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Jimmy D. Clark has been appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue to the North Carolina State University Board of Trustees. He replaces Gayle Lanier, whose term has expired. Clark is owner and president of Guy M. Turner Inc. a Greensboro-based company founded in 1924. The company specializes in heavy rigging, specialized transportation and crane services, and has [...]

What: High school students, parents, teachers and the general public are invited to learn more about the new world of textiles by attending the annual open house event at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles. The open house will showcase advances in fashion design and production, brand management and marketing, fabric design, polymer and [...]

North Carolina State University will break ground on its first student housing project on Centennial Campus. The groundbreaking ceremony takes place at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Centennial Campus Oval, located near the cluster of engineering buildings near Partners Way and Oval Drive. Media coverage is invited. Parking is available in the [...]

North Carolina State University will welcome back alumni and celebrate Homecoming with a parade on Hillsborough Street from 6 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, followed by a pep rally and comedy show at Reynolds Coliseum from 7 to 11 p.m. Media coverage of both events is invited. The parade begins at Hillsborough Street [...]

Broadcaster and author Tom Brokaw, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and Gazelles Inc. founder and CEO Verne Harnish will serve as featured speakers at North Carolina State University’s General Hugh Shelton Leadership Forum on Friday, Nov. 18, at the McKimmon Center. The one-day forum, celebrating its 10th anniversary, centers this year on “Promoting Innovation and [...]

What: The North Carolina State University community and the general public are invited to take the CPR challenge and earn first aid or CPR certification from the American Red Cross. Instructors will offer classes in adult CPR, child and infant CPR, AED and basic first aid. Who: Sponsored by NC State Campus Recreation When: Friday, [...]

North Carolina State University will break ground on the Kappa Delta sorority, the first privately funded house in its new Greek Village. The groundbreaking ceremony takes place at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at Lot 3 on Greek Village Drive. Media coverage is invited. To get to the event, turn onto Leadership Drive from [...]

The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network has named Robert Creeden, founder and managing partner of Partners Innovation Fund (PIF) of Boston, as its first executive director.  Creeden brings 30 years of experience to North Carolina’s Research Triangle.  Creeden will coordinate a major effort to draw marketable innovation out of the Triangle and its universities.  He will lead [...]

North Carolina State University will play a leading role in a new multi-university center that will focus on soft matter research, a branch of materials science with almost limitless practical applications, from organic solar cells to tissue implants to new classes of drugs. Recognizing that some of the leading scientists and engineers involved in soft [...]

Bob Mattocks of New Bern has been appointed by Governor Bev Perdue to the North Carolina State University Board of Trustees, effective Sept. 1. Mattocks served two terms on the board from 2001-09.  Now retired, he is the former chairman and CEO of Jenkins Gas and Oil of New Bern and was involved in various [...]