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A paper published by researchers at N.C. State University found cockroach grooming habits may help developers of insecticide products find better ways of controlling pests.
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The owners of a Sampson County poultry and pork operation have donated $10 million to North Carolina State University for poultry research and education and extension programs, officials said Wednesday. Delete the scoop?
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October 11, 2012 3:40 PM
The N.C. State University Department of Poultry Science will use a $10 million gift to recruit students and hire a professor.
The Department will look for someone with expertise in turkey physiology, immunology, and other poultry-related areas. Delete the scoop?
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Chancellor Woodson, Poultry Science Dept. Head Mike Williams (above) and donor Bill Prestage discuss the importance of the gift in video interviews.
"A $10 million naming gift will help transform NC State’s Department of Poultry Science, a department that supports an important North Carolina – and national – industry.
"The new Prestage Family Department of Poultry Science is named in honor of Bill and Marsha Prestage and their family, who are longtime supporters of NC State and owners of Prestage Farms, a poultry and pork production company headquartered in Clinton, N.C.
"The gift comprises two endowments that will provide income in perpetuity to support a strategic combination of teaching, research and extension programs." Delete the scoop?
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N.C State University officials announced Tuesday that the Department of Poultry Science, which has only 17 faculty members and about 75 undergraduate students, will get a $10 million donation from Clinton-based Prestage Farms, one of the largest... Delete the scoop?
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Dr. Coby Schal, entomologist in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences coauthored the study with authors were Dale Batchelor of NCSU’s Analytical Instrumentation Facility & Marianna Zhukovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Read the paper in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/29/1212466110.abstract
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/04/2656341/nc-state-researchers-say-roach.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy