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North Carolina State University will host more than 2,500 of the state’s best and brightest middle- and high-school students at the North Carolina Science Olympiad (NCSO) on April 30. The competitive events will include launching bottle rockets, flying remote-control helicopters, breaking balsa towers, throwing catapults, destroying sumo bots and investigating crime scenes. Media are invited [...]

The North Carolina State University Board of Trustees will award the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence to four faculty members in recognition of their outstanding careers at NC State. The Holladay Medal is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the trustees and the university. This year’s honorees are Dr. William R. [...]

Researchers at North Carolina State University believe that hurricane activity will be above normal in the Atlantic basin in 2011. According to Dr. Lian Xie, professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, and collaborators Dr. Montserrat Fuentes, professor of statistics, and graduate student Morgan Lennon, 2011 should see 13 to 16 named storms forming in [...]

Researchers at North Carolina State University are narrowing the search for genes involved in non-Hodgkin lymphoma – by turning dogs into humans. Humans and dogs don’t just share companionship and living space, they also share a similar genetic makeup. Additionally, they share the same types of cancer, including lymphoma. Dr. Matthew Breen, professor of genomics [...]

What: North Carolina State University will host a lecture, titled “The Chemistry/Biology Interface: Walking the Edge,” by Dr. Barbara Imperiali, a professor of chemistry and  biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Imperiali’s talk will focus on her groundbreaking research in the development of chemical tools [...]

Note to editors: Media are invited to speak with Dr. Harrysson, Dr. Marcellin-Little, Sandy Vandall, Zeus’ owner, and meet Zeus at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30 at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The surgery described below is expected to begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 31. Photographers may shoot video and stills of the [...]

Dr. David Threadgill, professor and department head of genetics, is relatively new to NC State, but not new to producing groundbreaking research findings. In the past few months, he and colleagues have published papers suggesting new ways of thinking about old problems, including a new target for colon-cancer drugs and a cheaper and possibly more [...]