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NC State news is shared far and wide. Below are just some of our recent appearances in local, regional, national and international media publications.

Jul 9, 2013

Employers may misjudge job applicants based on Facebook pages

Employers may misjudge job applicants based on Facebook pages, Hawaii News Now, July 8, 2013. NC State researchers studied the validity of using Facebook for job-screening purposes based on five personality traits. Lori Foster Thompson, psychology, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

Employers may misjudge job applicants based on Facebook pages

Employers may misjudge job applicants based on Facebook pages, WTVT-TV (Tampa), July 8, 2013. NC State researchers studied the validity of using Facebook for job-screening purposes based on five personality traits. Lori Foster Thompson, psychology, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

How to Prepare Teachers for Digital Education

How to Prepare Teachers for Digital Education, Center for Digital Education, July 8, 2013. Teacher prep programs prepare students for life in a technology-enriched environment. John K. Lee, education, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

Cree lights to save $3.5M a year for UNC System

Cree lights to save $3.5M a year for UNC System, Triangle Business Journal, July 8, 2013. The UNC system is preparing a vast overhaul of lighting at 13 of its campuses, a $25 million investment that administrators say will bring at least $3.5 million in annual savings. Mick Kulikowski, University Relations, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

Employers May Misjudge Job Applicants Based on Facebook Pages

Employers May Misjudge Job Applicants Based on Facebook Pages, MedicineNet.com, July 9, 2013. NC State researchers studied the validity of using Facebook for job-screening purposes based on five personality traits. Lori Foster Thompson, psychology, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

NCSU Researchers Develop New Flexible Metallic Bubble Wrap

NCSU Researchers Develop New Flexible Metallic Bubble Wrap, AZoM, July 9, 2013. NC State researchers have developed a new metallic bubble wrap that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than sheet metal and more heat- and chemical-resistant than plastic. Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

Metallic bubble wrap offers ‘better protection for products’

Metallic bubble wrap offers ‘better protection for products’, The Engineer, July 9, 2013. NC State researchers have developed a new metallic bubble wrap that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than sheet metal and more heat- and chemical-resistant than plastic. Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

New Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers Big Benefits Over Other Protective Materials

New Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers Big Benefits Over Other Protective Materials, World Industrial Reporter, July 9, 2013. NC State researchers have developed a new metallic bubble wrap that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than sheet metal and more heat- and chemical-resistant than plastic. Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

CCA Announces Annual Scholarship Selection

CCA Announces Annual Scholarship Selection, Outdoor Wire, July 9, 2013. NC State student Samantha Binion in the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program wins Coastal Conservation scholarship. Jeff Buckel and Samantha Binion, biology, featured. 

Jul 9, 2013

: New Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers Big Benefits Over Other Protective Materials

: New Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers Big Benefits Over Other Protective Materials, M2 PressWIRE, July 8, 2013. NC State researchers have developed a new metallic bubble wrap that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than sheet metal and more heat- and chemical-resistant than plastic. Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering, featured. 

Jul 8, 2013

New College of Sciences at NC State combines science, math to benefit research

New College of Sciences at NC State combines science, math to benefit research, N&O, July 5, 2013. N.C. State University’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences became the College of Sciences on Monday, upending the traditional academic structure to create a space where big data and life sciences can work together. Provost Warwick Arden, Dean Dan… 

Jul 8, 2013

Let authors with NC ties fill your summer with meaning

Let authors with NC ties fill your summer with meaning, N&O, July 6, 2013. North Carolina’s reputation as a hotbed for fiction stretches all the way back to the 1800s, when William Sydney Porter – later known as O. Henry, author of such classic short stories as “The Gift of the Magi” – grew up… 

Jul 8, 2013

White Hall Ruritans Honor Scholastic Achievement

White Hall Ruritans Honor Scholastic Achievement, Crozet Gazette – Online, The White Hall Ruritans recognized three Crozet Elementary School fifth graders for outstanding achievement at an awards ceremony at the school June 11. Jake Bryant (Ms. Deal’s class), Anna Kate Canady Schultz (Mrs. Garbaccio’s) and Lindie Ross (Ms. 

Jul 8, 2013

New Study Indicates Employers Exclude Viable Candidates by Scanning Facebook Profiles

New Study Indicates Employers Exclude Viable Candidates by Scanning Facebook Profiles, Agency Spy, July 8, 2013. This just in…if employers think scanning Facebook profiles to screen job applicants is a good idea, they may want to reconsider. Lori Foster Thompson, psychology, featured. 

Jul 8, 2013

a little bit more enough

a little bit more enough, WTIC-AM (News Talk 1080), a little bit more enough left of the good unit price or to creep back up to ten symbols out of exactly what the detail was the market like but something do with how accretive this could be a think by by twenty fifteen something like…