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36116
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Alluding to a phrase still heard in the Progressive Era, NC Agricultural and Mechanical College students visited East Carolina Teachers College students. ECTC’s student body, mostly female, encouraged administration to facilitate co-ed style events that reflected progressive thinking. From that came the Sadie Hawkins Dance style visits of ECTC students to Raleigh.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 12 Issue 3, Spr 2014,
p57
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19040
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North Carolina Sea Grant is funding North Carolina State fisheries biologists to small fish such as the mummichog act as sentinels for the health of North Carolina tidal creeks.
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34638
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In this interview, Dr. Maria DeGuzman, professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reflects on her “outlier” status and how it has affected her work. After being born in Spain, her family moved to South Carolina and then to North Carolina. She is also the Director of Latina/o Studies, the first one in the southeast United States.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 22 Issue 1, 2013,
p62-72, il, por, f
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18432
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Prestage Farms, located in Clinton, recently donated ten million dollars to North Carolina State University. Donated money will aid in maintenance and upgrades to the University's poultry science building. Accepting this donation is controversial after a 2012 reported on abuse and neglect of animals on the Prestage Farms.
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25503
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Ted Batemen, an associate professor in UNC and NC State’s Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, helped design an experiment with NASA. The experiment sent mice into space to study bone tissue growth. Batemen’s team found that the placebo mice lost bone mass as expected, and the drug-treated mice gained bone.
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36086
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Among the firsts that ECU may claim: offering online proctoring for students from all sixteen higher education institutions in the UNC system. Perhaps this was not surprising, though, given its renown as a co-pioneer in Distance Education in North Carolina.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Winter 2011,
p9
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27964
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The Triangle area is working hard to contribute to a future gasoline-free future. The advances in electric car and battery technology are explored in-depth. Research on the technologies is taking place at North Carolina State University’s FREEDOM Systems Center and the College of Engineering and at Raleigh’s Advanced Vehicle Research Center. Duke Energy and Progress Energy are local utility companies who are committing to leading the way by reducing their use of coal and nuclear power in favor of renewable energy.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 27, July 2010,
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27966
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North Carolina State University is planting hops to see if the crop can replace tobacco as a cash crop in the state. The research may also allow local beer makers to produce beer using locally grown hops. 10 varieties are being grown to look for disease resistant varieties. The history of the crop’s use in beermaking is detailed.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 27, July 2010,
p29
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28034
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Part of the Lake Raleigh Woods Nature Preserve is being is the site of the new North Carolina State Chancellor’s new home. Randy Woodson says that he needs a private place to secure donations for the university. Residents who use the preserve say that the university is violating its agreement to restrict development in the preserve. Known as The Point, the new chancellor’s house will provide space to host up to 250 people at fundraising events and the site will cut off popular hiking trails.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 43, October 2010,
p5-7
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3684
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Larry Monteith will retire in August, 1998, as chancellor of N.C. State University. Among his accomplishments are the Engineering Graduate Research Center and the Campaign for N.C. State Students, a plan to raise $80 million for 2,000 academic scholarships.
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26496
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Dr. Edward Noga, an associate professor of aquatic medicine at North Carolina State University, says environmental stress from pollution or salinity changes may predispose crabs to develop shell lesions that often are lethal.
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590
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North Carolina State University leads researchers in solving the hazardous waste disposal crisis.
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603
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North Carolina State University helps businesses keep abreast of the global market and move into the future.
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18582
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World competition, rapid technological change, and increasingly demanding consumers are forcing manufacturers to look at their operations in radically different and new ways. North Carolina State University, meanwhile, is committed to serving as a driving force behind North Carolina's efforts to compete in the fast-changing marketplace.
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31317
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Through the Humanities Extension Program, top North Carolina State University professors have taught literature, history, political and social issues to more than ten-thousand participants. The program creates new partnerships and builds on existing relationships between the college and communities across the state. The program consists of four-week seminar sessions, and is a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.
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