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RDU and Wake Tech Partner for Continuing Education
Raleigh-Durham International Airport will partner with Wake Technical Community College to make the airport’s firearms range available to professional law enforcement officers for continuing education purposes. The outdoor firearms range is used primarily by airport police officers for… Read more >
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Raleigh Ranked America's Best City
After months of working with data, Businessweek.com named Raleigh as the No. 1 Best City in America. Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on 16 criteria including: the number of restaurants, museums, colleges, libraries, professional sports teams, i… Read more >
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Forbes.com ranks Raleigh as the No. 1 Best Place for Business and Careers
You may have heard that Forbes.com ranked Raleigh as the No. 1 Best Place for Business and Careers, but what you may not know is that this is the fourth time out of the past five years that Raleigh has been ranked No. 1. With low businesses costs (18 percent below the national average), and… Read more >
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Rolesville High School Wins Major Award
Wake County Public School System’s newest high school prototype, Rolesville High School, was recently awarded the 2011 Architectural Design Award for Best Proposed Project at the Council of Education Facility Planners International Southeast Regional Conference. The Council of Educati… Read more >
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The Umstead Hotel and Spa given Five Diamond rating by AAA
The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary received the 2012 AAA Five Diamond Award, a highly respected symbol of excellence in the hospitality industry and the highest honor granted by AAA. Since opening in 2007, The Umstead has been distinguished as a Five Diamond establishment all five years. More… Read more >
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Joint MBA/biomanufacturing degree to be offered at NCSU
North Carolina State University has announced the launch of a Master of Biomanufacturing/Master of Business Administration degree. It will be offered jointly through the Jenkins MBA Program, part of the Poole College of Management, and the Golden Leaf Biomaufacturing and Training Center. It&… Read more >
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Triangle is central for Smart Grid development
The Triangle region has become a national hub for the emerging Smart Grid industry. Smart Grid is a digital technology used to monitor and regulate the movement of electricity from the power plant to homes and businesses. Over the next decade, smart grids are expected to replace the nation&… Read more >
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Dr. Huang develops smart transformers
Dr. Alex Huang, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, is working to revitalize aging power grids. He is reinventing the transformer, which currently reduce the voltage of electricity allocated to neighborhoods so that it can be used in homes and offices. T… Read more >
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Triangle to be Feature of Delta's Sky Magazine in July
Delta Airlines’ Sky magazine is planning to do an editorial feature of the Triangle area. It will be the feature of the July 2011 edition and will be available on-board Delta flights, as well as online at deltaskymag.com and in bookstores throughout the United States and Canada. The p… Read more >
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Wake ranked North Carolina's healthiest county
In a collaborative report between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Wake County ranks no. 1 in North Carolina for overall health. The report, assessing wellness in nearly all of the nation’s counties, considers a varie… Read more >
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