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NC State Celebrates 125th Birthday

WUNC | By Leoneda Inge

Published April 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM EDT

NCSU

Birthday cake and ice cream will be served on NC State’s campus today. The Wolf-pack is 125-years-old.

Leoneda Inge: NC State has a lot to celebrate from the classroom, to research laboratories to the basketball court. A new video highlights 125 years of accomplishments – featuring a quote from longtime NC State Chancellor John Tyler Caldwell.

John Tyler Caldwell: You just don’t know how magnificent you might be…think big, think big.

Brad Bohlander is a spokesman for NC State.

Brad Bohlander: NC State has really always done work that matters in the state. It’s educating the future workforce of tomorrow, it’s driving economic impact.

Today’s birthday party begins at 1:30pm in Reynolds Coliseum. The men’s basketball team will also be honored.

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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