{"id":20042,"date":"2023-04-19T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/?p=20042"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:22:50","slug":"spring-social-2023-prtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/2023\/04\/19\/spring-social-2023-prtm\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Social 2023 Celebrates PRTM Awards and Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Students, alumni, faculty, friends and community partners gathered at Aloft Raleigh to celebrate outstanding achievements on a lovely spring evening in Raleigh, NC. Located on Hillsborough Street across from The Memorial Belltower, the venue was a marked departure for end-of-year events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty, students, alums and family members gathered at Aloft Raleigh on April 13, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Times change and traditions do not,” said department head, Rasul Mowatt<\/a>. “It is incumbent on us to conceive of gatherings that honor the work of others, low-cost gatherings that shift monies that would have gone to event expenses to scholarships, and gatherings that are realistic to the needs (and time) of working students, some of whom are first generation and low-income.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For our faculty and staff, such a gathering allows for a brief reprieve from areas and types of work that are constant, especially at the end of the Spring semester. And for our guests, such a gathering grants us all the ability to have true and meaningful conversations between us. So, since times change, why not create new traditions? This will be the purpose of the PRTM Spring Social.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located directly across from campus, the Aloft Raleigh provided the perfect balcony for taking selfies and family photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant teaching professor, Kimberly Willis with proud parents Diane Pearsall-Langley and Chris Langley with Amber Langley, winner of the Candace Vick Scholarship and the Jack “Swede” Frauson Scholarship. Langley is a sport management major minoring in psychology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Each year students are nominated and chosen by faculty and staff based on their class contributions, leadership abilities, extra curricular activities, and general involvement in the department. This year’s outstanding undergraduate award winners are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n