Found 34 events matching "1953 "
A game in the 4th annual World Series of Basketball, featuring the 1953 All-Americans against the Harlem Globetrotters, was played in Reynolds Coliseum.
For the first time, NC State began publishing a separate catalog for graduate studies. The first graduate catalog covered the academic year 1953-1954.
The civil engineering construction (CEC) option degree program was approved and the curriculum was developed by Carroll Lamb Mann Jr. who joined faculty in 1953.
The Southern Conference Tournament moved to Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium. Raleigh was the site of the Southern Conference Tournament until 1953 and later the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament beginning in 1954.
The Board of Trustees agreed to transition the academic calendar from a quarter system to a semester system by a vote of 46-28. NC State switched over in the fall semester of 1953.
John William Harrelson, class of 1909, was appointed head of the college. He led NC State until 1953. (Biography of John Harrelson)
A popular myth that there was a "high academic mortality rate" for School of Design students was debunked by the Technician. Of the 629 students enrolled in the School of Design, only 12 received flunking grades at a 2% mortality rate. This was much less than the rumored rate of 10%.
Dr. Carey Hoyt Bostian became the seventh person to lead NC State. He served on the NC State faculty since 1930. In 1959, he stepped down as chancellor to return to teaching. (Biography of Carey Bostian)
The R-1 reactor was the first non-government-run nuclear reactor in the world and the first designed, built, and operated by an academic institution. Design and construction began in 1950. It was the first of four reactors operated at NC State. More information on the nuclear reactor program can be found on the departmental website.
Williams Hall housed the Agronomy Department and was named for Charles Burgess Williams, an alumnus and charter member of the Agronomy Society of America.
In 1953, NC State College hosted a dairy farm conference on campus. Chancellor Bostian declared that African American dairy farmers attending the conference could only eat in the west wing of the dining hall. Bostian's announcement was in keeping with the College's policy, which declared African Americans attending on campus meetings would have meals in the dining hall but only when a separate room was available. Leazar Hall served as the campus-dining hall until 1971.
Dr. J. N. Sasser, a plant pathology PhD graduate from NC State, joined the faculty in plant pathology in 1953 as a researcher in nematology. His research contributed to the reputation of the NC State Plant Pathology Department as an international center for graduate education and research in nematology.
Emily Catherine Brown Blount of Fayetteville, NC, became the first woman to receive a BS in civil engineering from NC State in 1953. She received a professional degree in civil engineering in 1954. Blount went on to become the first woman licensed as a professional engineer in North Carolina in 1960, and she was inducted into the North Carolina Transportation Hall of Fame in 2007.
Interest in the applications of radiation in science increased in September 1953 when NC State received a nuclear reactor. Henry Rutherford, head of the Textile Chemistry Department, recognized the value of the reactor as an energy source and led early research on how textile materials, polymers in particular, would behave when exposed to radiation.
Munir Ahmad Khan of Pakistan graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.
NC State played Wake Forest at Gore Gymnasium on Wake campus in the first ACC game for both schools.
The first Raleigh-Durham TV Fair concluded at Reynolds Coliseum. Stars appearing at the fair included Homer and Jethro of the Breakfast Club and Mrs. Hank Williams.
