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Nov 8, 2019

PRTM Co-Hosts Workshop: Getting Started Outdoors: Hunting 101

In late October, PRTM Assistant Professor Lincoln Larson and graduate student Torey Vayer co-hosted (with staff from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission and other conservation partners) a “Getting Started Outdoors:…

Nov 1, 2019

Alumni Spotlight: Caroline Griffin

Caroline Griffin, 2017 alumni of NC State’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management program didn’t always plan on getting a four year degree. In fact, it wasn’t until a “heart to heart”…

Oct 31, 2019

Sport Management in Top Ten Programs For 2019 Incoming Students

Oct 28, 2019

Leveraging the Social Platform of Sport to Engage New Populations with Environmental Messages

PRTM Associate Professor Jonathan Casper is part of a research team whose study has given support to industry claims about the ability to leverage the social platform of sport to…

Oct 25, 2019

World Leisure Organization Awards NC State & Health Matters & Project

Health Matters was recognized as a “Highly Recommended Project” (one of only three recognized) by the World Leisure Organization for their International Innovation Prize. Dr. Jason Bocarro (a co-PI on the…

Oct 17, 2019

Alumni Ryan Olli Named NFLPA’s & “Front Office Sports’ Rising 25”

Ryan Olli, 2015 Sport Management Alumni, was recently named to the Front Office Sports’ Rising 25  in his role as a Licensing Coordinator with the NFL Players Association. Established in…

Oct 10, 2019

Danielle Lawson and Jenna Hartley: Students as Environmental Communicators

Danielle Lawson, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management and Jenna Hartley, a Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar, who also studies in the Ph.D. PRTM…

Oct 10, 2019

Danielle Lawson and Jenna Hartley: Students as Environmental Communicators

Danielle Lawson, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management and Jenna Hartley, a Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar, who also studies in the Ph.D. PRTM…

Oct 9, 2019

Masters Student Hailey Post Wins John and Joan Markham Tourism Marketing Award

The 2019 Marketing Outlook Awards took place October 8, 2019 at the Bethesda Hyatt Regency. The MOF awards program was developed to encourage and recognize excellence in the field of…

Oct 3, 2019

Environmental Education Lab Research Featured by Children and Nature Network

Research from NC State’s Environmental Education Lab was recently featured in the Children & Nature Network’s August edition of Research Digest. The research is the work of 2017 Master of Science Alumni…