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The NC State Forestry Team took home the championship at the annual Conclave, an event based around forestry skills such as logging, timer estimation, sawing, and log rolling.
The department began to update curriculum to become "more relevant to the current emphases on the environmental aspects of materials," that dealt with pollution control and the effects of materials and processes on the environment. New undergraduate courses were introduced, including Materials and the Environment, Environmental Aspects of Materials Processing, and Materials and Civilization.
Dr. Manning and graduate student Lyn David Lineback received the NASA Achievement Award for Research & Development for their project, "Thermal Shock Resistant Hafnia Ceramic Materials."
Due to the fire in old Pullen Hall, a new building was built and opened specifically for the music department. The center was named after the first director of music, Percy W. Price, in 1973.
Carl Ray Barnes was the first African-American student to earn an undergraduate degree in botany.
The Materials Engineering department co-hosted the Research Conference on Severe Environments with NASA; the US Army Research Office based out of Durham, NC; and the US Air Force Aerospace Research Laboratories. Drs. W. W. Kriegel and Hayne Palmour III co-edited the publication "Ceramics in Severe Environments" (1972) as a result of the conference proceedings.
All-American basketball player Tommy Burleson announced his decision to accept a scholarship offer to play for NC State. Burleson would go on to be a key member of NC State's 1974 National Championship team. He was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team. In 2013, he was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.
The Consolidation Act was passed by the North Carolina General Assembly with some of the following provisions: State College became one of three campuses of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included UNC-Chapel Hill and the Women's College in Greensboro. State College's Board of Trustees was abolished, and a new board of trustees was established to oversee all three of the campuses. This arrangement continued until the creation of the UNC System in 1972.
