February 2014

Feb 6, 2014

In Memoriam: Ada Dalla Pozza

NC State remembers Ada B. Dalla Pozza, who worked for more than 70 years to improve the lives of rural families through Cooperative Extension programs. Ms. Ada, as she was affectionately known, died Jan. 31 at the age of 91. 

Feb 6, 2014

Employee Appreciation Event

Check out photos from the employee appreciation event on Jan. 23 at Reynolds Coliseum. 

Feb 6, 2014

Handball Championships on Campus

For five days in February, the best collegiate club handball players in the country will be on hand to compete for national championships in men's and women's individual and team championships at NC State's Carmichael Gym. 

Feb 6, 2014

Energy-Saving Seminar

The Energy Management Office will host a one-hour seminar about energy usage on Friday, Feb. 21. Register online to attend. The power is in your hands. 

Feb 6, 2014

Exhibit Highlights Hunt’s Namesake

Learn more about the Hunt Library's politically important namesake, James B. Hunt Jr., a two-time NC State graduate who was elected North Carolina's governor four times. 

Feb 6, 2014

Eat (and Run) to the Beat

The Krispy Kreme Challenge doesn't give you a lot of variety when it comes to doughnuts: it's glazed or nothing. So here's a list of appropriately themed songs to lift your heart as you try to hold down your stomach on the run. 

Feb 6, 2014

NC State Heads Climate Change Hub

The federal government has again selected NC State to take the reins of a collaborative research effort. Find out how the Southeast Regional Climate Hub will help ranchers, farmers and forest landowners cope with increasing risks such as fires, invasive pests, devastating floods and crippling droughts. 

Feb 5, 2014

Emerging Issues Forum to Focus on Teachers, Teacher Quality

National education experts and policy leaders will join N.C. leaders to discuss how teacher quality impacts educational outcomes at the 29th annual Emerging Issues Forum. This year’s forum, titled “Teachers and the Great Economic Debate,” is scheduled for Feb. 10-11 at the Raleigh Convention Center. More than 150 K-12 educators and administrators from across North… 

Feb 5, 2014

Ants…In…Space

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by David Hunt, a writer in NC State’s News Services office. When NC State postdoc Clint Penick collected a group of pavement ants in a small mountain community in Western North Carolina last summer, he never dreamed they’d travel farther than his biology lab in Raleigh. Today, as they orbit… 

Feb 5, 2014

Vanadium Dioxide Research Opens Door to New, Multifunctional Spintronic Smart Sensors

Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide (VO2) onto a silicon chip and using lasers to make the material magnetic. The advance paves the way for multifunctional spintronic smart sensors for use in military applications and next-generation spintronic… 

Feb 4, 2014

NC State Ants Boldly Go Into Space

NC State is helping to colonize space. A group of pavement ants collected by postdoc Clint Penick in Western North Carolina is now orbiting the earth on the International Space Station. Find out about the final frontier of science. 

Feb 4, 2014

Student-Powered Service

Grueling as it is, the 5-mile, 2,400-calorie Krispy Kreme Challenge is the end of a longer race for the students who organize it. 

Feb 3, 2014

Paul’s Cross Project

English professor John Wall and associate professor of architecture David Hill discuss the groundbreaking Virtual Paul's Cross Project, which has been installed in the Teaching and Visualization Lab at the Hunt Library. 

Feb 3, 2014

Murderers Who Killed During Robberies More Likely to Return to Crime When Paroled

Murderers who committed homicide during robberies are more likely to commit crimes again when they are paroled, compared to murderers who committed homicide under other circumstances, according to research from North Carolina State University and Harvard University.