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Cedars in the Pines: The Lebanese of North Carolina
Cedars in the Pines, a documentary film produced as part of NC State's Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies, will premiere at the NC Museum of History on March 28. The film, free and open to the public, represents the first phase of a multifaceted project to research, document, preserve, and publicize the history of the Lebanese-American community in North Carolina from the 1890s through the present. [...]
Faith, Politics, and Jazz: WUNC Interviews Jason Bivins
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jason Bivins discusses faith, politics, jazz, and his other interests in an interview on on WUNC's The State of Things. [...]
Giving Voice to Children and Families
Joan Pennell serves as lead guest editor for a special issue of Child Welfare, the country's leading journal on the topic. The issue, "Taking Child and Family Rights Seriously" highlights family engagement in child welfare, and Pennell is an expert in the topic. [...]
CSI NC State: Forensics Lab Shines Light on Crime
Researchers from across campus, including key faculty from CHASS, are working with law enforcement to transform the way we solve crimes. [...]
Research News
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Lauren Williams, a communication intern in NC State's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Think our ancestors didn't blog? Think again. Although the term blogging and our electronic way of doing it are relatively new, the idea of disseminating information via informal writing is certainly not. [...]
Last week, NC State hosted the ScienceOnline2012 conference, bringing together a wide variety of people with an interest in communicating about science. [...]
Editor's Note: Readers of The Abstract are generally interested in research, science and technology. People that fall into that camp are often also devotees of science fiction. [...]
The Abstract staff will be taking off for a couple of weeks to prepare for 2012. In an attempt to amuse and entertain ourselves you, we've pulled together a quick quiz on some of the research we've written about over the past year. [...]
For the cover story of this winter's NC State magazine, the NC State Alumni Association magazine's editor talked to researchers across campus who are teaming up to advance work in the area of forensic science. [...]
Akram Fouad Khater, professor and director of Middle East studies, has written a new book about the history of Middle Eastern Christianity. Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2011) tells the story of young 18th century nun, Hindiyya al–'Ujaimi, who underwent two Inquisitions after seeking to establish a convent in the mountains [...]
2012 is shaping up to be a big year for communication related to science. During North Carolina's Year of Communicating Science, the Triangle area will be center stage for those who write about, speak about, and otherwise translate science for the less technicially inclined. [...]
Associate professors of film studies Devin and Marsha Orgeron have shared guest posts on NC State's research blog, The Abstract. Their essays relate to their forthcoming book about educational films, Learning With the Lights Off (Oxford University Press, 2012). [...]