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• Summer reading for the teachers: a little variety to stretch the mind—gently

  - 2008-08-07

  With summer in full swing, it is a good time to try lighter fare than the weighty academic reading that occupies the school year and to diversify our selections, especially across ethnic and racial lines. Here is a selection of books on a wide spectrum of cultures and topics: ...

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• Old Dominion Freight Line Elects Dr. John D. Kasarda to Board of Directors

  - 2008-01-09

  THOMASVILLE, N.C. -- Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODFL) today announced the election of Dr. John D. Kasarda to its Board of Directors. Dr. Kasarda is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina - Chapel...

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• Supply Corps Officer excels at UNC at Chapel Hill

  - 2002-11-01

  LCDR Ken Epps recently received the Frank Hawkins Kenan Award for Excellence when he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earning an M.B.A. The award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of academic excellence, service, entrepreneurship and leadership. Epps served as the...

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• An ironic Jim Crow: the experiences of two generations of Southern black men. (Southern Voices).(Edwin Caldwell Sr. and Edwin Caldwell Jr.)

  - 2002-09-22

  "They did not knuckle under to the institution of slavery or, following that, the institution of Jim Crow-ism," reflected Edwin Caldwell Jr. on evaluating some two hundred years of his family's history in North Carolina. Descended from November Caldwell, coachman and slave of the first president...

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• Greensboro universities to partner on tech transfer

  - 2002-09-01

  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro have announced plans to develop a joint technology transfer office. Action Greensboro, an economic development organization, offered to provide $165,000 annually for three years to help fund the initiative to create an Office of Technology...

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• NC A&T, UNCG partner in technology initiative - tech briefs - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Brief Article

  - 2002-07-18

  GREENSBORO, N.C. Entrepreneurs in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina have a technology resource center available to them as a result of a partnership between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Tech Transfer Outreach Initiative was formally...

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• Wide-Range 6D Optical Tracker from 3rdTech Opens New Possibilities for Augmented Reality, Training, VR

  - 2000-08-02

  Business Editors, High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 2, 2000 3rdTech Inc., developing products and businesses from university research, today announced the HiBall-3000 Wide Area Tracker, a new optical tracker that achieves unmatched levels of accuracy, performance and scalability. Based on technology first developed by the...

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• New Portable 3D Scene Digitizer from 3rdTech Sets New Standards for Range and Accuracy

  - 2000-07-19

  Business Editors/High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 19, 2000 3rdTech Inc., devoted to creating products and businesses from university research, today announced the DeltaSphere-3000 Laser 3D Scene Digitizer - a new laser scanner that produces panoramic, accurate 3D point sets over large spaces in record time. ...

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