Mar 22, 2017 News & Observer

NC berry farmers waiting to see how big a bite the cold snap took

As weather forecasters caution about a late-week freeze, many of North Carolina’s strawberry and blueberry farmers are still trying to assess how much of a bite last week’s cold spell took out of their crops. “We’ve had significant damage to the early ripening blueberries, but it’s too early to tell for the later-ripening varieties,” said… 

Mar 22, 2017 Textile World

Wearable Electronics

What if a shirt could sense the wearer’s vitals? What if the curtains in a home could sense lethal gas concentrations? These use-cases may seem futuristic, but they are some of the technologies under development right now in the field of textile electronics at North Carolina State University. 

Mar 22, 2017 The Engineer

Ultrasound-based tech measures fluid in the lungs

The new approach, demonstrated by a team at North Carolina State University, works by using special algorithms to carefully analyse the echoes of multiple ultrasound waves and thereby build up a picture of the fluid levels in the lungs. 

Mar 22, 2017 News & Observer

Farm to Fork Picnic to celebrate relationship between chefs, farmers, food artisans

This June, more than 70 farms and restaurants will come together for the 10th annual Farm to Fork Picnic to celebrate the partnerships that have helped make the Triangle a food destination. “It is essential that we train and support a new generation of farmers to achieve success,” says Nancy Creamer, director of CEFS. She… 

Mar 22, 2017 WUNC Radio

NC State Prof Wins International Forestry Prize

A recently retired North Carolina State University professor capped his career with a prestigious international award. Dr. Ron Sederoff has been awarded the Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his work on the molecular genetics of trees. The award is known as the Nobel prize of forestry. 

Mar 21, 2017 Wall Street Journal

New Clues on Why You Can’t Escape Cockroaches

A new study offers a hint why American cockroaches are so hard to get rid of: Females can breed for years and multiply their numbers dozens of times alone, without ever mating with a male. The paper is significant because it “suggests that infestations can be sustained without males,” said Coby Schal, a professor of… 

Mar 21, 2017 Medical Xpress

Trichomonosis: A conundrum in cats

Over the past two decades, the protozoan Tritrichomonas foetus has come to be recognised as a cause of chronic colitis in cats in many countries worldwide. The complications and controversies surrounding feline trichomonosis are explored in a state-of-the-art review article published this month in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. The authors, Dr. Jody… 

Mar 21, 2017 International Business Times

From Atlantis to fake news: People question pseudoscience if they’re taught critical thinking

Teaching critical thinking classes to university students weakened their superstitious beliefs, finds a psychological study. A total of 117 students – who attended North Carolina State University and many of whom already had a degree – were split up into groups and taught either a research methods course or a course on historical frauds. 

Mar 21, 2017 Chicago Tribune

Counting Americans: A new Mideast box on census is sensitive

“Without this kind of Census data, people just assume that Arabs or Muslims simply appeared on the scene after 9/11,” said Akram Khater, director of the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University who served on the Census’s advisory panel. “To me you don’t find safety in hiding.” 

Mar 20, 2017 Washington Post

Busted: Teams at top of brackets find themselves in trouble

They are supposed to be the best of the best. In many instances, they have looked more like the ugliest of the ugly. “It’s not a new problem,” said Joy Gaston Gayles, a professor at North Carolina State who studies the impact college sports has on its athletes. “And you often wonder, what’s going to… 

Mar 20, 2017 News & Observer

NCSU forestry professor wins international prize

An N.C. State University forestry professor has won an international prize for his work in the molecular genetics of forest trees. 

Mar 20, 2017 WRAL Local Tech Wire

NC State scientist Sederoff receives international prize for genetics work

Ron Sederoff, an NC State forestry professor and pioneering molecular geneticist, has won the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Prize, an international award for scientific achievements in fields important to forestry. 

Mar 20, 2017 Sports Illustrated

NC State hires UNC Wilmington’s Kevin Keatts as next head coach

NC State has hired UNC Wilmington Kevin Keatts as the next head coach of the Wolfpack, the university announced. 

Mar 20, 2017 ABL Advisor

Risk Management Lagging Among Corporate Leaders, Survey Finds

New research from North Carolina State University and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) finds most executives see risks increasing in both number and complexity – but those same executives say their organizations’ risk management efforts may not be staying abreast of those risks. 

Mar 20, 2017 Wilson Daily Times

Protecting the pollinators

According to Dave Tarpy, North Carolina State University professor of entomology and plant pathology and the N.C. Cooperative Extension’s state honeybee specialist, honeybees are “indispensable to our agricultural economy through their pollination services.”