Sep 25, 2012

Findings from North Carolina State University Provide New Insights into Addiction Medicine

Findings from North Carolina State University Provide New Insights into Addiction Medicine, Mental Health Weekly Digest, Sept. 24, 2012. There’s an outreach program at NC State University that aims to teach everyone in North Carolina the true nature of engineering and how it impacts everyday life.  Laura Bottomley, elementary education, featured. 

Sep 25, 2012

Energy wonder crop Arundo raises invasive fears

Energy wonder crop Arundo raises invasive fears, News & Observer, Kansas City Star, Sept. 25, 2012. Arundo is billed as a champion energy crop that yields three times as much ethanol per acre as corn and is ideal for making clean auto fuel. David Crouse, soil science, featured. 

Sep 24, 2012

Students race rafts from refuse at NCSU’s Reusable Regatta

Students race rafts from refuse at NCSU’s Reusable Regatta, News & Observer, Sept. 21, 2012. Discarded bottles and construction debris floated on the clear waters of Raleigh Lake at N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus Friday – all in the name of environmental consciousness. 

Sep 24, 2012

Robotic machinery powers book retrieval at Hunt Library

Robotic machinery powers book retrieval at Hunt Library, Triangle Business Journal, Sept. 21, 2012. Greeting visitors at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on NC State University’s Centennial Campus when it opens in January will be Robert the Robot and three of his automated friends. 

Sep 24, 2012

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, The White House, Sept. 21, 2012. President Obama announced his intent to nominate individuals to key Administration posts. Paul J. Turinsky, nuclear engineering, featured. 

Sep 24, 2012

America’s children: providing early exposure to stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiatives.

America’s children: providing early exposure to stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiatives., Review Of Educational Research, Sept. 22, 2012. Universities around the country as well as public and private organizations are beginning to offer STEM initiative programs for K-12 students and their teachers. NC State offers a day camp for students grades 3-5 focusing on introductory engineering… 

Sep 24, 2012

Studies from North Carolina State University Add New Findings in the Area of Life Science

Studies from North Carolina State University Add New Findings in the Area of Life Science, Science Letter, Sept. 21, 2012.  NC State researchers publish new report with fresh data on life science. L.L. Zhou, plant biology, featured. 

Sep 24, 2012

Video: Scientists create robo-roaches for rescue operations

Video: Scientists create robo-roaches for rescue operations, EMS1.com, Sept. 21, 201.  NC State researchers have been working on making tiny robots that can easily be maneuvered to creep, leap and crawl in rough, out of the way, inconspicuous spaces. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering, featured. 

Sep 24, 2012

In Suffolk, a harvest of new farming knowledge

In Suffolk, a harvest of new farming knowledge, Virginian-Pilot, Sept. 21, 2012.   About 130 people, including local growers and researchers, learned about field crop research at an annual pre-harvest field day. The event centered on tips for growers to maximize their yields on field crops such as peanuts, soybeans and cotton. Attendees also gained insight… 

Sep 23, 2012

State unemployment rate rises to 9.7 percent

State unemployment rate rises to 9.7 percent, Chicago Tribune, Winston-Salem Journal, Sept. 22, 2012. A cooling off in private-sector hiring contributed to a rise in the state’s jobless rate for the second consecutive month. Michael Walden, agricultural and resource econonics, featured. 

Sep 23, 2012

People’s pharmacy is right do

People’s pharmacy is right do, WUNC-FM, Sept. 22, 2012. The bacteria on your can help increase your resistance of those bacteria. Rob Dunn, biology, featured. 

Sep 23, 2012

Andy Hall’s Southern Special

Andy Hall’s Southern Special, NY Arts Magazine, Sept. 23, 2012. CAM Raleigh’s latest Independent Weekly Gallery Emerging Artist Series exhibition, FORM SPECIAL, an exhibition of solar projects and site collages, is a new body of artworks commissioned by CAM Raleigh and created by Andy Hall. Steve Kalland,  Solar Center, featured. 

Sep 21, 2012

Group files complaint against Wake school board

Group files complaint against Wake school board, News & Observer, Sept. 20, 2012.  Democratic board member Jim Martin asking staff to create provisions so that the children of people such as his fellow NC State University professors can return to their old schools after their parents return from sabbaticals. 

Sep 21, 2012

Evaluating the Hospital Gown Dilemma

Evaluating the Hospital Gown Dilemma, MD News – Online, Sept. 21, 2012. NC State University College of Textiles is working to change the unsettling feelings patients have about hospital gowns. Traci Lamar and Anne Porterfield, textile and apparel technology and management, featured. 

Sep 21, 2012

CBS 12 News—6:00

CBS 12 News—6:00, CBS 12 News at 6 PM – WPEC-TV, Sept. 20, 2012. NC State scientists training cockroaches to search and rescue. Using a joystick, NC State electrical engineering students can steer the roach along a chosen pathway by applying a tiny electrical current to the antennas and other sensors on the bug.