May 22, 2024 | O&E News Let It Bee By Staff Horticultural science professor Danesha Seth Carley helped reintroduce native plants to the Pinehurst No. 2 golf course for its 2014 men’s and women’s U.S. Open championships. Since then, she’s focused on bringing bees back to Donald Ross’s original design for the course.
May 20, 2024 | NC State Newswire, O&E News Outreach and Engagement 2024 Awards Presented at Annual Ceremony By Mike Nutt NC State recognized this year’s most impactful engaged scholars and staff at an awards celebration on Monday, April 29. The Office of Outreach and Engagement...
May 16, 2024 | O&E News North Carolina Science Festival: Thousands Gather Across the State for Solar Eclipse Star Parties By Staff On Friday, April 5th to Monday, April 8th, 2024, the 12th annual Statewide Star Party, a hallmark event of the NC Science Festival, unfolded across the state to thousands of eager attendees. This year’s theme, “Sun and Moon,” served as a fitting tribute to the solar eclipse that graced the skies on the event’s final day.
May 15, 2024 | O&E News NC State Juntos Attends National 4-H Conference By Staff In April, nine high school students from Wake, Bladen, and Greene Counties got a chance to experience this on a national scale, attending the National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C., as part of the delegation from North Carolina, which included representatives from NC State, NC A&T, and the National Juntos Program.
May 15, 2024 | O&E News Playing with the Future of Farming By Staff The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has partnered with the NC Soybean Producers Association and Marbles Kids Museum to refresh the college’s sponsored On the Farm exhibit and infuse farm technology into the action.
May 13, 2024 | O&E News Daylight Saving Time Spells Bad News for Healthy Habits By Staff Researchers found the onset of daylight saving time is associated with increased consumption of processed snack foods and fewer trips to the gym.
May 9, 2024 | O&E News North Carolina schools have lost significant progress in racial integration By Staff A study of North Carolina public schools finds that even as enrollment becomes more racially diverse, schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1980s. The report, “Can Our Schools Capture the Educational Gains of Diversity? North Carolina School Segregation, Alternatives, and Possible Gains,” found that racial diversity gains in North Carolina…
May 9, 2024 | O&E News What’s Next for Unionization in the South? By Staff For decades, foreign-owned auto companies such as BMW, Mercedes, and Toyota have built and operated manufacturing facilities in the South. Southern states are appealing to these European, Japanese, and Korean automakers because of lower wages and near-zero odds of unionization. But those odds may be changing. Last month, employees at the Volkswagen manufacturing plant in…
May 9, 2024 | O&E News Hoofin’ It: NC State Students Get World’s Finest Farrier Expertise By Staff The trainees in Dr. Raul Bras’ farriery selective learn how important hooves are to horse health before heading out to build relationships with local partners.