Dee Shore

Feb 15, 2012

New estimates of the value of time

Our time is a limited resource, and so we implicitly place a value on it. Often we pay to save time: for example, on toll roads, on flying instead of driving, and on paying for yard maintenance. But do we have any idea about what value people put on their time? N.C. State University economist Mike Walden responds. 

Feb 14, 2012

Emily Meineke: Scaling up research on tiny pest

Will climate change make scale insects more abundant? That's one of the questions Ph.D. student Emily Meineke is trying to answer as she studies these tiny -- and abundant -- pests. 

Feb 14, 2012

Progress in deleveraging

In recent years households have been working hard to reduce their debt. Most economists say this effort is essential to provide a sound footing for an economic recovery. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden takes a look at how have we done and how much more debt reduction is needed. 

Feb 13, 2012

Scientists lay groundwork for cabbage breeding program

KANNAPOLIS, NC – Two scientists with the N.C. State University Plants for Human Health Institute at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis are studying more than 300 cabbage varieties as part of the initial phase in a cabbage breeding program. 

Feb 13, 2012

The essential economic question

Why does the discipline of economics exist? Hear what N.C. State University economist Mike Walden tells beginning students as he explains the essential economic question. 

Feb 12, 2012

Biodiversity project maps urban ants

An innovative project from the CALS Department of Biology is tapping into the curiosity of young and old -- and all ages in between -- in an attempt to map the ants living in urban areas across the United States. 

Feb 11, 2012

Healthy Connections

CALS graduate student Amanda Draut and fellow Kannapolis Scholars host conference to improve communication about childhood obesity. 

Feb 11, 2012

It's Muscadine Time!

A grape smoothie is just one of many products with powerful potential, thanks to a CALS partnership with muscadine growers. 

Feb 10, 2012

April Wynn chosen for Preparing the Professoriate program

As a CALS doctoral candidate in genetics and one of the newest fellows of N.C. State University’s Preparing the Professoriate program, April Wynn is a giant step closer to living her dream. 

Feb 10, 2012

Bringing science to life

It’s an exciting time in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a time when researchers are rapidly advancing our understanding of plants, animals, people and the world they live in – and a time when this knowledge is generating innovative solutions to some of the greatest challenges that face our state, nation and world.