Feb 1, 2018 Wilmington Star News

EDITORIAL, Feb. 1: Tread lightly with changes to ferry service

Now, it’s true that tourists are the ferry’s big users. According to state statistics, nearly 200,000 vehicles make the Southport-Fort Fisher crossing each year, nearly one-third of which carry out-of-state license plates. On the other hand, a 2010 N.C. State University study found that 130,000 drivers made work-related trips on the ferry. 

Feb 1, 2018 Winston-Salem Monthly

Designers We Love: Quinn Pillsworth

Since his earliest days with Legos and Lincoln Logs, local architect Quinn Pillsworth has always been a keen student of the built environment. A graduate of N.C. State University’s School of Design, Pillsworth has been practicing architecture for the past 30 years in his native Winston-Salem. He cut his teeth with some of the city’s… 

Feb 1, 2018 The Scientist

Next-Generation Exoskeletons Help Patients Move

Other projects around the world include an effort at the University of Michigan to develop a robotic ankle that adapts to the gait of its user, currently being tested on healthy people, and collaborative work at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill meant to help the mechanics and… 

Feb 1, 2018 N&O, McClatchy wire

Atlantic Coast Pipeline stirs mix of hope for jobs, leeriness by Native Americans

Thirteen percent of people who live within a mile of the pipeline route in North Carolina are Native Americans — about 30,000 in all, said Ryan Emanuel, an associate professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University. Considering Native Americans make up only one percent of the state population, Emanuel said the… 

Jan 31, 2018 PhysOrg

Designing greenways for diverse users

“Greenways are often created to ‘transform’ urban neighborhoods, which can have both positive and negative consequences,” says Lincoln Larson, an assistant professor of parks, recreation and tourism management at North Carolina State University and co-author of an article about the research. 

Jan 31, 2018 TechnologyNetworks.com

Bone Experts Offer How-To Video For Forensic Professionals

Advances in recent years allow forensic practitioners to use bone mineral density to extract more information from human remains – but many forensic experts are unfamiliar with the techniques and technology. Now forensic researchers from North Carolina State University have published a step-by-step methodology in the video journal JOVE, providing forensic professionals with a guide… 

Jan 31, 2018 N&O

The brains behind Amazon’s Spheres is a green thumb from Raleigh and NC State

“Congratulations,” Bezos told the company’s lead horticulturist, Ron Gagliardo, according to The Seattle Times. “The plants look happy.” The plants weren’t the only ones happy over the opening of the four-story, glassy structure that is the centerpiece of Amazon’s corporate headquarters in Seattle. Gagliardo grew up in the Triangle and studied botany at N.C. State… 

Jan 31, 2018 National Geographic

First New Species of Temperate Conifer Tree Discovered in More Than a Decade

Scientists who hope to someday restore hemlocks to devastated forests are also excited about the new find. Either conventional breeding or genetic engineering could introduce adelgid-resistance genes to trees that are still mostly native, says Fred Hain, a retired entomologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who runs a nonprofit organization called the Forest… 

Jan 30, 2018 Richmond County Daily Journal

Saving the family farm through agritourism

North Carolina State University Extension conducted a study among women agritourism operators in 2016 and published the interesting findings in the publication, “North Carolina Women’s Success in Agritourism: Turning Challenges into Opportunities.” While focusing on the unique role of women in this type of business it provides an understanding of the benefits of starting an… 

Jan 30, 2018 myAJC.com

Would affluent families move to poor areas if state paid for private schools?

In considering the stubborn underperformance of urban schools, researcher Bartley R. Danielson of North Carolina State University says the problem is not ineffective leadership as often assumed. Rather, he said, “If leadership could solve this problem some urban districts would already have solved it. Further, it is not reasonable to believe that all urban districts… 

Jan 30, 2018 The Wilson Times

Economist: Sell Wilson as retirement haven

While President Donald Trump is expected to talk about the economy in his State of the Union address Tuesday, an N.C. State University economist gave the Wilson Rotary Club a state and local perspective. “In terms of broader growth in North Carolina, we’ve done well in the nine years since the recession ended. There was… 

Jan 30, 2018 N&O

New highway will threaten endangered mussels. NC promises $5M to breed them.

Scientists have learned how to reproduce freshwater mussels in captivity in labs like one at NCSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine. For 17 years, NCSU researchers have been propagating mussels on a small scale, and their lab in a metal building known as the mussel barn is one of only about a dozen places in the… 

Jan 30, 2018 WRAL Techwire

Bone experts at NCSU offer how-to video for forensic professionals

Advances in recent years allow forensic practitioners to use bone mineral density to extract more information from human remains – but many forensic experts are unfamiliar with the techniques and technology. Now forensic researchers from North Carolina State University have published a step-by-step methodology in the video journal JOVE, providing forensic professionals with a guide… 

Jan 29, 2018 Herald-Sun

Ford Motor Co. buys Durham startup with Duke, UNC, NC State ties

TransLoc, which was started at N.C. State University in 2004, offers software that helps public-owned transit systems more efficiently respond to demand. The company works with cities across the country, but it has partnered closely with several local institutions, including GoTriangle, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State. 

Jan 29, 2018 BlueRidgeNow.com

Volunteer service is valuable to local environment

Several innovative storm water projects were accomplished in partnership with N.C. State University during 2017. One involved a 5,000-gallon rainwater harvester installed at The Free Clinics, which is used to water the community gardens there. Another project — at Calvary Baptist Church on Hwy. 191 — is a large rain garden and a vegetated filter…