Solar Center generators offer relief after storm When a hurricane hits, eight new solar-powered mobile generators at the North Carolina Solar Center have been ready to help. Seminar series commemorates human rights Fifty years ago, the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To help mark the anniversary, the Department of Psychology has scheduled a series of special Human Rights Year seminars. Group plans reading of Rudner novel The Friends of the Library of North Carolina State University will be hosting a special reading of the novel Memory s Tailor, written by the late Lawrence S. Rudner, at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in the D.H. Hill Library s Assembly Room. Research makes oil extraction less risky Research by an NC State University engineer is making it easier, less costly and less risky to the environment for oil companies to extract and refine crude oil, especially from deep-sea wells and other remote or ecologically sensitive locations.
Students hate doing it and teachers dread grading it.
But innovators say homework on the World Wide Web can be more educationally challenging for students and easier to grade and record for teachers. The NC State Music Department has a full slate of events planned for late October and early November. Forster s creations are a labor of love Peggy Forster's quilt creations are never sold, but are rather given with love. The award is the highest honor given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering. The conference is for higher education leaders planning facilities, infrastructure, programs and relationships for tomorrow's learning.