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North Carolina State University will be the host for a summit on U.S./China education partnerships featuring the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the State Board of Education and China’s Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education. The signing ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 1, at 12:45 p.m. at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation on Centennial Campus. Continue Reading »

Highlighting North Carolina State University’s leadership in hazard and disaster studies, NC State’s Dr. Thomas Birkland was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a nationwide effort to recruit and mentor young researchers to study disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The effort will focus on pairing newly minted Ph.D.s in the social sciences and engineering with a team of experienced mentors from eight universities to work on disaster- and hazard-related studies. Mentors will come from political science, planning, geography, sociology, and other disciplines that contribute to understanding how disasters affect communities. Continue Reading »

North Carolina State University Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies John Gilligan has announced his intention to leave the vice chancellor position to return to the College of Engineering as a faculty member and special advisor to the dean on June 1. Chancellor James Oblinger made the announcement today.

The vice chancellor for research and graduate studies is responsible for state, federal, industry, and foundation-sponsored programs; university regulatory compliance, sponsored program support, university project development, technology transfer and commercialization, Centennial Campus and NC State’s graduate school. Continue Reading »

An advance by North Carolina State University physicists improves our understanding of how light interacts with matter, and could make possible the development of new integrated-circuit technologies that result in faster computers that use less energy. Continue Reading »

Dr. Prezell Russell Robinson, president emeritus and Charles A. Mott Endowed Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at St. Augustine’s College, will deliver a public lecture on Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. in the Witherspoon Student Center’s Washington Sankofa Room (Room 126) as part of North Carolina State University’s 26th annual University-Community Brotherhood Celebration.

The lecture is free and open to the public. The Witherspoon Student Center is located at the corner of Cates Avenue and Dan Allen Drive. Continue Reading »

Which came first, the chicken or the alligator? When it comes to the Tyrannosaurus rex family tree, it turns out that both modern-day chickens and alligators can call the T. rex “cousin.”

A group of researchers, including North Carolina State University paleontologist Dr. Mary Schweitzer, have used protein sequences from 68 million-year-old bone-derived collagen to determine the evolutionary relationships of T. rex. The results appear in the April 24 edition of Science. Continue Reading »

North Carolina State University will be the host for a summit on U.S./China education partnerships on Thursday, May 1, at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation on Centennial Campus. The summit will feature the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the State Board of Education and China’s Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education.

The goals of the memorandum are to continue developing programs and activities between North Carolina and Jiangsu Province, strengthen knowledge and understanding of each other’s countries and cultures, and create a framework for a sustainable relationship. Continue Reading »

If you’re not seeing songbirds and butterflies in your backyard, you might need to “go native.”

A new North Carolina State University Web site can help with advice on how to create landscapes filled with native plants that are a safe haven for area wildlife. Continue Reading »

A new study by researchers at North Carolina State University shows that voters prefer a presidential candidate who they perceive as being “civil religious” – meaning the candidate believes in a higher authority above the nation and its religions – regardless of the civil religious beliefs of the voters themselves. Continue Reading »

Score one for the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate, as North Carolina State University geneticists have shown that environmental factors such as lifestyle and geography play a large role in whether certain genes are turned on or off.

By studying gene expression of white blood cells in 46 Moroccan Amazighs, or Berbers – including desert nomads, mountain agrarians and coastal urban dwellers – the NC State researchers and collaborators in Morocco and the United States showed that up to one-third of genes are differentially expressed due to where and how the Moroccan Amazighs live. Continue Reading »