University Communications

Apr 9, 2009

Look Out, It’s a Flash Mob

A group of volunteers from the NCSU Libraries descended on the oldest house in Raleigh, and, in a decidedly nontraditional manner, "flash mobbed" the 232 books that the museum has collected but has never been able to make widely available. 

Apr 9, 2009

Skaggs Wins Communications Award

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology honored Dr. R. Wayne Skaggs with the 2009 Charles A. Black Communications Award. 

Apr 9, 2009

Alumni Magazine Wins Award

NC State, the magazine published by the Alumni Association, won a gold award from the League of American Communications Professionals. 

Apr 9, 2009

NC State Announces Dr. John Seely Brown as Spring Commencement Speaker

Dr. John Seely Brown, independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation and a visiting scholar and advisor to the provost at the University of Southern California, will deliver NC State’s commencement address on Saturday, May 9, at the RBC Center in Raleigh. The commencement ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. Prior to his position… 

Apr 9, 2009

Fulbright Teaching Assistants Approved

NC State will host Fulbright foreign language teaching assistants for Urdu, Bengali and Persian in 2009-2010. 

Apr 9, 2009

Management Faculty Named ACE Fellows

Dr. Mitzi Montoya and Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, both management faculty members, have been named 2009-10 fellows by the American Council on Education. 

Apr 9, 2009

Extension Service Awards Presented

Twenty-one faculty and professional staff members who have been named recipients of the Outstanding Extension Service Awards will be honored April 20. 

Apr 9, 2009

Li Presentation Gets Wide Audience

The National Academy of Sciences features a presentation by Dr. Bailian Li, vice provost for international affairs, on its Web portal. The presentation is titled "Principles and Practices of International Agreements – NC State." 

Apr 2, 2009

Bringing Business Back to The Big Easy

While New Orleans is on the mend, NC State Jenkins MBA students found there is still plenty of work to do, including helping small business owners restart their operations. 

Apr 2, 2009

NEH Grant Supports Book on Bergman

Professor Ora Gelley in the English department will conduct research in Rome this summer for her book project, Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini Italy: Stardom and the Politics of Neorealism. 

Apr 2, 2009

Faculty Collaborate on Health Care Research

NC State researchers are working with Center for State and Local Government Excellence on how to design, fund and administer state and local government retiree health care. 

Apr 2, 2009

Cobb Briefs Congress on Nanotech

Political science professor Michael Cobb helped brief 40 congressional staff and policymakers on nanotechnology. 

Apr 2, 2009

McCall Receives Guggenheim Grant

Professor Patty McCall in the sociology department has received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation that will fund an 18-month study examining violent crime in the European Union. 

Apr 2, 2009

Research Symposium Winners Announced

Students in design and public administration took top honors in the graduate student research symposium on March 18 at the McKimmon Center. 

Apr 2, 2009

Extension Launches Tourism Web Site

The NC State Tourism Extension unit has launched a new Web site that's designed to benefit extension agents and other professionals working throughout North Carolina.