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Mick Kulikowski, News Services, 919/515-3470

Dec. 19, 2003

Students Receive Degrees at NC State’s Fall Commencement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

North Carolina State University Chancellor Marye Anne Fox conferred 2,853 degrees on graduating students when the university held 2003 Fall Commencement on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, delivered the commencement address. Candidates for degrees were from 96 North Carolina counties, 29 other states or United States territories and 50 foreign countries. NC State holds graduation ceremonies each year in the spring and fall.

Chancellor Fox also conferred four honorary degrees on behalf of NC State. The degree recipients were Jackson; Dr. E. Travis York, chancellor emeritus of the State University System of Florida; John P. Sall, co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute; and Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill, former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The names of North Carolina State University’s December 2003 degree candidates are not attached to this release. You can obtain them on the Web at the following address: www.ncsu.edu/news/graduation/fall_2003/fall_2003grad.htm.

If you do not have access to the Web, call NC State News Services at 919/515-3470 and we will mail you the list of graduates for your area. To access the names of local students from the Web site, log onto the address listed above and click on the counties within your coverage area. This will take to you an alphabetical listing of all graduates. You can highlight and copy this information directly into your word processing program.

If a graduate’s hometown address is not listed under the appropriate county, it is because the graduate originally established residency in the county listed, but has changed his or her mailing address for grades. Graduates’ fields of study are indicated by two- or three-letter codes. Students with more than one code earned degrees in more than one field. You can find a list of the codes, and the fields of study they designate, on the Web at www.ncsu.edu/news/graduation/fall_2003/curr.htm.

If you experience problems with this format, please call us at 919/515-3470 or email us at newstips@ncsu.edu. Following are the lead-in paragraphs to the graduation list.