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North Carolina State University will be part of a new national project aimed at promoting collaboration between international and diversity/multicultural education initiatives on college and university campuses. The American Council on Education (ACE) project, “At Home in the World: Educating for Global Connections and Local Commitments,” will explore connections between international and diversity efforts that [...]

To look at the tobacco budworm moth and its close cousin, you wouldn’t be able to tell the fuzzy-looking, fingertip-size moths apart. But put males of each species as far as six car-lengths away from females,  and even in the darkness of midnight they easily find their way to mates from their own species while [...]

What: North Carolina State University will host a lecture series this spring to examine the economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped – and are shaping – the South. Titled the “New New South,” the series will place the region’s current transformation into an information economy into the context of the earlier shift from [...]

Harvard professor and civil rights leader Lani Guinier will be the keynote speaker at North Carolina State University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration on Wednesday, Jan. 13, from noon until 1 p.m. in Stewart Theatre. Media coverage of the event is invited. Stewart Theatre is located in the Talley Student Center on Cates Avenue, [...]

NC State Preview Events at NC State University For use by the media as calendar-of-events items or for information What:  North Carolina State University will be host to Army Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who will speak on the evolution of the conflict in Iraq from 2003-2009. McMaster is director of concept development and experimentation at [...]

Randall C. “Randy” Ramsey of Beaufort, N.C., founder, president and CEO of Jarrett Bay Yacht Sales, has been appointed to the North Carolina State University Board of Trustees by Gov. Bev Perdue. Perdue also reappointed E. Norris Tolson to the board. An active member of numerous local and regional boards, Ramsey has served on the [...]

New NC State chemical compounds break up biofilms, make antibiotics work again It started out as a research project focused on getting rid of harmful bacterial accumulations called biofilms. Now it has the potential to make conventional antibiotics work against stubborn, drug-resistant bacteria. This unexpected development might have come as a surprise to the North [...]