NC State Lectures to Explore ‘New New South’

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 agriculture to manufacturing in North Carolina.

Who: Hosted by the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Research Campus.

When: North Carolina Workers and the Industrial South – Thursday, March 4, at 6 p.m.
Dr. David Zonderman, NC State professor of labor history

Rising to the Research Challenge of the Twenty-first Century : The New Workforce – Thursday, March 25, at 4 p.m.
Dr. Tom Miller, NC State vice provost for distance education and learning technology; Dr. Larry Monteith, former NC State chancellor; and Donnie Goins, COO and president of Tavve Software Co.

Communities in Transition –Thursday, April 15, at 4 p.m.
Dr. Michael Walden, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State

Where: All public lectures take place in D.H. Hill Library on the NC State campus.

Cost: The lecture series is free and open to the public.

Contact: For more information, contact David Hiscoe at 919/513-3425 or david_hiscoe@ncsu.edu.

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