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EV charger is more efficient and 10 times smaller than current techOctober 8, 2018 An electric vehicle (EV) fast charger that is at least 10 times smaller than existing systems and wastes 60 percent less power during the charging process, without sacrificing the charging time, has been developed by researchers from North Carolina State University. |
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Triangle’s college towns among most affordable in nationAugust 23, 2018 Raleigh has the 22nd most affordable one-bedroom apartments among college towns, the average one-bedroom monthly rent is $1,125. NC State University students also have the 21st most affordable two-bedroom apartments, with the average rent at $1,364 per month. |
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NC State 2019 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards fuel innovative researchAugust 23, 2018 The 2019 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund at North Carolina State University is awarding grants to researchers tackling everything from blood-clotting nanomaterials and canine cancer vaccines to more efficient electric vehicle chargers. |
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Your Twitter could help NC State study nuclear activity. What are the ethics?August 22, 2018 When you tweet, you can tag your location and all 335 million active Twitter users can see it, including researchers who can use it to draw conclusions — about topics you’d never tweet about. “They want to come up with ways to very closely monitor unauthorized or illegal nuclear activity by remote sensing,” said study co-author Hamid Krim, professor at N.C. State, in a phone interview. |
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NC researchers develop organ-on-a-chip biosensorAugust 21, 2018 “What we really need are tools that provide a means to collect data in real time without affecting the system’s operation,” says Michael Daniele, a professor at NC State. |
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DOE-funded PowerAmerica Institute at NCSU divvies out fresh $20M for innovationAugust 8, 2018 More than four years after then-President Barack Obama announced what would become the PowerAmerica Institute at North Carolina State University, the initiative is doling out a new $20 million tranche to fund innovation. Late Tuesday, the Department of Energy-funded center announced it had awarded funds to six new member projects aimed at enhancing next-generation semiconductors in the U.S. PowerAmerica also announced it had awarded funding for 20 projects, to be led by existing members, for a total of $20 million this cycle. |
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Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear ThreatsJuly 31, 2018 Hiding illicit nuclear programs might be getting harder, thanks to new ways of gleaning and combining clues from various rivers of digital data. |
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Social Media Helps Detect Nuclear Agreement ViolationsJuly 23, 2018 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new computational model that draws on normally incompatible data sets, such as satellite imagery and social media posts, to answer questions about what is happening in targeted locations. |
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Spotlight Q&A: Dr. Subhashish BhattacharyaJuly 16, 2018 Dr. Battacharya recently talked with FREEDM industry member Typhoon HIL and discussed how Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) reduced the cycle time of design, validation, and testing of DC Microgrid controllers from academia to industry. |
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How to build a solar powered EV? SolarPack has some stylish answersJuly 9, 2018 When some students at North Carolina State University decided to enter the American Solar Challenge — a biennial race for solar powered cars — they knew they would be up against some fierce competition from students at other colleges and universities. Typically, the cars that enter are little more than go-karts with a few solar panels held in place with cable ties. But Byron Sells, who began the solar car challenge at NCSU, wanted more than a car that would limp across the finish line as the wheels fell off. “I told the team, ‘Let’s make something compelling that the consumer actually wants to buy,’” he says. |
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Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel’s 3D XPoint Computer MemoryJune 13, 2018 Memory modules using Intel’s 3D XPoint technology are on their way, and researchers at NC State ECE have already figured out how to make them better |
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FREEDM Center celebrates 10 years of electric energy researchJune 3, 2018 This week, North Carolina State University’s renewable energy research lab is celebrating the many inventions, publications and programs it has spearheaded since its start 10 years ago. |
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Future smart clothes could pack serious gadgetryJune 1, 2018 If clothing were packed with thermoelectric generators, body heat could be turned into electricity. Researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh work with a button-sized generator containing a grid of semiconductor rods sandwiched between two ceramic plates. |
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Raleigh ranked No. 1 on Amazon’s finalist housing marketsMay 30, 2018 Raleigh ranks No. 1 for housing, quality of life in new Amazon HQ2 site study by research company ATTOM Data Solutions. |
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Two NASA astronauts headed for the space station have NC connectionsMay 25, 2018 Christina Hammock Koch and Andrew Morgan, both selected as astronauts in 2013, are scheduled for spaceflights next year. Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and physics, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. She has already had an adventurous career. |