Posts tagged “NCSU”
Tom Brokaw, Red Hat CEO headline leadership forum at NCSU
The General Hugh Shelton leadership Forum will focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazells Inc. also will speak at the Nov. 18 event.
Need a 3D container? Just add light, thanks to NCSU researchers
Scientists at NC State develop a technology that enables pre-cut materials to be shaped into a container such as a box by simply applying light.
STEM the game: NCSU to develop videogame targeting education
TechWireGamer: The National Science Foundation is providing NCSU with a $1 million grant to develop the game that will focus on science, technology, engineering and math.
Forum to focus on 'Building a Globally Competitive South'
UNC-CH and NCSU are partnering for a discussion of a forthcoming report focusing on suggested ways of improving the South's economic future.
Cover of forthcoming report
NCSU spinoff Aseptia plans $10M food plant, 75 jobs
The company, which has raised more than $1.1 million in financing, will do business as Wright Foods. It licensed NCSU technology to keep food fresh without refrigeration.
Pets, people win in regenerative health partnership
Analysis: Animals may get a new lease on life and health, while also helping in the development of human therapies. It's the upshot of a regenerative medicine partnership announced by officials of North Carolina State University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Growing organs in WFU lab
IBM's 'Watson' supercomputer - Is it healthcare's future?
Dr. Watson? No. Just a tool. At NCSU biotech forum, an IBM exec says Watson can advance medical care and it will be controlled by the doctors.
Watson
Our economic inequality is increasing, but why?
Opinion: Economic inequality has always existed and has long been a source of controversy. How you view it depends on how you evaluate its causes and what actions, if any, you think are needed to address it.
Economy
NC's economy will continue to struggle, NCSU report says
North Carolina's economy doesn't appear headed toward a "double dip recession," but an index compiled by NCSU economist Dr. Mike Walden has declined for three consecutive months. Walden sees "modest improvement - at best" over the next several months.
Tracking NC's struggling economy
NCSU, Wake Forest team up for regenerative medicine effort
The goal will be to translate laboratory research into new medical therapies. NCSU's Center for Collaborative Medicine and Translational Research will work together with Wake Forest's Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Why such a big bang? NCSU astronomer solves supernova mystery
A team led by an astronomer at North Carolina State University used four space telescopes to figure out why the first documented supernova was super-sized. It exploded in a cavity in space.
That's one big supernova
Semiconductor material could boost biomedical implants
Researchers at N.C. State and Purdue find that gallium nitride is non-toxic and is compatible with human cells.
Obama praises NCSU professor, 11 others for tech achievement
B. Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University is a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Jayant Baliga
Kenan Fellows joins 100kin10 national education initiative
The North Carolina program is now participating in the multi-sector education movement aimed at developing 100,000 excellent math and science teachers nationwide over the next 10 years.
Kenan Fellows
NCSU lands $4M federal grant for biofuels research
University researchers will work with the Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems to explore ways to turn trees, forest harvesting residue into fuel.
