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NCSU is currently led by interim chancellor Bob Barnhardt ; NCSU provost James Oblinger will become the school's 13th chief executive in January 2005. The previous head, Marye Anne Fox, departed in July 2004 to lead the University of California, San Diego.
With historical strengths in agriculture, engineering, and textiles, it is perhaps most widely recognized as one of the three anchors of North Carolina's Research Triangle, together with Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With more than 29,000 students, it is also the largest university in the University of North Carolina System and in the state of North Carolina. The NCSU Library, ranked 32nd out of 113 North American research libraries, includes 3,210,612 print volumes and 51,209 print and electronic serial subscriptions.
Notable current faculty include aquatic botanist JoAnn Burkholder , chemist Mike Whangbo , linguist Walt Wolfram , computer engineer Donald Bitzer, entomologist George Kennedy, and science-fiction author John Kessel.
Athletic teams are called the Wolfpack. North Carolina State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Atlantic Coast ConferenceThe Atlantic Coast Conference (or ACC is an American college athletic conference, affiliated with the NCAAs Division I, that was formed in June 1953. The current member institutions are located in the mid- and south-Atlantic coastal states of Maryland, Vi. Each of the past four years, NC State’s charismatic football coach, Chuck Amato , has lead the Pack to bowl games while the men’s basketball team, coached by Herb SendekHerbert Walker Sendek is a college basketball coach at North Carolina State University. He is the son of a coal miner's daughter. In 2004 he took the Wolfpack basketball team to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Sendek, Herb., advanced to the second round of the 2004 NCAA Tournament . Women’s basketball coach Kay YowKay Yow is head coach of the women's basketball team at North Carolina State University. Yow received her B. degree in English from East Carolina University in 1964, and her master’s degree in physical education from University of North Carolina at Greens, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, has more than 600 wins to her credit. A stunning new sports arena, the RBC CenterThe RBC Center (originally the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena is an indoor arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is home to the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL and the North Carolina State University Wolfpack men's basketball team of NCAA Di, beckons students, alumni, and area residents to come and root for the Wolfpack.
Architecturally, NCSU is known for its distinctive red brickA brick is a block made of kiln-fired material, usually clay or ground shale. Clay bricks are formed in a moulding (the soft mud method), or in commercial manufacture more frequently by extruding clay through a die and then wire-cutting them to the proper buildings and the "belltower." Due to oversupply, odd brick statues dot the landscape, a large section of campus is paved over with brick (University Plaza, a.k.a. "the brickyard"), and most sidewalks are also made with brick. These sidewalks are also dotted with white brick mosaics.
Other hotspots on campus include the Free Expression Tunnel, one of three pedestrian tunnels underneath the railroad tracks bisecting the main campus. This particular tunnel is the site of sanctioned graffitiSee also Graffiti (PalmOS) for the PalmOS handwriting system. Gainesville, Florida, has been set aside for use by graffiti artists and passerby. The term graffiti in its modern day use, refers to deliberate human markings on property. Graffiti can take th; anyone may tag here, and it is often the place for announcements, birthday messages, and unique art.
The Court of North Carolina, on the northeast side of campus, is surrounded by the 1911 Building; the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tompkins, Caldwell, Winston Halls and Poe Hall; Page Hall, home to College of Engineering offices; and Leazar Hall, location of the Computer Science Teaching Labs.
NC State's main campus is augmented by the modern 1,334 acre mixed-use Centennial Campus. This campus is home to university, corporate, and government research, in addition to classrooms and non-student residences. The College of Textiles is based on this campus, and long-term plans have the majority of the College of Engineering relocating to the new campus. The offices of Red Hat and the Raleigh branch of the National Weather Service are also on the Centennial Campus. Located on outlying property belonging to the university are NCSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, Carter-Finley Stadium (football), the RBC Center (men's basketball), and numerous agricultural research and extension facilities throughout the state of North Caroliina.