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Dr. Marie Davidian, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, has been elected president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Her term of service will begin Jan. 1, 2013. The ASA is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839, with members serving in academia, government and industry in more than [...]

As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we’re carbon-based life forms. But the event that jump-started the universe, the Big Bang, didn’t actually produce any carbon, so where the heck did it – and we – come from?  An NC State researcher has helped create supercomputer simulations that demonstrate how carbon is produced [...]

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. [...]

North Carolina State University will dedicate the Randall B. Terry, Jr., Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center on May 6. The 110,000-square-foot addition will more than double the current size of NC State’s Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), making it one of the largest, most technologically advanced veterinary facilities in the country. The $72 million  [...]

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 [...]

Media looking for information on a variety of topics surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant crisis can contact the following North Carolina State University experts: Nuclear reactor function and physics Nuclear engineer Dr. Paul Turinsky can discuss how a nuclear reactor works and the attempts to prevent reactor meltdown. He can be reached at [...]

Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher and innovator, has received the 2010 Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The award honors association members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students – such as women, minorities and persons with [...]