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Nov 19, 2024

Registration Open for the 2025 Emerging Issues Forum

Registration is now open for the 2025 Emerging Issues Forum: Future Forward Energy. The forum, held by the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University, will take place on… 

Close-up of IEI's community initiatives program associate Cherish Thrash.

Oct 28, 2024

Cherish Thrash Joins IEI as Community Initiatives Program Associate

IEI is excited to welcome Cherish Thrash as its new community initiatives program associate. 

Close-up of IEI's digital communications specialist Mia Cooper.

Oct 22, 2024

IEI Welcomes Mia Cooper as New Digital Communications Specialist

IEI is excited to welcome Mia Cooper as its new digital communications specialist. 

Sep 13, 2024

Education and Play: How do they affect our listening?

IEI Community Initiatives Intern Eva McDonald examines how education and play as children can help improve listening skills, and ways that adults can improve these skills later in life. 

Jul 29, 2024

Jessica Solis Aguilar Joins IEI as Policy and Program Manager

IEI is excited to welcome Jessica Solis Aguilar as its new policy and program manager. 

Jul 24, 2024

IEI Releases Roadmap to Financial Resilience

IEI has released the Roadmap to Financial Resilience, a framework of strategies and tactics to boost the financial resilience of households in North Carolina. It includes four elements and related strategies and tactics to strengthen resilience levels across the state, particularly for lower-income households. 

Jul 23, 2024

IEI Welcomes Sharon Adams as Business Services Specialist

IEI is pleased to announce that Sharon Adams is returning to the organization in the position of business services specialist. 

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Jul 1, 2024

Financial Resilience Community Cohort Announced

IEI is excited to announce the five regional teams that will make up the Financial Resilience community cohort. The cohort met for the first time on June 26 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on NC State’s Centennial Campus. 

Four adults, two men and two women, sitting around a table in a library. The two women are working at a laptop and the two men are talking to each otherl

Jun 3, 2024

Growing Connections: Celebrating Western NC’s Digital Inclusion Plans and Projects

IEI is celebrating digital inclusion partners in Western North Carolina who have worked with local organizations to create digital inclusion plans and projects for their regions. 

May 7, 2024

IEI Celebrates Graduating Student Interns

IEI congratulates its graduating student interns. These three undergraduate students have excelled as IEI interns, and the organization wishes them every success on their future journeys.