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December 2012

Christmas Tree Farm

Dec 13, 2012

5 Questions With Jeffrey Owen

Area Forestry Extension Specialist Jeffrey Owen says Christmas tree growers are reporting excellent sales this year, better than previous years. 

Dec 13, 2012

Keto Honored With Fiscal Integrity Award

Stephen Keto received the 2012 North Carolina State Controller’s Fiscal Integrity Award. 

Dec 12, 2012

Hope From a Headband

Senior communication major Jessica Ekstrom makes a headband a powerful thing, helping pediatric cancer patients through her company, Headbands for Hope. 

Dec 12, 2012

NC State to Hold Commencement Ceremony Dec. 15

North Carolina State University will confer more than 3,500 degrees on graduating students during its fall commencement exercise, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, in the PNC Arena in Raleigh. Media coverage is invited. During the ceremony, Chancellor Randy Woodson will confer 3,550 degrees – 66 associate’s, 2,174 bachelor’s, 1,013 master’s and 297 doctoral… 

Dec 11, 2012

Charity Bike Ride

Paul Rudershausen is riding his bike across country this winter break to raise money for the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter. 

Dec 11, 2012

Alumnus Receives 2012 Design Guild Award

College of Design alumnus Phil Freelon became the recipient of the 2012 Design Guild Award this month. 

Dec 11, 2012

Textile Students Honored

Three textile engineering students were awarded third place in the 2012 Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development for a class project looking at the recyclability of oil- contaminated pizza boxes. 

Dec 11, 2012

Krim to Lead PAMS Research Initiatives

Jacqueline Krim has been named associate dean for research in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. 

Dec 11, 2012

5 Questions With Canopy Meg

Meg Lowman is the director of the Nature Research Center at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and a research professor at NC State. She has conquered the canopy of the rainforest, and opened up an entirely new world to scientific discovery. She’s just published a textbook that will help future generations of canopy scientists get… 

Dec 11, 2012

Holiday Setback Notice

The Winter Holiday Energy Setback has saved NC State nearly $2 million since 2005. Learn how you can help. 

Dec 11, 2012

Lunch and Learn on Suicide Prevention

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is collaborating with the NC State University Suicide Prevention Program to increase campus awareness about the risk of suicide among youth and college students. 

Dec 11, 2012

Lose Big, Win Big

Feeling sluggish? Want to lose weight or become more fit? University Recreation can help with a new fitness challenge that offers Bulletin readers the chance to win one of two training packages. 

Dec 10, 2012

Researchers Reveal Structure of Carbon’s ‘Hoyle State’

A North Carolina State University researcher has taken a “snapshot” of the way particles combine to form carbon-12, the element that makes all life on Earth possible.  And the picture looks like a bent arm. Carbon-12 can only exist when three alpha particles, or helium-4 nuclei, combine in a very specific way. This combination is… 

Dec 10, 2012

Innovation to Save Lives: A Student’s Story, Part II

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by NC State grad student Tate Rogers. Rogers came up with an idea to address the life-threatening challenge of human waste disposal in the developing world, and was part of a team that received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue the idea further. Rogers presented… 

Dec 6, 2012

Meet the Future

Meet Andrew, Hillary and KeJuan. Some day, they'll be doctors and teachers; today, they're NC State students, supported by scholarships and awards that exist because of the generosity of annual donors.