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Feb 1, 2017

Nearly All Of NC State’s Harrelson Hall Recycled, Salvaged

  Harrelson Hall is gone, but most of its contents and building materials live on due to NC State’s successful recycling and reuse efforts. During the 2016 deconstruction of Harrelson Hall, the […]

Jan 19, 2017

Winning Student Design Reduces Prescription Bottle Waste

An NC State student’s idea for reusable prescription medication bottles has earned top prize in a global design competition. Raleigh native Mallory Barrett won Best Student Design in the Cradle to […]

Jan 4, 2017

Students Help Local Companies Boost Environmental, Social Impact

Is a for-profit company’s only goal to generate profit? A growing number of Triangle-area businesses now also consider social and environmental impact as measures of success, and a cohort of local […]

Dec 14, 2016

LEED Lab Preps Students For Real-World Sustainability

NC State students Madeline Newton and Carly Abney culminated their college experience with a sustainability project of Talley Student Union-sized proportions. In the last class session of their undergraduate career, these […]

Nov 29, 2016

New Fabrication Technique Leads to Broader Sunlight Absorption in Plastic Solar Cells

Researchers have developed a new strategy for fabricating more efficient plastic solar cells.

Jul 20, 2016

Cleaning Up Brownfields Benefits Nearby Property Values

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. commercial and industrial sites are contaminated, with estimated cleanup costs running to the billions. But do the benefits of cleaning up these so-called brownfield sites outweigh the costs? NC State University’s Dr. Laura Taylor explains new research that addresses that question.

Jun 21, 2016

Why is hog waste so difficult to process?

Dr. John Classen, of NC State University’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, explains how different hog waste is from human waste and why it is so difficult to treat.

May 12, 2016

Woodson to Chair APLU Food Security Commission

NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson has been named chair of The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World, a commission convened by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

Feb 24, 2016

106 countries and counting: NC State’s world-renowned vermicompost expert

“There are 25,000 worms in that building behind you,” North Carolina State University’s extension specialist Rhonda Sherman says with a proud smile. It’s not a large-scale infestation; it’s good science at work.

Jan 7, 2016

Housekeeping Wins Green Award

University Housekeeping is recognized for its efforts in keeping NC State’s campus clean with green products, equipment and procedures.