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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.

Mar 30, 2017 NOVA Next

How Mosquito Nets Can Shape the Evolution of Behavior

“Those things are all the complexities that need to be unraveled,” says Fred Gould, an evolutionary biologist at North Carolina State University and an author of the Evolution review. “And in general, studying behavior is hard. With behavior, you have to be pretty much of a sleuth to really get in there and figure out… 

Mar 30, 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education

How a Big Bet on Higher Education Split a State in Two

For many of his 39 years teaching at North Carolina State, Michael L. Walden has served as an academic adviser. When students from rural communities first arrive on campus, they often tell Mr. Walden, an expert on the state economy, that they plan to return home after earning a degree. But by their junior year,… 

Mar 29, 2017 AOL

The popular way you’ve have been storing rice could make you very, very sick

According to Dr. Ben Chapman, a Food Safety Specialist from North Carolina State University, cooking rice doesn’t always kill all the pathogens. “The issue with rice is that one pathogen, Bacillus Cereus, is quite prevalent in dried rice (some sources say ubiquitous), likely as spores. The spores may survive cooking,” he said according to Skillet. 

Mar 29, 2017 N&O

Harrison: Son has said little since his mother’s body found buried near Wendell

Forensic anthropologists from N.C. State University helped investigators locate Fox’s body, which was buried three feet deep in the woods near Fox’s home at 6524 Turnipseed Road. 

Mar 29, 2017 Winston-Salem Journal

Path unclear for negotiating HB2 compromise

“I perceive the leadership in the General Assembly is averse to outside pressure,” said Michael Walden, an economics professor at N.C. State University. 

Mar 29, 2017 The Tribune (India)

Bestselling Cookbooks Give Inaccurate Food Safety Advice

“Cookbooks aren’t widely viewed as a primary source of food-safety information, but cookbook sales are strong and they’re intended to be instructional,” said Ben Chapman, from the North Carolina State University in the US. 

Mar 29, 2017 New York Times

N.C.A.A. Tradition (Cutting Down Nets) Comes With a Snip of Danger

The tradition has roots in Indiana high school basketball, according to Tim Peeler, the self-described “unofficial historian” of North Carolina State sports who now works for the university. When the Wolfpack won the Southern Conference tournament in 1947, Peeler said, their coach, Everett Case, a Hoosier, exported the tradition to Tobacco Road, where it spread… 

Mar 28, 2017 Science Daily

Cookbooks give readers (mostly) bad advice on food safety

“Cookbooks aren’t widely viewed as a primary source of food-safety information, but cookbook sales are strong and they’re intended to be instructional,” says Ben Chapman, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor of agricultural and human sciences at North Carolina State University. 

Mar 28, 2017 Optics and Photonics News

Bending Plastics with IR Light

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have developed ink-imprinted 2-D thermoplastic sheets that, when exposed to infrared (IR) light, can be predictably curved into tubes, bowls and other 3-D structures. 

Mar 28, 2017 WRAL TechWire

Economist: ‘Strong jump’ in February boosts NC economy

After a “strong jump” last month in an economic index for North Carolina, NCSU economist Dr. Michael Walden says “2017 may shape up to be the best post-recessionary growth year” for the state. 

Mar 28, 2017 WRAL TechWire

STEM news: Words matter when math teachers describe student learning

Think back to math class in elementary school. Do you remember being assigned to a “high,” “middle” or “low” group? If so, you’ll relate to a new study from North Carolina State University on the importance of how teachers talk about students’ mathematical work. 

Mar 28, 2017 Huffington Post

Cookbooks ‘Increase Risk Of Food-Borne Illness’ Through Poor Safety Instructions, Warn Scientists

Researchers from North Carolina State University evaluated almost 1,500 recipes from 29 cookbooks that appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list for food and diet books. 

Mar 27, 2017 Triad Business Journal

The N.C. organizations that received the most NIH funding in 2016

A number of universities – including Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University – hover near the top of the list of North Carolina recipients, which also includes the likes of contract research organizations Rho and PPD, as well as Durham-based pharmaceutical company BioCryst. 

Mar 27, 2017 PhysOrg

Trail cams used to monitor predators of deer fawns

“I’m interested in looking at just how these fawns are using the landscape and surviving in this space where all these predators are out to get them,” said Murphy, who earned her undergraduate degree in fisheries and wildlife science from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in fish and wildlife conservation from Virginia… 

Mar 27, 2017 The Outer Banks Voice

NWS is looking for volunteers to track rain, snow and hail

“Monitoring weather and climate conditions in North Carolina is no easy feat,” Heather Dinon Aldridge, assistant state climatologist and interim associate director of the State Climate Office, based at North Carolina State University, said in a press release. “CoCoRaHS volunteers help by painting a better picture of precipitation patterns across North Carolina, filling in data…