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“It looks like a ball of marshmallows.” Six chemistry students sit in a circle in a classroom in Cox Hall, passing around a knobby, plastic mass about the size of a baseball. Spotted here and there…

Renowned garden writer Bobby Ward will join Molly Renda, NCSU Libraries Exhibits Program Librarian, as guests on WUNC’s (91.5) radio show “The State of Things” on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 12:00 p.m. to…

The NCSU Libraries has been awarded a $35,000 grant from The Pentair Foundation to support STEM-related programming and instruction for underrepresented groups at NC State. The grant helps establish…

Problem: when a researcher goes out to photograph wild animals, he or she scares away the animals. Solution: place unmanned “camera traps”—remotely activated cameras—in the wild. That’s the idea…

A drop in the bucket really adds up. The Homecoming Committee selected the NCSU Libraries as the Penny Wars beneficiary for the second straight year. Teams sponsored donation buckets on the Brickyard…

You just might be sitting next to a future Oscar winner. The NCSU Libraries, the Department of Communication and the Art+Design Department co-present the annual Student Short Film Showcase on…

Open source software is great, but can you really run a company with it? Andrew Odewahn, Chief Technology Officer of O’Reilly Media, thinks so. He sees opportunity for organizations in a new…

Moogfest brings its wildly popular mashup of music, art, and technology to the NCSU Libraries for a free evening full of interactive workshops for NC State students, faculty and staff and a…

Some of the most original and innovative storytelling today happens between the covers of graphic novels and comics. Including everything from fantasy to personal memoir, and from documentary to hard…

The NCSU Libraries filled three of the six prestigious slots for the “I’ve Got a Hunch” session at the Association of Research Libraries Fall Association Meeting on September 28 in Washington D.C.…

Some of us are already where we want to be. As part of Red & White Week, five talented NC State alumni who have put down roots in Raleigh gather for a panel discussion about entrepreneurship,…

The James B. Hunt Jr. Library has received widespread recognition as an architectural and technological marvel. But now, because of Hunt Library-inspired renovations, D. H. Hill Jr. is getting some…

As much as you want to believe it, you can’t just Google everything. A lot of scholarly research still sits behind subscription paywalls and in proprietary archives. Open Access Week (Oct. 24-27) is…

For the second straight year, the Homecoming Committee has selected the NCSU Libraries as the beneficiary of its annual Penny Wars fundraiser. All donations of pennies—as well as any other coins and…

Part of Raleigh’s recent renaissance has been the birth of a thriving bike culture, which, as Andrew Harrell—president of NC State’s Student Sustainability Resource Council (SSRC)—notes, can “reduce…

If you’re eating out in Raleigh tonight, chances are pretty good that Ashley Christensen had a hand in cooking it. The James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur runs seven downtown eateries—…

It sounds obvious when you say it—growing populations require more and more resources to survive. Dr. Paul Ehrlich, founder of the field of coevolution and author of the prescient 1968 classic The…

The MoHo Realty Architecture Movie Series resumes this week with a screening of “Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs,” in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium on Thursday, Oct…

Admit it—you kind of want a yacht. You’re not alone. The worldwide market for luxury goods is $1.4 trillion, and the demand for everything from high-end fashion to 64-year-old scotch in…

The Friends of the Library hosts the inaugural “Design & Wine” series event, Discover the Design Library, Friday, October 7 from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Harrye B. Lyons Design Library.…