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Meet the 2025-26 Student Ambassador Cohort

Kyla Keenan

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Mar 3, 2026

Building Futures Through 700 Rivers: A Women-Led Mission to Restore Opportunity and Independence

Each year, thousands of freshmen are assigned a required reading for convocation. Few students truly engage with it, treating it as just another obligation. Cathy Gomes, however, did more than…
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Feb 12, 2026

Saving Lives in the Critical Minutes: How SelSym Biotech is Transforming Trauma Care

As hospitals close and access to trauma care becomes increasingly limited, especially in rural communities, the window to save lives after severe injury continues to narrow. This is where SelSym…
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Jan 21, 2026

Living and Launching: Exploring Life at AEV

The Albright Entrepreneurs Village (AEV), located on Centennial Campus, is NC State’s living and learning community for student entrepreneurs. The village offers sophomore students and above a residential experience that…
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Jan 14, 2026

KANU Signal Cup Champions: Juleysi Rosario’s Path to First Place

After a grueling 13-hour drive and a setback at another pitch competition, Juleysi Rosario and her sisters refused to let disappointment define them. The KANU Signal Cup became their chance…
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Dec 10, 2025

Ishita Pai Raikar: Innovation at the Intersection of People and Technology

Originally from India, Ishita Pai Raiker spent eight years in Singapore before moving to the United States. She stepped onto NC State’s campus ready to explore, learn and grow. Graduating…
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Nov 10, 2025

Brewing Change: How 321 Coffee is Redefining Inclusion

What began as a casual exploration of entrepreneurship between NC State alums Lindsay Wrege, Business Administration ’21 and Michael Evans, B.S. Statistics ’20, M.S. Statistics ’21, has grown into one…
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Oct 17, 2025

From Tripure to Velox: Matt Liou’s Vision for Impactful Innovation

Matt Liou, a senior in the College of Engineering studying computer science, is driven by entrepreneurship as a way to build products that matter. Realizing that typical 9-to-5 roles can…
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Sep 25, 2025

Meet the 2025-26 Student Ambassador Cohort

The Entrepreneurship Student Ambassador Program (ESAP) empowers students to serve as representatives of NC State’s entrepreneurship programs, linking them with the campus community. This year, eight ambassadors, drawn from undergraduate…