Found 354 events between 1970 and 1979
NC State's campus was plunged into a complete power failure for an hour and forty minutes, starting at 11:10pm. The failure was caused by faulty equipment.
Samiha Mourad became the first woman to receive a PhD in nuclear engineering.
Swimmers warming up for the State vs. South Carolina swim meet jumped screaming from the pool as electric timers in the pool malfunctioned and shocked the swimmers.
The School of Forest Resources moved from Kilgore Hall to Biltmore Hall.
The Erdahl-Cloyd Student Union officially became the West Wing of the D.H. Hill Jr Library. The building was remodeled to include a book reserve room, an undergraduate browsing collection, and an audiovisual room.
Dr. Ellis Brevier Cowling was awarded the North Carolina Award for Science.
The Gardner Hall addition was built by Carter Williams Architects. The addition was named Thomas Hall on November 19, 2009, in honor of Joab Langston Thomas, who served as chancellor from 1975 to 1981.
A fundraiser was held on campus selling off men to the service of women for one day, and raising $175 for the Morehead School of the Blind.
Dean of Student Affairs Banks Talley was issued parking sticker A0007. When asked if he had any connection to James Bond (Agent 007), Talley replied that he was not a spy, although many students believed his office had spies everywhere.
The Department of Modern Languages was renamed the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Construction ended on the new 11-story tower addition, the North Tower, of the D. H. Hill Jr. Library.
James H. Goodnight received an appointment as an assistant statistician in the new Department of Statistics. Over the next several years, Goodnight, a statistics student named John Sall, and others would lay the groundwork for SAS. SAS became one of the largest software providers in the world.
Statistics professor Gertrude Cox was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
The University Student Center's Walnut Room Cafeteria opened for the first time on this day at 11:30am.
A group of students donated over 3,000 books to Raleigh Central Prison. The drive was organized to collect books to provide prisoners with study materials for high school equivalency tests.
Worth T. Blackwood retired after twenty years as Security Chief at NC State. During Blackwood's tenure, the security force grew from seven to twenty-two officers.
The light mural (later known as the Color Wall) in D. H. Hill Jr. Library was displayed by this date, but not yet completed. The mural was created by Joe Cox, a faculty member in the School of Design.