Feb 24, 2014

Jack The Radio Sharpens Southern Rock Sound In Raleigh

Jack The Radio Sharpens Southern Rock Sound In Raleigh, WUNC – State of Things, Feb. 21, 2014. Jack the Radio started as two NC State students creating music in their dorm room. And nearly a decade later, they are four players bigger and they have embraced their southern rock sound. 

Feb 24, 2014

New exhibit explores history of Lebanese immigrants in NC

New exhibit explores history of Lebanese immigrants in NC, News & Observer, Feb. 21, 2014. NC State history professor discusses how the first wave of Lebanese immigrants assimilated themselves in North Carolina. Akram Khater, history, featured. 

Feb 24, 2014

UNC, community colleges smooth transfer path

UNC, community colleges smooth transfer path, News & Observer, Feb. 21, 2014. Leaders of the North Carolina Community College System and the University of North Carolina system signed new Comprehensive Articulation Agreement, establishing clearer rules and academic pathways for students who move from two-year to four-year institutions. NC State student Kadesha White, business administration, featured.   

Feb 24, 2014

Should You Major In Video Game Design?

Should You Major In Video Game Design?, Fast Company, Feb. 20, 2014. Major universities across the country – MIT, Michigan State University, NC State University – and scores of others, now offer both undergrad and graduate programs in video game design and production of their own. 

Feb 24, 2014

Pickle School focuses on food safety

Pickle School focuses on food safety, Mountain Xpress, Feb. 23, 2014. At NC State’s “Pickle School,” potential food entrepreneurs re-imagine pickles in the context of the series of legal and bureaucratic hoops necessary to bring them to market. Fletcher Arritt and Allison Smathers, food, bioprocessing and nutrition. 

Feb 21, 2014

Trials planned for pain-free, low-cost vaccine delivery

Trials planned for pain-free, low-cost vaccine delivery, SciDev.net, Feb. 20, 2014. NC State researcher developed microneedles that could also be applied as a skin patch. Roger Narayan, biomedical engineering, featured. 

Feb 21, 2014

EPA Research Grants to Help Predict Potential Health Effects of Chemical Exposures

EPA Research Grants to Help Predict Potential Health Effects of Chemical Exposures, Flow Control Network, Feb. 20, 2014. NC State receives EPA funding for developmental neurotoxicity adverse outcome pathway research. The EPA expects to use the knowledge gained from this research to develop efficient and cost-effective models to better predict if and how exposure to environmental chemicals may… 

Feb 21, 2014

Asymmetries in core-collapse supernovae from maps of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A

Asymmetries in core-collapse supernovae from maps of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A, Nature, Feb. 20, 2014. Researchers find strong evidence for the development of low-mode convective instabilities in core-collapse supernovae. Stephen Reynolds, physics, featured. 

Feb 21, 2014

Retail: Second Players’ Retreat opens on NC State golf course

Retail: Second Players’ Retreat opens on NC State golf course, News & Observer, Feb. 20, 2014. Players’ Retreat restaurant opening at NC State’s Lonnie Poole Golf Course clubhouse. PR @ The Poole is at 1509 Main Campus Drive on NC State’s Centennial Campus. 

Feb 21, 2014

O’Neal Hires Process Engineer

O’Neal Hires Process Engineer, Greenville Business Magazine, Feb. 19, 2014. O’Neal Inc., a Greenville-based integrated design and construction firm, has hired Ron Roberts as Process Engineer. Roberts received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from NC State and his MBA from Clemson University. 

Feb 21, 2014

Public Affairs Programming

Public Affairs Programming, C-SPAN, Feb. 19, 2014. The president traveled to North Carolina to announce the selection of NC State to lead the newest manufacturing innovation hub, one dedicated to semiconductors for power electronics. 

Feb 21, 2014

Opening the West to Japanese prints

Opening the West to Japanese prints, Durham Herald-Sun, Feb. 20, 2014. Japanese prints now on view at NC State’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design as part of the exhibit “Remnants of the Floating World: Japanese Art from the Permanent Collection.” 

Feb 21, 2014

Purcell Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Purcell Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, Miami.scout.com, InsideCarolina.com, Feb. 19, 2014. The National Association of Athletic Development Directors named NC State Senior Associate AD/Wolfpack Club Executive Director Bobby Purcell as a 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Bobby Purcell, athletics, featured. 

Feb 21, 2014

The System That Supplies Our Chickens Pits Farmer Against Farmer

The System That Supplies Our Chickens Pits Farmer Against Farmer, North Country Public Radio, Feb. 20, 2014. Uncertainty of payment abounds with the contract-farming system that the chicken industry uses. Tom Vukina, agricultural and resource economics, featured. 

Feb 20, 2014

Triangle on short list for Google Fiber network

Triangle on short list for Google Fiber network, Triangle Business Journal, Feb. 19, 2014. Google announced that the Triangle is one of nine metro areas around the country that might get access to Google Fiber, an ultra high-speed fiber network. Marc Hoit, information technology, featured.