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Mar 20, 2014

Let’s Get Fit With Fittle

If you need a boost to embrace healthy habits, grab your smartphone and download a new app that makes it easy and fun to stay motivated. 

Feb 12, 2014

Civil Rights Effort Inspires Dance

Don't miss the opportunity to see a new, exciting dance performance in progress and talk with the choreographers. Students, faculty and staff are invited to an open rehearsal of "Operation Breadbasket." 

Feb 6, 2014

Eat (and Run) to the Beat

The Krispy Kreme Challenge doesn't give you a lot of variety when it comes to doughnuts: it's glazed or nothing. So here's a list of appropriately themed songs to lift your heart as you try to hold down your stomach on the run. 

Feb 6, 2014

NC State Heads Climate Change Hub

The federal government has again selected NC State to take the reins of a collaborative research effort. Find out how the Southeast Regional Climate Hub will help ranchers, farmers and forest landowners cope with increasing risks such as fires, invasive pests, devastating floods and crippling droughts. 

Feb 5, 2014

Ants…In…Space

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by David Hunt, a writer in NC State’s News Services office. When NC State postdoc Clint Penick collected a group of pavement ants in a small mountain community in Western North Carolina last summer, he never dreamed they’d travel farther than his biology lab in Raleigh. Today, as they orbit… 

Feb 4, 2014

NC State Ants Boldly Go Into Space

NC State is helping to colonize space. A group of pavement ants collected by postdoc Clint Penick in Western North Carolina is now orbiting the earth on the International Space Station. Find out about the final frontier of science. 

Jan 16, 2014

Silver Nanowire Sensors Hold Promise for Prosthetics, Robotics

North Carolina State University researchers have used silver nanowires to develop wearable, multifunctional sensors that could be used in biomedical, military or athletic applications, including new prosthetics, robotic systems and flexible touch panels. The sensors can measure strain, pressure, human touch and bioelectronic signals such as electrocardiograms. 

Jan 7, 2014

New, Simple Technique May Drive Down Biofuel Production Costs

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production. 

Nov 25, 2013

Successful Year for Leadership Program

Randy and Susan Woodson celebrate the first year of the Chancellor's First-Year Student Leadership Program with 20 exceptional students. 

Nov 6, 2013

Watch or Attend Shelton Forum

Ann Dunwoody, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, gives the keynote address at the 12th annual Shelton Leadership Forum on Friday. You can register for the event or watch it remotely. 

Oct 15, 2013

The Housing Bomb: 5 Questions With Nils Peterson

Are we building our way to ruin? That’s the premise of a provocatively titled new book released this month: The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society. Lead author Dr. Nils Peterson, associate professor of fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology at NC State, focuses his research on the… 

Sep 27, 2013

Study Shows Innovative Program Helps Limit Domestic Violence

October is domestic violence awareness month, and the statistics are horrifying. Nearly three in 10 women have been stalked or assaulted by their partner, and states reported investigating abuse cases involving 5.9 million children in 2010. It hurts children to be exposed to domestic violence, and child maltreatment and partner abuse too often happen in… 

Sep 25, 2013

The 21st Century Professor: Evaluating the Future of Instruction in Higher Education

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jeff Braden, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of psychology at NC State. Braden is leading a study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to determine whether computer-based instruction is as effective as conventional classroom instruction in higher education. What makes… 

Sep 18, 2013

Which Charity Will You Choose?

Go green, support social justice, feed the hungry or save the whales. Whichever cause catches your eye, it's time to join with other faculty and staff to change the world though the 'Wolfpack Gives Back' campaign. 

Jul 18, 2013

New Technique for Assessing Calorie Absorption Sheds Light on Genetic Driver of Obesity

Researchers from Harvard, NC State and five other universities have found a specific genetic on-off switch associated with obesity in both mice and humans, raising the long-term possibility of developing new treatments for obesity. As part of the study, NC State researchers had to develop a new technique for assessing calorie absorption in small laboratory animals, which…