Posts tagged “NCSU”
Now hear this: NCSU advances voice security technology
UniversityTech: Researchers say they are able to streamline voice authentication process to make it more practical as security tool.
NCSU develops material that mimics bone, could lead to better implants
UniversityTech: Through research funded by National Science Foundation, NCSU team develops a “metal foam” that could avoid rejection bone rejection in biomedical implants.
NCSU's bone material
What’s better: Saving the world or building another Facebook app?
Opinion: What if we challenged students, entrepreneurs and investors to build businesses that do good for the planet and make a healthy profit doing so? Today, the world faces more problems than perhaps at any point in recent history. Yet we have the greatest minds and the deepest pool of investment capital in the world focused on building Facebook and Twitter apps.
MeadWestvaco is studying closure of R&D facility at N.C. State
Packaging technology and services firm confirms that it has told its Raleigh employees the Center for Packaging Innovation may be moved to Richmond, Va. MWV had received pledge of $5 million in tax benefits in 2006 for the center.
Minn. governor calls for educators to embrace technology
Top execs at Red Hat and IBM, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, the federal government’s CTO, governors, authors and a host of innovative thinkers fill the agenda for the Emerging Issues Forum that is the brainchild of former Gov. Jim Hunt.
The theme for Emerging Issues Forum
‘Smart coating’ could lead to safer implant surgery
UniversityTech: researchers at NCSU develop a new material that could be used in hip, knee and dental implants. The “smart coating” promotes bone growth into the implant.
A closeup of NCSU's "smart material"
‘Fluorescent fish’ at NCSU shed light on gene function
UniversityTech: Researchers insert a fluorescent marker into zebrafish that allows them to track a gene that is linked to tumor development. When gene is expressed, fish turns red under ultraviolet light.
Gene expression turns zebrafish red.
At N.C. Research Campus, greenhouses replace glasshouse in research
NCSU, which had delayed construction of a 75,000 glasshouse facility, is building two smaller greenhouses at the $1.5 billion biotech and life science campus.
Shape-shifting antennas? N.C. State researchers tout a flexible tuning technology
UniversityTech: Modern antennas are made from copper or other metals, but there are limitations to how far they can be bent – and how often – before they break completely. NCSU researchers, however, have created antennas using an alloy that “can be bent, stretched, cut and twisted – and will return to its original shape.”
NCSUS' 'flexible antenna'
NCSU, UNC-CH donning same tech-team color – green, for savings
Both campuses use parts of Oracle's PeopleSoft application, and they're looking to reduce needed investments as UNC takes up the HR and financials portion that N.C. State has been using for a decade.
Tech pioneer Darleen Johns, emerging leader Mike Capps win NCTA ‘21’ honors
North Carolina Technology Association honors Johns, the founder and former owner of IT firm Alphanumeric, for outstanding achievement. Capps, the president at fast-growing Epic Games, receives tech executive of year award. NCSU Chancellor James Woodward is cited for public leadership.
IBM launches education cloud computing forum
NCSU is among the 17 schools systems and higher-education campuses participating in the program.
Terabyte on a chip? NCSU scientists create new material for storage
UniversityTech: “Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,” says nanotechnology researcher Jagdish Narayan .
