University Archives student research projects collection, 1970-2007 [manuscript]

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University Archives student research projects collection, 1970-2007 [manuscript]

This sub-group consists of undergraduate student research project papers on a variety of subjects relating to University history. All of the papers contained herein used primary source material in the University Archives. The provenance is uncertain, as in most cases it is not known whether they came from the students or their professors. The papers are arranged alphabetically by author.

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North Carolina State University. University Archives

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North Carolina State University was established in 1887 as the North Carolina College for Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The College opened in 1889 with one building - the current Holladay Hall - six faculty, and courses in the agricultural and mechanical arts, adding a curriculum in applied science in 1893. By the turn of the century the College had grown to some half dozen buildings, about 300 students, and had begun to diversify its curricula. In 1931 the College greatly reworked its curricul...

Cox, Gertrude M.

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Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978) served as head of the Statistics Department at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1940 to 1949. She played an important role in founding the Research Triangle Institute in 1959 and held the position of Director, Statistics Research Division at the Institute from 1959 until 1964. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. In 1956 she was elected President of the American Statistical ...

North Carolina State University

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Currently, there are 24 University Standing Committees. Members of each of the University Standing Committees are appointed by the chancellor at the beginning of each academic year. The Committee on Committees provides the chancellor with recommendations concerning the composition and charge for each committee, its chair, and its faculty, staff, and student members. These recommendations are in part based on voluntary expressed preferences, on a general principle of rotation, and, whenever appro...