NC State anthropology professor has helped develop skull-mapping software that can trace the ancestry of skulls found by police.
Another active year is in the books at NC State. See how the Wolfpack made a global impact in 2011.
More than 3,400 new graduates received their degrees Saturday during fall commencement activities. The new alumni heard from keynote speaker Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist and NC State alumnus.
Bob Beichner, a professor of physics, is working to replace the traditional lecture at the center of the traditional American classroom.
NC State's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the US Army are expanding a project that offers intensive foreign language training to ROTC cadets and other students. Starting in January, active-duty soldiers will begin studying at Ft. Bragg and, later, on campus.
NC State's growing presence in Asia is opening professional, academic and personal opportunities to the university's students, faculty and alumni.
A pair of NC State researchers is working to replace the traditional lecture at the center of the traditional American classroom. Bob Beichner, a professor of physics, and Lodge McCammon, a curriculum and contemporary media specialist, both favor activities that encouragement applying knowledge over absorbing it.
NC State landscape architecture students have left their mark on the university campus.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks presented unprecedented challenges to our country.
Chief among the tasks facing the United States after the attacks: innovation to meet those challenges. In fields from textiles to foreign-language training, NC State has been at the forefront, yielding better fabrics for firefighters and technology for detecting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in combat zones.
All school colors are not created equal - at least where football fields are concerned.