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Jul 11, 2014

President Obama visits campus

President Barack Obama visited campus in January to announce that NC State will lead a $140 million advanced manufacturing institute. The institute will develop ways to mass produce wide bandgap semiconductors…

Jul 11, 2014

Putting bacteria to work

Ask most undergraduates if they’re interested in factory work, and you’ll get puzzled looks. But what if the “factory” was E. coli bacteria and the “work” involved creating libraries of…
Siats meekerorum dinosaur

Jul 11, 2014

Dinosaur Discovery

A newly discovered species of carnivorous dinosaur — one of the three largest ever discovered in North America — prevented tyrannosaurs from taking their place atop the food chain nearly…

Jul 11, 2014

Learning how we learn

Dr. Karen McNeal uses high-tech tools to explore how humans understand what they’re taught about earth systems. Her recent research in geocognition and geoscience education has broken new ground determining…

Jul 11, 2014

When is a ball a ball?

Ever wonder why a pitch is called a “strike” against one hitter, and a “ball” against the next? Many baseball fans have long suspected home-plate umpires of bending the rules…

Jul 11, 2014

Your data, your treatment

The advent of the genomic era has made the prospect of “personalizing” treatment for individual patients more tantalizing than ever. Media accounts abound of discoveries that tie a patient’s genetic…

Jun 5, 2014

Rissman named Head of Biological Sciences at NC State

Dr. Emilie Rissman has been named the first permanent head of NC State’s new Department of Biological Sciences. Her appointment is effective Nov. 1. Rissman comes to NC State from…

May 26, 2014

A Decade of Financial Mathematics at NC State

Event photo gallery The Master of Financial Mathematics program at NC State marked a major milestone this spring — its 10-year anniversary. To celebrate, about 85 administrators, alumni, current students…

May 1, 2014

Sciences students excel to earn Goldwater Scholarship

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is one of the most prestigious undergraduate science awards in the United States. Recipients typically have extensive undergraduate research experience and outstanding academic records. In…

Apr 22, 2014

Thousands to compete at April 26 Science Olympiad at NC State

Media Contact Kim Gervase 919-418-2885 [email protected] Approximately 2,000 middle-and high-school students will launch homemade bottle rockets, operate self-made vehicles, and send elastic gliders soaring skyward at the NC Science Olympiad…