October, 2008 Releases and Features

3rd home story

Posted: October 23, 2008
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NC State Study Shows Limits of Using ‘War on Terror’ to Promote Government Land-Use Policies

Posted: October 22, 2008
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A new study from North Carolina State University shows that there are definite limits on the government’s use of the “war on terror” as a rhetorical tool for advancing federal land-use projects and other policy objectives. “The government can no longer rely solely on the ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘national security’ as arguments to maintain a crisis situation where local people willingly sacrifice protection of their ‘homeland’,” study author Dr. Kenneth S. Zagacki says. Continue Reading »

NC State to Celebrate New ‘Internet for Energy’ Center

Posted: October 22, 2008
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North Carolina State University will celebrate its new National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center dedicated to building an “Internet for energy” and bringing renewable energy into millions of homes and businesses. Continue Reading »

New Study Finds First Inhabitants of Caribbean Brought Their Heirlooms With Them

Posted: October 20, 2008
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A new study led by North Carolina State University’s Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick is the first to show physical evidence that the people who colonized the Caribbean from South America brought with them heirloom drug paraphernalia that had been passed down from generation to generation as the colonists traveled through the islands. Continue Reading »

NC State Mourns the Loss of Dr. Nash Nicks Winstead

Posted: October 20, 2008
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Dr. Nash Nicks Winstead, a former provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at North Carolina State University, died Saturday, Oct. 18. He was 83. Continue Reading »

Research Campus Institute Gets New Home

Posted: October 20, 2008
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A North Carolina State University initiative designed to revolutionize what we eat and boost agriculture now has a permanent home on the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. Continue Reading »

NC State Hosts Pulitzer, National Book Award Winner Philip Levine

Posted: October 16, 2008
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What:North Carolina State University will be the host for a reading by Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Philip Levine, whose works include “They Feed The Lion,” “What Work Is,” “The Mercy,” and his most recent, “Breath.” Continue Reading »

University Budget Forum

Posted: October 15, 2008
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Faculty and staff are invited to attend the fourth annual University Budget Forum on Wednesday, October 22nd from 2:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. and on Thursday, October 23rd from 10:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Both sessions will be held in the newly-renovated Erdahl-Cloyd theater at D.H. Hill Library. Continue Reading »

Landmark Study Links Sleep, Memory Problems in Elderly African-Americans

Posted: October 14, 2008
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A landmark study led by North Carolina State University researchers shows that African-American seniors who have trouble falling asleep are at higher risk of having memory problems – raising the possibility that identifying and treating sleep difficulties in the elderly may help preserve their cognitive functioning. The study is the first to examine the link between sleep and cognitive functioning in older African-Americans. Continue Reading »

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