Mar 30, 2017 R&D Magazine

Making America’s Power Grid Much, Much Smarter

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt, Washington State and North Carolina State universities are charged with reinventing and protecting America’s power grid, and they’re taking their first solutions on a demonstration tour. 

Mar 30, 2017 Coastal Review Online

Can Oysters, Coastal Restoration Create Jobs?

A study from North Carolina Sea Grant, a North Carolina State University coastal research institute, found that the difference was in the millions. In 2012, Virginia’s oyster aquaculture operations generated more than $9.5 million in revenue, while North Carolina’s made a little less than $600,000. 

Mar 30, 2017 Wilmington Journal

NC Braces for Bird Flu as Neighboring States See Cases

There have been some rare cases of human infections in the past, but according to Michael Martin, associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University, there’s no evidence of that threat with the current strain. 

Mar 30, 2017 WTVD

Kids Learn About Farming, Agriculture at NC State

The children learned about farm life, not only from agriculture professionals, but from students currently enrolled at NC State. Dr. Billy Flowers is one of the professors overlooking the event. “We get to educate the public and then our students get the chance to explain the importance of what they’re studying and why they’re studying it… 

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.