In the News
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New Smart Collar Helps Puppies Become Guide DogsJanuary 3, 2020 IBM, NC State University, and Guiding Eyes for the Blind team up to create a new smart collar that will help those with disabilities get the dog they deserve.
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NC State grad sets record for longest spaceflight by a womanDecember 28, 2019 A U.S. astronaut who is a North Carolina State University graduate has set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. NASA officials say Christina Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Saturday broke the 288-day record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson. |
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US Astronaut Sets Record for Longest Spaceflight by a WomanDecember 28, 2019 A U.S. astronaut—and NC State ECE alumna—set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. |
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$9M grant to NC State may help make rooftop solar cheaper and easierDecember 26, 2019 A grant to North Carolina State University and several partners could make installing rooftop solar energy systems much less expensive and time consuming. Researchers will use the five-year, $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to design solar energy systems and installation and connection procedures that require little or no customization by homeowners and installers. The systems would set up quickly and connect to the power grid easily, while still meeting building and electrical codes. |
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Cisco UCS powers HPC clusters for student competitionNovember 15, 2019 In the rolling hills of North Carolina, two renowned universities, Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University (NC State), engage in a friendly academic rivalry. This relationship is about to get tested as both universities have been selected to participate in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at SC19, the premier HPC conference, which will take place in Denver on Nov 18-22. |
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NC State expanding Community College Collaboration Program, adding more students and partner schoolsNovember 14, 2019 “(Community college) students should be encouraged (to apply). They don’t know what they can get into unless they try,” said Ben Falero, who began at Carolina Community College in Sanford before he was accepted in the C3 program. Falero, who is majoring in computer and electrical engineering, said he has had a smooth transition to NC State. |
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Six New Teams Vie to Take Crown in Student Cluster Challenge at SC19November 13, 2019 Berra Kara, a junior computer engineering and applied mathematics major at North Carolina State University, said her team took NVIDIA’s courses on CUDA to learn how to use the software for their cluster. The team, “WolfPack HPC,” said GPUs help provide a performance boost when running these applications. |
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A Case for Factoring Tech Transfer Activities into Promotion and Tenure DecisionsNovember 7, 2019 In a panel discussion at AUTM’s 2019 Eastern Region Meeting, Laura Schoppe from Fuentek, Daniel Stancil from North Carolina State University and Justin Streuli from University of North Carolina at Greensboro made a compelling case as to why academic committees should consider tech transfer activities when making promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions about faculty.
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Building a better guide dogOctober 18, 2019 To meet the growing need for guide dogs the NC State, Guiding Eyes for the Blind and IBM have teamed up to find the best candidates through the use of artificial intelligence. “Our aim is to get as much quantified and objective information as possible,” says Alper Bozkurt. |
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The power to changeOctober 15, 2019 In their work at North Carolina State University, Barkha Gupta and Rhett Davis showed that for a single silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process, which typically exhibit low leakage levels, the ratio of off-currents through an inverter versus a more complex NAND4 transistor stack varies dramatically with changes in process conditions at the fab. |
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These ‘smart collars’ and ‘smart vests’ help in training guide dogsOctober 8, 2019 A collaboration between NC State, IBM, and Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a nonprofit organization, is aimed at improving guide dog training. Dogs-in-training are outfitted with “smart collars” and “smart vests,” which upload data – ranging from heart rate to activity level – to the IBM cloud for analysis. |
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NC State lands new center to study 5G wireless and dronesSeptember 18, 2019 NC State University is partnering with the National Science Foundation to study the interaction of drones with 5G wireless technology. The center could attract private companies and researchers to Raleigh. |
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NCSU, partners land $24M grant to develop first platform linking drones, 5G wireless technologySeptember 18, 2019 N.C. State University and several partners have landed a $24 million federal grant to create the first wireless platform to link drones and emerging next-generation technology known as 5G. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. ignite, an organization seeking to drive broadband availability and use across the country, announced the awarding of the grant at an event Wednesday afternoon. |
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Power PlaySeptember 1, 2019 Breakthrough technology from an engineering research center—the NSF FREEDM Systems Center at NC State—could help prevent blackouts while allowing the grid to run on clean energy. |
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Live from space: NC State graduate Christina Koch speaks to Durham studentsAugust 31, 2019 More than a thousand students from all over North Carolina as well as NC State spent the morning taking part in an out of this world conversation. Astronaut and NC State graduate Christina Koch, who is currently floating hundreds of miles above the Earth, spoke to the students live from the International Space Station. |