RALEIGH – NC State University’s Plant Sciences Initiative isn’t just about feeding hungry mouths in the developing world. It’s also about jobs in rural North Carolina. “It not only helps urban North Carolina, but it greatly helps rural North Carolina,” Dean Richard Linton of NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences says in the… READ MORE
NC State Textiles: ‘Resurgent and increasingly innovative’
RALEIGH – The modern textile industry is much more than T-shirts: It’s fireproof tents. Stents for human arteries. Wound-healing fabric with “scaffolding” for new skin. “In North Carolina, we’re all familiar with the state’s strong tradition in textiles,” NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. “… I think people would be surprised… READ MORE
At NC State, solutions to real-world problems
RALEIGH (October 26, 2016) – Whether it’s creating flame-retardant fabrics or drug-detecting nail polish, protecting the power grid or introducing sweet potatoes in sub-Saharan Africa, Randy Woodson calls it a “think and do” mentality at NC State University. “This is a place that wants to do things, that wants to build things, make things work… READ MORE
Wolfpack to the rescue for Pirates
GREENVILLE (October 13, 2016) – With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew rising all around him Monday, East Carolina Athletics Director Jeff Compher needed help for his teams. “We’ve become an island here,” Compher said. Flooding of major roads in and out of Greenville forced university officials to cancel classes for the week. But ECU’s soccer team… READ MORE
Lindsay’s gift
By David Rice Higher Education Works Foundation RALEIGH (Sept. 28, 2016) – Last October 30, Kevin Howell knew something wasn’t right. He’d had several bouts of nausea. He’d noticed an annoying metallic taste in his mouth. “I felt lousy,” he says. “I just had no energy.” Howell, who’d spent 10 years as NC State University’s… READ MORE
Not a profession but a passion
RALEIGH – When Jeff Joines was an undergraduate at NC State University, IBM kept making him job offers – offers that would seem a dream to many electrical engineers. But Joines kept putting off Big Blue. Then one of his professors encouraged Joines – son of a 7th-grade English teacher – to teach. “You know… READ MORE
NCSU labs to be “transformational” for students, farms, economy
RALEIGH – With global population swelling and farm acreage shrinking, agriculture faces enormous challenges to feed and clothe the human race in coming decades. Increasingly, the answers to those challenges will be found in laboratories. And NC State University aims to revolutionize modern agriculture for both North Carolina and the world with its Plant Sciences… READ MORE
VIDEO: Bringing the Big Top to Reynolds
VIDEO: Randy Woodson on NC State and Agriculture
Agriculture remains North Carolina’s biggest industry – 80 billion dollars a year big. In the accompanying video, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson talks about the technology – much of it developed at NC State – that supports modern agriculture. He also discusses the demands created by a global population projected to grow by 2-1/2… READ MORE
SWEET POTATOES: NCSU finds new homes for an old friend
Sweet potatoes are a traditional crop in North Carolina – the state leads the nation in sweet potato production, and the sweet potato is even recognized as the state vegetable. In the accompanying video, Chancellor Randy Woodson talks about NC State University’s efforts to make nutrient-rich sweet potatoes available to people around the globe, and… READ MORE
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