Howling Success: Brayden Hearn

Dec. 9, 2025

Campus Health's Pack Peers peer educator group promotes health-enhancing behaviors to NC State students.

Brayden Hearn proudly displays his Howling Success banner in one of University Theatre's dressing rooms.

Howling Success: Brayden Hearn

Our final Howling Success of 2025 is a student who has found a home in the University Theatre community, acting in and directing several productions. He is going on to study Shakespeare and Performance in graduate school.

Three employees smile and hold up cups of hot drinks against a brick background in Park Shops.

DASA Winter Social

Join your DASA colleagues for fun and festivities at our Annual Winter Social, set for Thursday, Dec. 11 from 9:30-11 a.m. on the first level of Park Shops. Enjoy live tunes from the Wolfpack Pickers, along with cookies, hot chocolate and coffee.

Stevie Kimmet stocks the produce case at Feed the Pack Food Pantry.

Grateful for the Pack

Current and former NC State undergraduate and graduate students, including Pack Essentials Program Director Stevie Kimmet, shared their gratitude for being part of the Wolfpack community.

Grace Lowder smiles for the camera as she and her fellow University Honors Program students hike Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in late May.

UHP Students Take on Alaska

For two weeks during the early summer months, students from the University Honors Program traveled throughout Alaska, engaging with the great outdoors and immersing themselves in unique cultural and natural landscapes.

News You Can Use

Arts NC State and the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs (OUIP), have announced minigrants to support Art and Science projects at NC State. Learn more and submit a proposal by Dec. 19.
Register for the De-Stress Fest Immersive Soundscape Experience for employees, with two sessions available on Dec. 10.
Give the gift of experience this season! Tickets are available for NC State LIVE’s production of Ranky Tanky on Jan. 23.
Kirsten Paige, an associate teaching professor in the Department of Performing Arts and Technology, is currently on scholarly reassignment at Harvard/Dumbarton Oaks working on her second book, which has been recruited for inclusion in the University of California Press’ newly launched series, California Studies in Global Musicology.
Julio Teran, an academic advisor and lecturer in the Engineering first-year program who worked with the Office of Undergraduate Research on a CURE grant last year, has now published a summary of his project with multiple undergraduate co-authors.
Dec. 30 is a required leave day and permanent employees must use applicable leave (annual leave, bonus leave, special bonus leave, comp time or personal observance day leave). Remember that your personal observance leave is “use it or lose it,” so it must be used before the end of each year.
This is the last Internal Connections of 2025. Enjoy your break and happy holidays!

Employee Awards for Excellence

Awards for Excellence is the most prestigious honor bestowed upon non-faculty employees. This award recognizes the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of individual employees, above and beyond an employee’s normal job responsibilities. Nominations for employee awards for excellence are open through Jan. 21, 2026.

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Reminders

Registration for the Crafts Center’s spring classes are now open for faculty, staff and the general public.
DASA Technology has launched a new how-to website that provides a searchable knowledge base of technical support questions and answers.
Try the Smashing Mickey, Players Retreat’s new burger, through Dec. 31, with $2 from every burger sold going to University Theatre.

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