Vol. 24 No. 9, September - September 2004
Index
- An experiment in interaction pays off: Centennial Campus has become a model that universities across the country are attempting to reproduce.
- Exploring a deep sea of knowledge: research at the Center for Marine Science could lead to innovations that advance drug development and feed the world.
- For many North Carolina start-ups, biology is destiny: the Biotechnology Center has provided $14.5 million to 86 companies for product research and development.
- How to become a center of attention: with its growing infrastructure, ambitious agenda and creative research centers, UNC Greensboro capitalizes on its strengths.
- Leading the state's economic transition: as never before, North Carolina's colleges and universities are viewed as major economic resources.
- On the road to innovation: the Triangle has an entrepreneurial culture unlike anywhere else.
- Research pumps millions into North Carolina economy: faculty discoveries have created 25 spinoff companies that are creating jobs and attracting new investments.
- Seeing new solutions: from a pivotal UNC discovery, Inspire scientists created a myriad of novel compounds and a solid pipeline of potential new products.
- Setting the pace for university research: from its beginnings as a small teachers college, East Carolina has grown to become a nationally known research center.
- Shaping what's ahead: UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte Research Institute provide intellectual capital to spur economic growth.
- The journey from lab to market: with Parion Sciences Inc., a University of North Carolina scientist is putting a promising discovery on the path to commercialization.
- The spark that ignites ideas: through its R & D, venture funds, statewide research and education network, and grid computing, MCNC is a catalyst for growth.
- Telling stories.
- It pays to advertise.
- Manager in chief.
- Risk trumps reward.
- Trend.
- Regions should muster clusters.
- A plan to build a 400-foot, $1 million lighted tower to attract tourists is dead.
- EasternNC Natural Gas.
- Expansion treads water with jobs.
- Livedo.
- McCarty.
- Ocean Dunes.
- Toastmaster.
- Working capital.
- Adherex Technologies.
- Amkor Technology.
- Atlanta-based BWAY, which makes steel and plastic containers, purchased North America Packaging.
- Charles River Laboratories International.
- M.L. Morgan Enterprises.
- Merck.
- Progress Energy.
- Restatement has investors seeing red.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals.
- Synthon Pharmaceuticals.
- TriVirix.
- Ultimus.
- Forsyth Technical Community College.
- Fuel distributor Quality Oil bought Smitherman Oil of Pfafftown.
- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.
- Gildan Activewear.
- Luwa Industrial Piping.
- Office tower set to take off near PTI.
- Pike Electric.
- Shamrock Environmental.
- TransTech Pharma.
- Black & Decker.
- BofA puts it on plastic and baseball.
- Caraustar Industries.
- Carlisle.
- Dalco Nonwovens.
- Duke Energy.
- Eastman Kodak.
- Gregory.
- Hickory Regional Airport.
- Hunter Douglas Designer Shades.
- Kings Mountain International.
- Poppelmann.
- Shurtape Technologies.
- Southern Ideal Door.
- The Cypress Group.
- City spins multiuse complex from mill.
- Earth Fare.
- Henderson County commissioners approved a growth plan tying development to preservation of farms and availability of water and sewer services.
- Land-of-Sky Regional Council.
- NAPCO.
- WCQS-FM will acquire the license of Mars Hill College's WVMH-FM, move the transmitter and boost power.
- 9/11 attacks could hurt Triad Hebrew academy.
- From Warrior to Healder: 99 True Stories from a General to His Children.
- Good to Great.
- Good to Great.
- Hospitals engage in life-or-death contest.
- "Nature Boy" Ric Flair.
- Figuratively speaking.
- Fortunately for NASCAR and PowerAde, the Lowe's sign fell off while Johnson was being interviewed.
- Greensboro Generals.
- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
- Lowes Foods.
- Meg Scott Phipps.
- NASCAR fined Jimmie Johnson $10,000.
- Pepsi also sponsors Johnson's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon.
- Rutherford County has the highest percentage of residents in a North Carolina community college ...
- U.S. Forest Service.
- Lawyers prosper by poor-mouthpiecing.
- BB & T's COO was one of the original fab five.
- His firm sees some explosive growth.
- Medicine man grows by thinking small.
- Cell-phone tower owner signals a new strategy.
- Tar Heel stock watch.
- Will Edwards get down to business?
- More members mean more money for ACC.
- Changing channels: even when the reception was good, nobody had a clear picture of these Southern Pines enterprises.
- Legal tinder: Tar Heel CEO pay didn't increase as much in 2003, but it still fans the flames of shareholder discontent.
- Pay vs. performance.
- The diplomat: UNCC Chancellor Jim Woodward turned a commuter school into a research university by making sure it knew its place.
- Feat of clay: the gritty, redbrick grandeur of Durham's tobacco factories survives in new guises.
- Insurance industry changing with conditions.
- A new day: Eastern N.C. shapes its future.
- Bricks & mortar.