of cases of mechanical engineering defects. Other materials relate to his time as the Director of the Integrated Systems Engineering Institute and the Southeastern and College Coalition for Engineering. Carl F. Zorowski was born on July 14, 1930 and received a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1952. In 1953, he received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and in 1956 a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Dr. Zorowski began teaching as an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department in 1962. Other positions held at the university consisted of Associate Department Head, Department Head, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He also participated in the Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education. In addition, he served as a consultant for business organizations and professionally testified at court hearings involving machinery failures. Less

The Dana Latch Papers contains items relating to Latch's career as Associate Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University, in the Department of Mathematics. The materials include teaching materials, departmental correspondence, annual faculty reports, and seminar abstracts. While the majority of the materials document Latch's teaching career, reports reflect her expansive research relating to mathematics, 1989-1994. Dana May Latch received her B.A. at Harpur College, State University of New York (SUNY) in 1965, her M.A. in Mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) in 1967, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics at City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate School in 1971. Latch served as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, Lawrence University and North Carolina State University. Her professional career also included positions as Professor of Computer Science and Program Director in Theoretical Computer Science. Her career included instructional innovations, papers published in refereed journals, grants, and seminar talks. Less

The Don W. Hayne Papers contains correspondence, notes, research papers, statistical data sheets, and various other materials relating to Hayne's research on mourning doves, voles, fisheries, and creel surveys. There are also surveys and field research into a variety of other subjects relating loosely to zoology and statistics. Don W. Hayne, born in 1911, was a biometrician, statistician, and researcher in zoology at Michigan State University and North Carolina State University. He was also Technical Director of the Southeastern Statistics Project. He was considered a pioneer in devising quantitative measurements for ecology. He died on May, 18, 2000. Less

The Dorianne Louise Laux Papers contains a wide variety of materials that document her career as a student, poet, and professor in creative writing. Included are published works, manuscript materials, personal and professional correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles, datebooks and calendars, teaching and workshop materials, photographs, literary festival and conference materials, audiovisual recordings of poetry readings, and promotional materials. Also, Laux amassed a collection of materials relating to friends and colleagues, such as poets Jane Hirshfield, Joe Millar, Kim Addonizio, Philip Levine, and Sharon Olds. The collection ranges in date from 1968 to 2019. Dorianne Louise Laux (1952- ) is a poet who authored several collections of poetry, including Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), Smoke (2000), Facts about the Moon (2005),The Book of Men (2011), and Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected (2019). She is also the co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (1997). Laux taught at the University of Oregon’s creative writing program and has been a professor for North Carolina State University's creative writing program since 2008, and core faculty at the MFA Writing Program at Pacific University since 2006. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary American poetry, women's poetry, the poetry of work and class, the poetry of sex and death, narrative design in poetry and short fiction, close readings of works, and poetry broadsides. Less

The Doris Elizabeth King Papers (1950-2014) contain 124.5 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, publications, article drafts, notecards, news clippings, photocopies, course files, and audiotapes. Most of these materials document King's research on the history of the American hotel and motel industry. This includes hotel/motel directories from the 1960s and 1970s and reel-to-reel audiotapes of King's interviews (1960s) with industry leaders. There are also files from King's service on North Carolina State University's Committee on Institutional History and Commemoration (1980s-1990s). There are a few personal files in this collection. King's research on Mary Yarbrough and the naming of Mary Yarbrough Court on the NC State University campus exist in the Mary Yarbrough Papers. Doris Elizabeth King (1925-2015) was a longtime professor of history at North Carolina State University. Born in Cairo, Georgia, she graduated (1945) as valedictorian of Georgia State Women's College at Valdosta. She later attended Duke University, where she earned M.A. (1947) and Ph.D. (1952) in history, and she was one of the first women awarded a scholarship for Ph.D. studies at Duke. She taught at Campbell College, Stephen F. Austin State College, and Wesleyan College from 1951 to 1962. She was the official historian of the American Hotel and Motel Association from 1962 to 1966. She joined the NC State University faculty in 1966 and remained until retirement in 1991. Her research focused on the history of the American hotel and motel industry. King was a friend of Mary Yarbrough, one of the first women to earn a degree from NC State, and she played an instrumental role in the naming of Mary Yarbrough Court on the university's campus. Less

The John Brake Papers include research and subject files, Broiler Breeder Research Workshop Workbooks, flash drives, electronic files transferred via external hard drive, and class materials both from Dr. Brake's teaching and from his years as an undergraduate at NC State University. Topics include improving chicken health, breeding, and egg quality. Materials range in date from 1950 to 2019, with the bulk of the materials being from the 1970s-2000s. The materials from the 1950s and 1960s are research papers and publications that Dr. Brake kept for reference. This collection also contains information on NC State University Chicken Education Units and other poultry science facilities. John Thomas Brake (1952-2018) was a member of the faculty of NC State University, beginning as an assistant professor of Poultry Science in 1981. In 2001, he was named William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He also served as Director of Graduate and Certificate Programs for the Prestage Department of Poultry Science from 2003 to 2017. Less

The John Campbell Papers document the life and research of John S. Campbell, a British native who devoted his life's work to tropical agriculture and tobacco. The collection features his research, experiments, and writings about tropical agriculture done in the early part of his career, as well as later work conducted as a tobacco executive in North Carolina. Campbell also taught agriculture courses at North Carolina State University. The collection contains a large number of reprints and articles in the areas of tropical agriculture and tobacco. Less

The Kenneth O. Beatty Papers contain both the professional and personal papers of the North Carolina State University chemical engineering professor. Included are professional and personal correspondence; research proposals; notes, reports, drafts of articles, speeches, and conference papers; university committee files; photographs and newspaper clippings; a scrapbook and several historical accounts of the North Carolina State University Department of Chemical Engineering; poetry; and other documents. Kenneth Orion Beatty was a professor of chemical engineering, 1946-1978, at North Carolina State University. His research interests included heat and mass transfer field, and in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a major participant in the International Heat Transfer Conferences. He also worked on languages for the blind and braille accessibility and functionality. After retirement, he was known as an expert witness in slip-and-fall and arson cases. Less

The Kofi Boone Papers contains architectural drawings, studies, correspondence, files, and media clippings for projects that span Boone's student and professional careers. Boone's documented projects include: master plans completed during graduate school at the University of Michigan; urban design guidelines, planning analyses and public park designs completed at the multidisciplinary firm JJR Inc.; and participatory designs and place-based storytelling efforts completed out of the NC State Department of Landscape Architecture. Most graduate school and JJR projects are located in the Detroit area, and most NC State projects are located in North Carolina. The collection also includes web content: The Cultural Landscape Foundation blog, The Landscape Architecture Podcast, and a website featuring Kofi Boone's "Black Landscapes Matter" article. Kofi Boone is an African American landscape architect and a professor in the NC State University Department of Landscape Architecture within the College of Design. Boone joined the Department of Landscape Architecture faculty in 2004. Through scholarship, teaching and extension service, Boone works in the landscape context of environmental justice and explores the use of new media as a means of increasing community input in design and planning processes. Less

The Michael Overcash Papers contain materials, 1928-2007, documenting Overcash's career as a North Carolina State University faculty member in chemical, biological and agricultural engineering, who studied industrial pollution prevention, waste minimization, life cycle inventory research, and sustainability. Included are reports, research files, computer data and disks, correspondence, and field studies. Also included are scientific literature, catalogs, journals, laboratory notebooks, and published papers. Michael R. Overcash was assistant professor, 1972-1976, and associate professor, 1976-1981, of chemical engineering and biological and agricultural enginnering, and professor, 1981-2007, of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University. Since 2007, Overcash has been a vsiting scholar in industrial and manufaturing engineering at Wichita State University. Overcash has developed an in-depth national research program in two distinctive areas--life cycle inventory research and sustainability research. He has published books on techniques for industrial pollution prevention, organics in municipal sludge land treatment systems, livestock waste management systems, and related subjects. Less

Records relating to projects and initiatives undertaken by the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University and related programs for the years 1924 - 1985. These records contain articles, brochures, budget records, clippings, photographs, memoranda, and correspondence. Included is information on faculty members, lectures, and department finances. The School of Textiles (later College of Textiles) at North Carolina State University began classes in the fall of 1899, primarily due to Daniel Tompkins's interest in having a textile program at what was then the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Since 1963, the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management (TATM) has functioned as a discrete department (albeit under several different names) within the the College of Textiles. Of course, the College of Textiles has conducted research since its earliest days, both independently and in collaboration with corporate and government partners. And it appears that many of the College's pre-1963 research records have been merged with those of the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Committee on Undergraduate Program Review (CUPR), primarily include materials that relate to academic program reviews on curriculum or degree programs, within the University's Department of Agricultural and Extension Education as well as other departments. Examples of materials contained in this collection include agendas, minutes, annual reports, portfolio examples and materials that specifically relate to accounting and poultry science. Materials range in dates from 2003 to 2005. The North Carolina State University Committee on Undergraduate Program Review (CUPR) was created by the Vice Provost in 2000 and charged with focusing on a myriad of activities and processes related to undergraduate academic program development, review, evaluation and improvement. With primary faculty oversight, the mission of the CUPR was to schedule and manage the submission of portfolios submitted as part of the undergraduate program review process; identify needed forms of support for the process including administrative, educational, technological, and financial support; and advise the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs on all issues related to the program review process. This Committee still appears to be active as of 2012. Less

The Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee Records include memos, correspondence, flyers, and other records produced by the North Carolina State University Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee from 1979 to 1992, with a gap from 1981 to 1989. While the purpose of the committee was to review and recommend students from NC State University to preprofessional health sciences programs, the information contained within the collection primarily concerns committee duties such as establishing contacts the admissions departments of these programs, maintaining members of the committee, and electing chairs of the committee. Later records contain averaged data about students who were accepted to preprofessional health sciences programs and information about program requirements that the committee would need in order to better assist future applicants. The North Carolina State University Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee is a group that reviews students' professional school application packages. The committee has been renamed the North Carolina State University Health Professions Review Committee. This committee is comprised of faculty from different areas that review all medical, dental, optometry, physician assistant and pharmacy applicants who choose to have their files reviewed by the committee and a composite submitted on their behalf. The committee makes a "university committee recommendation" for each applicant reviewed and submits this along with the student's "composite" review committee recommendation to each school to which they ask to have their file sent. The committee began in 1975 according to a piece of correspondence in the collection and exists in the present as of 2012, but there is no clear mention of specific people associated with beginning this committee. During the time of the collection that dates from 1979 to 1992, Dr. John Roberts and former Chancellor Dr. James L. Oblinger. At that time, Oblinger was Associate Dean of Academic Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University State Employees Combined Campaign Committee (formerly United Fund) records include meeting minutes, letters, agendas and financial reports. Materials range in date from 1950 to 1993. The North Carolina State College United Fund Committee was established at North Carolina State College (later, University) in 1950. The work of the United Fund Committee was taken over by the State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC), which was established in 1984 by Governor James B. Hunt. The principal aim of the committee was to strengthen and sustain North Carolina and its citizens. The campaign assures employees and retirees continuous opportunity to support charitable organizations that are accountable, fiscally sound, and committed to improving the quality of life in our state, nation and world. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Teaching Effectiveness and Evaluation Committee include meeting minutes, memoranda, committee reports on student and course evaluations and copies of the Emphasis Teaching and Learning newsletter. Materials range in dates from 1978 to 1994. The North Carolina State University Teaching Effectiveness and Evaluation Committee was established in June 1984 by the Chancellor of North Carolina State University. The committee reported to the Provost and had a broad range of responsibilities that included examining the effectiveness of current techniques of faculty evaluation, identifying and making recommendations on all factors affecting teaching effectiveness, collecting and disseminating information regarding experimental programs and the successes and failures of different methods of instruction, and evaluating the effectiveness of utilizing graduate students as teachers. Less

The Faculty Senate General Records contain files of all administrative aspects of the Faculty Senate. The bulk of the records come from different committees and include materials on honorary degrees, the search for a new chancellor, Board of Trustees, Chancellor's Liasion, elections, budget, and student affairs. Also included are materials on the selection of outstanding teachers and Watauga Medal recepients, retention of African American students, Founders Day events, and other administrative functions of the Faculty Senate. The first Faculty Council meetings were held in 1923, and the Council remained in place as an ad hoc advisory board to the then College President. At one point in time this faculty group may have also been called the Advisory Committee of the General Faculty. In 1954, the Faculty Senate was organized to replace the old Faculty Council. Less