9 collections related to College teachers -- North Carolina

The Edward T. Funkhouser Photographs consists of color photographs, taken by Funkhouser, depicting the campus of North Carolina State University and nearby parts of Raleigh, North Carolina, 2001-2015. Also included are a few images of Fayetteville, NC, sites (Gen. Shelton statue, Veterans Park, Bragg Boulevard), 2014. Most of the photographs are digital images in JPG format. Edward Truman Funkhouser (1946- ) has been a professor of speech and communication at NC State University since 1977. He has also served as an administrator in the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds a B.S. from Madison College, an M.A. from Memphis State University, and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. He has been the public address announcer for NC State football and women's basketball games. His interest in photography has resulted in the creation of thousands of images of the NC State campus; Raleigh, North Carolina; and other locales. Less

The Frank Houston Smith Papers consist of documents related to Smith and Drs. John O. Halverson and Francis W. Sherwood, two of his colleagues at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station (later Agricultural Research Service) at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). The bulk of the collection, 1929-1942, consists of professional correspondence of Halverson regarding gossypol, a toxin in cotton plants and cottonseed meal. Frank Houston Smith (b. 1903) of Cornelius, North Carolina, was a researcher and professor of animal nutrition at North Carolina State University from 1928 to 1973. He specialized in research on gossypol. Less

The Henry Brower Smith Papers consist of correspondence and related materials, 1970-1972, involving the Medical Plastics Corporation of America and the company's development and marketing of a line of products containing the controversial antibacterial agent hexachlorophene. Henry Brower Smith (1917-1992) was a chemical engineer from Durham, North Carolina. After a career that included positions as director of research at General Foods Corporation and vice president of Armour Grocery Products, he was a professor of chemical engineering, associate dean of engineering, and then vice provost and dean for research at North Carolina State University from 1965 to 1983. From 1970 to 1972, Smith was as a member of the board of directors of the Medical Plastics Corporation of America. Less

The J. Lawrence Apple Papers contain papers, lectures, and policy planning documents, 1967-1986, by Apple, a professor of plant pathology and genetics at North Carolina State University. Jay Lawrence Apple (1926- ), a native of Guilford County, North Carolina, and graduate of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University), was a professor of plant pathology and genetics at North Carolina State University from 1955 to 1991. He was founder and secretary general of the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, which was established in 1999 as an umbrella organization over the International Plant Protection Congresses, quadrennial conferences for the promotion of integrated pest management. Less

The James K. Ferrell Papers, 1940-2000, include publications, reports, memoranda, a scrapbook, and other items demonstrating the history of the North Carolina State University Dept. of Chemical Engineering and the North Carolina State University College of Engineering (formerly the School of Engineering); annual reports, memoranda, correspondence, proposals, reviews, and other items related to the administration of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, the College of Engineering, and the Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC); and research papers, proceedings, reports, publications, and slides produced through or related to Ferrell's research projects in chemical engineering, the bulk of which pertains to his work on two-phase flow and coal gasification. James K. Ferrell (1923-2001) received the first doctoral degree awarded in chemical engineering by North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1954. After working in industry, Ferrell returned to NC State in 1956. He became a full professor in 1961 and served as head of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering from 1966 to 1980. In 1965, Ferrell was instrumental in bringing the Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC) to fruition, a mainframe system that served NC State along with Duke University, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park. Less

The Lloyd Robert Zumwalt Papers consist of reports and papers authored and coauthored by Zumwalt while he was with the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation and was a professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University, 1960-1975; materials related to his participation in a Sierra Club conference, 1972, and a university workshop, 1978; and student papers and course materials from classes in nuclear engineering he taught at N.C. State, 1968-1975. Lloyd Robert Zumwalt (1914-1998) was a nuclear chemist from Richmond, California, who worked for the Manhattan Project during World War II. After working for General Atomic in the 1960s, he was a professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University from 1967 to 1980. Less

The Samuel B. Tove Papers consist largely of materials, 1962-1967, related to Tove's membership on an advisory committee that formulated proposals for the establishment of a doctoral program in biochemistry at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). Other materials in this collection document Tove's membership in three other committees at North Carolina State: the program committee of the university's annual Animal Nutrition Conference, an ad hoc building committee on improvements to Polk Hall, and the Watauga Medal selection committee. Samuel B. Tove (1921-1994) of Baltimore, Maryland, was a researcher and professor of animal science and biochemistry at North Carolina State University from 1950 to 1987. A renowned authority on lipid metabolisms, he was a William Neal Reynolds Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry. Less

The William Ludwig Baumgarten Papers consist of photographs and student works. The photographs are black and white prints dating from the 1930s, showing residences, stores, schools, and restaurants in Vienna and perhaps elsewhere in Europe, presumably designed by Baumgarten.Student works include illustrated student papers, as well as a blank exam, from classes in the history of architecture Baumgarten taught at the at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) School of Design in the 1950s. William Ludwig Baumgarten (1885-1959), a native of Austria and graduate of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, was a renowned architect in Europe before he immigrated to the United States. He was a professor of architecture at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering from 1940 to 1958. Less