Leading Shaw University: Meet Tashni Dubroy
As a teenager in Jamaica, Tashni Dubroy struggled to understand chemistry. But after a breakthrough moment in her high school chemistry class, she fell in love with the science. She moved to the United...
View ArticleUniversity Endowments Across NC Lose Value
University endowments across the nation took a hit last year, and North Carolina’s universities were not spared. Among North Carolina universities, six of the seven largest endowments declined in...
View ArticleNCSU Suicide Prevention Video Wins Emmy Award
The Nashville Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded a Durham-based production company an Emmy for excellence in visual storytelling for a suicide-prevention video...
View ArticleReport: Global Warming Threatens North Carolina's Bees
Global warming and urbanization are threatening bee populations across the country. One factor in that threat is heat. At high temperatures, bees become unable to reproduce, fly or even walk. So...
View ArticleThe Hollowing-Out Of North Carolina’s Middle Wage Jobs
Nationally the number of people employed in middle-wage jobs rose by 6 percent between 2001 and 2015. But the numbers in North Carolina went in the other direction.
View ArticleHemp Plants Take Root In North Carolina
Cannabis has historically been a taboo subject in North Carolina, but this year, that may be beginning to change thanks to a new law supporting a pilot program for industrial hemp farming.
View ArticleMovies On The Radio: Best Buddy Films
Best friends are the constant in many people's lives. They rescue each other when a car breaks down. They join go on late-night quests for fast food. And they console and support each other in a time...
View ArticleEnrollment At NC Teaching Programs Inches Back Up
A five year decline in North Carolina students enrolling in teaching programs appears to be turning around. The University of North Carolina system saw a 6 percent uptick in education degree-seekers...
View ArticleHat Queens With Attitude Reign In ‘Crowns,’ A Gospel Musical
In the gospel musical “Crowns” every hat tells a story. The production is based on a book of photographs and oral history interviews of African-American women in their Sunday best. Their hats provide...
View ArticleNC State Dismisses 2 Players, Suspends 3 For Misconduct
North Carolina State coach Dave Doeren has dismissed two players from the team and suspended three others for violating athletics department and team rules pertaining to marijuana and alcohol.
View ArticleThe Science Of Spacing Out
Manoush Zomorodi , host of WNYC tech podcast “Note to Self,” has spent years thinking about how people interact with technology. Zomorodi led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to...
View ArticleStudy: More Research Needed On Risk Factors Associated With Terrorism
President Trump has expanded a travel ban on mostly Muslim-majority countries for national security reasons. But N.C. State University psychologists say there isn't enough research on the risk factors...
View ArticleNew Online Program Helps Non-Traditional Teachers Get Licensed
Cyrus Henson arrives at his classroom at 7:15 a.m. each day after an hour-long commute through the foothills of western North Carolina. He teaches a full day of math to freshmen, then stays until 6...
View ArticleCharlie Rose's University Honors Safe, For Now
Editor's Note: On Dec. 4, 2017, Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center announced it will rescind the journalism award it gave to Rose in 2000. The fallout from the sexual harassment charges against...
View Article'What We’re Up Against' A Comedic Look At Sexism In The Workplace
Women in Hollywood came forward this weekend at the Golden Globes to declare that “Time’s Up” for tolerating sexual harassment. Their new initiative is one of many bubbling efforts in the country to...
View ArticleColleges To Prospective Students: Peaceful Protests Won't Keep You From Being...
High school students across the state have been staging or planning walkouts to protest gun violence after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., but some worry that colleges and universities will not...
View ArticleOrchestra Event Honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
April 4, 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. King was shot on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra of North Carolina...
View ArticleFilmmaker Tim Kirkman Returns To NC With A Tale Of Middle-Age Regret
Twenty years ago openly-gay North Carolina filmmaker Tim Kirkman produced a narrative documentary in the style of an open-letter to former Sen. Jesse Helms. The Emmy-nominated “ Dear Jesse ,” featured...
View ArticleNC State Psychologist Develops Fake-Resistant Personality Test
UNC-Chapel Hill Grad Student Janel Burns sat at a laptop in her Durham apartment, taking a sample personality test. It was the kind you might take when you've applied for a new job.
View ArticlePeriodic Tables Event Brings The Lab To Light
Entomologist by training, Holly Menninger has spent much of her life bridging the gap between the science happening in labs across the country, and the general public. As a high school student she was...
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