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Walking Together

"I want people to know how incredible this department is..."

"I want people to know how incredible this department is..."

By carstories

“I want people to know how incredible this department is…”

Tim Calhoun should be dead. His son, David ’18, struggled with college.

They took different paths, at different schools — Tim at NC State and David at Carolina — to an academic convergence in the UNC/N.C. State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.

They both will walk across the commencement stage in May 2018. And that’s only the beginning for both.

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