Posts tagged “NCSU”
Game contests let you test your skills – and perhaps win prizes
GameStop looking for Guitar Heroes, and EA Sports offers a football challenge.
Duke lands $14.4M to launch nanotechnology research center
National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency provide funding for project to study environmental impact of nanoparticles. UCLA also will have a center.
‘Green Recovery’ plan could produce 62,000 jobs in N.C., study says
Study calls for $100B program across U.S. over two years. Proposal receives backing from several N.C. environmental groups. However, energy management company exec acknowledges programs will increase energy costs in ‘short term.’
SAS executive Ann Goodnight to receive Raleigh Chamber service award
NCSU plans ‘faculty house’ at Research Campus
When will the housing crunch end?
In the early part of this decade, in order to combat the 2001 recession and the aftermath of 9/11, the Federal Reserve pushed interest rates to a generation low and simultaneously flooded the economy with money and credit. The table was set for a huge borrowing spree. Residential housing was a likely recipient for this borrowing.
Defibrillators save lives, don't diminish quality of life
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of life, say researchers from Duke University Medical Center.
NCSU conducting Internet Privacy Survey, participants welcome
A new online survey is under way to gather information about Internet privacy policies and user opinions and values.
NCSU shares in $395,000 NSF grant for accident-avoidance project
N.C. Biotech Center awards $540,000 in grants for science curriculum projects
Scientists and researchers as well as a program at the Moreheard Planetarium and Science Center will receive some $540,000 in grants from the N.C. Biotechnology Center to develop science curriculum at colleges and universities.
Fuel grows in trees? NSCU to explore genetically enhanced trees for ethanol
UniversityTech: Three-year grant worth close to $1 million will fund research into wood as potential alternative feedstock.
Should you keep up with the Joneses or yourself?
‘Look at your own paycheck’ is one way to measure whether you are really better off economically than others.
Arbovax Receives Research Loan from N.C. Biotechnology Center
Arbovax, Inc. has received a small business research loan of $150,000 from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to support the company’s research and development program, according to a company statement released on Monday.
Economic Rivalry: Keep up with the Joneses or Yourself?
Perspective is important. Life is more complicated for a “keeping up with the Joneses” person. Gains must be compared to the gains of others. But, which approach you decide to use will determine not only how you view your own situation, but also how you view the progress of the entire economy.
