NC State Feature Stories

Stories Tagged ‘centennial campus’

The Innovation University

From cutting-edge classroom techniques to advanced partnerships with government and industry, NC State is North Carolina's innovation university.

Think and Do

The James B. Hunt, Jr. Library, located on North Carolina State University’s research campus, is the library of the future — a place to acquire knowledge and apply it.

World Class

The Hunt Library, NC State's newest signature building, opened for business on Jan. 2.

The Library Of The Future

When it opens in early January, the Hunt Library will be more than a signature NC State building: it will create new ways to learn, research, collaborate and strengthen the university’s long tradition of leading transformative change.

Center Will Create Self-Powered Sensors

North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it.

On the Waterfront

An oversized Whoopee cushion, several superheroes and an assortment of costumed critters joined their 'human' classmates for Saturday's Polar Plunge - an icy dip into NC State's Lake Raleigh - to help raise more than $60,000 for Special Olympics North Carolina.

The French Connection

Like many prospective engineers, Quentin Vermont is here in part to broaden his job prospects. But unlike most other engineers on campus, Vermont is pursuing a degree from the France-based SKEMA Business School, which opened its first U.S. campus at NC State last month.

Bronzed and Beautiful

Near NC State's free expression tunnel, a trio of five-foot-tall, 1,200-pound wolves stands guard over the hustle and bustle of everyday campus life. The sculptures, funded from non-appropriated, non-student-fee dollars, were formally installed and unveiled Tuesday, Mar. 9, at 2 p.m.

A Library In Your Pocket

When it comes to information about NCSU Libraries, yeah, we’ve got an app for that. The NCSU Libraries Mobile Web site provides students and faculty with the most complete of library services currently available for mobile devices. Using any mobile device with Web access, NC State students and faculty can access a range of library information – from book and article searches, computer availability to the length of the line at the café and Webcam views of construction at the new Hunt Library on Centennial Campus.

The 22nd-Century Library

Armed with aspirations of doubling the amount of library seating space available to NC State students, university officials and dignitaries from around the state have broken ground on a state-of-the-art, Centennial Campus-based facility that will undoubtedly set the standard for libraries constructed during this century and beyond.

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