New Coal Could Be Boost To N.C. Needs – State finds way to locally produce...
From the NC State Technician - March 26, 2009 According to researchers at N.C. State, wood could be the new coal. Using a process called torrefaction, woodchips are dried out in what equates to an...
View ArticleFueling the Future: Weed, Pig Waste May Offer Way To Make Ethanol
From the The Clayton News-Star – April 22, 2009 If N.C. State researchers are right, pig waste and a pond weed indigenous to North Carolina may hold keys to reducing our dependency on petroleum. Anne...
View ArticleDuckweed Quacks Volumes of Potential
From the Biomass Journal – June 2009 Since the late 1960s, scientists have studied duckweed for animal and human consumption because of its high protein content. NC State associate professor of...
View ArticleJim Woodward Named Interim Chancellor of NC State University
NC State University Web Feature – June 2009 Dr. Jim Woodward has been named interim chancellor of North Carolina State University, bringing years of administrative experience and leadership to the...
View ArticleInterviews with NC State Trustees
From the NC State Alumni Association – Red and White for Life Blog Two NC State Board of Trustees — Suzanne Gordon ’75 and Robert B. Jordan III ’54 — answered questions from NC State magazine about...
View ArticleHome Turf To Open for NCSU Golf
From the News and Observer – July 7, 2009 The Raleigh area will have a new course at N.C. State's Centennial Campus, one designed by Arnold Palmer, who is scheduled to return July 31 for its grand...
View ArticleNC State University Students Win Under Armour Collegiate National Bass...
From ESPNoutdoors.com – July 12, 2009 photo by Adam Arbottle NC State University wood products senior Will White and textiles engineering senior Chris Wood win the 2009 National Collegiate Bass Fishing...
View ArticleNC State University Golf Course to host Tarheel Junior Tour Event
From WorldGolf.com July 22, 2009 The Tarheel Junior Golf Tour has announced that the first nationally ranked junior golf event to be held at the newly opened Arnold Palmer designed Lonnie Poole Golf...
View ArticleAgri-Tech Selects Torrefaction Equipment Manufacturer
From Biomass Magazine – July 22, 2009 Torrefaction technology development company Agri-Tech Producers LLC has selected South Carolina-based Kusters Zima Corp. as its engineering/manufacturing partner...
View ArticleFAA: Bird Strike Was Cause of RDU Flight's Emergency Landing
WRAL.com – August 10, 2009 The Federal Aviation Administration says a bird strike started an engine fire that forced a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 to make an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham...
View ArticleCollege of Natural Resources Researchers Featured in "Fresh Water" issue of...
From FRESH WATER: Research to protect the Earth's Life Support System – RESULTS magazine, Summer 2009 Keeping it Clean Downstream – Dr. Perver Baran and Dr. Hugh Devine – Downpours often pollute North...
View ArticleWhat a Deal! NC State Ranks As Higher Ed Best Value
From the NC State Bulletin – August 2009 By Dave Pond Families still struggling through the economic recession received some good news this month. Both the Princeton Review and U.S. News & World...
View ArticleBeratan Lends Her Sustainablity Science Expertise to Fort Bragg Community
From BRAC-RTF Website – August 28, 2009 Dr. Kathi Beratan, research assistant professor in the N.C. State University Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, has joined the BRAC RTF as a...
View ArticleAltered Chestnut Trees Succeed
From the News & Observer – September 24, 2009by Martha Quillin, staff writerImage courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service In stands of tiny trees in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia blooms the...
View ArticleCollege's Fitness Program Leads by Example
From the NC State University Bulletin – by David Hunt Changes in the State Health Plan that threaten to penalize some overweight employees starting in 2011 raise the question: What's available at work...
View ArticlePhD Candidate Nyeema Harris Awarded Philadelphia Zoo's Emerging Conservation...
Nyeema Harris, Ph.D. candidate in the Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Program at NC State, will be presented with the Emerging Conservation Leader Award at the Philadelphia Zoo Global Conservation Gala...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Tar Heel Timber for Haitian Housing
News & Observer – Point of Viewby Robert D. BrownFebruary 6, 2010 "Haiti is in dire need of housing. Due to a lack of forest materials, the Haitians constructed houses with bricks and concrete...
View ArticleHowl for Haiti Reaches $25,000 and Counting…
From The Technician February 11, 2010 In the past month, the 'Howl for Haiti' campaign at NC State University has raised $25,000 in their effort to raise funds for Haiti, with the help of numerous...
View ArticleSummer Camps Deliver Large Payoffs for Campers, Do they Deliver for the Local...
Dr. Michelle Gacio Harrolle and Dr. Samantha Rozier-Rich of the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management at NC State University are addressing that question as part of an economic...
View ArticleNCSU Boasts a Great Lumberjack
newsobserver.com blog / Campus Notes -3/29/2010 An N.C. State student is one of the nation's top collegiate lumberjacks. Logan Scarborough recently won the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Southern Collegiate...
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