July 2013

Jul 5, 2013

Arden Names Two Vice Provosts

Provost Warwick Arden fills key positions in his office as the university focuses on implementing its strategic plan. 

Jul 5, 2013

Try Your Hand at Farmwork

Join your NC State colleagues on Wednesday as they tend crops being grown for university dining halls. It's a great way to use your community service hours. 

Jul 3, 2013

Strong Season for Athletics

The Wolfpack finished 34th overall in the 2012-13 NACDA Directors Cup, inching closer to a goal set by the chancellor and athletics director in 2010. 

Jul 3, 2013

Forum on Brand Refresh

Learn more about the ongoing effort to update NC State’s brand identity at an open forum Wednesday in the Hunt Library auditorium. 

Jul 3, 2013

Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight

Call it a bird’s eye view of migration. Scientists are taking a fresh look at animal movement with a big data approach that combines GPS tracking data with satellite weather and terrain information. The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) system, featured in the journal Movement Ecology, can handle millions of data points and serve… 

Jul 3, 2013

Mr. Wuf Joins Mascots in NYC

NC State's hardworking mascot, Mr. Wuf, joined mascots from across the Atlantic Coast Conference in New York City this week to welcome Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame into the league. 

Jul 2, 2013

Companies Look at Wrong Things When Using Facebook to Screen Job Applicants

Employers are increasingly using Facebook to screen job applicants and weed out candidates they think have undesirable traits. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that those companies may have a fundamental misunderstanding of online behavior and, as a result, may be eliminating desirable job candidates. 

Jul 1, 2013

Is This Mouse a Pirate?

Did a field researcher somehow capture a pirate mouse? No! This raffish rodent is part of a study that is evaluating how harvesting plants for use in biofuels is affecting ecosystems. The photographer, NC State Ph.D. student Sarah Fritts, took the photo – and explains what we’re looking at. “Renewable energy likely will become the dominant… 

Jul 1, 2013

New College of Sciences Launches Today at NC State

North Carolina State University has officially launched its new College of Sciences. The new college, which combines the programs of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences with several of the biological sciences programs from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will offer interdisciplinary educational and research opportunities for students and faculty. The College… 

Jul 1, 2013

Opening Day for New College

Researchers have to be as flexible as the problems they aim to solve. At NC State, the launch of a new college allows the researchers of today and tomorrow to do just that. 

Jul 1, 2013

Food Is Focus of Read Smart

In the next Read Smart event, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss discusses the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. 

Jul 1, 2013

Teaching a Computer to Play ‘Concentration’ Advances Security, Understanding of the Human Mind

Computer science researchers have programmed a computer to play the game Concentration (also known as Memory). The work could help improve computer security – and improve our understanding of how the human mind works.