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RENCI Teams with UNC on BOT 2.0
6/27/2008 – A UNC Chapel Hill team that includes RENCI will launch an new curriculum that uses social computing tools to teach botany.

NC-EONS observation platform nears completion
6/18/2008 – RENCI engineers continue to install the power and communications infrastructure for the platform in the Pamlico Sound off the coast of North Carolina.

RENCI at ECU teams with local schools on hurricane awareness
6/12/2008 – Faculty and staff at RENCI’s ECU engagement site spread the word about hurricane awareness at Dare County schools.

Renaissance Bistro to Feature Multimedia Communication Tools
6/2/2008 – Three-dimensional visualizations and interactive touch screen displays will be among the multimedia tools showcased at the latest Renaissance Bistro.

Grad students named Masters Fellows by RENCI at ECU
5/19/2008 – Two ECU grad students will receive support for their master's theses work through the new RENCI at ECU Masters Fellows program.

An ‘illuminating’ experience in the Social Computing Room
5/19/2008 – UNC Chapel Hill art students find a unique environment for their final projects at RENCI's UNC Chapel Hill engagement center.

This ROVER does some amazing tricks
5/6/2008 – RENCI’s high tech education and outreach van is a new tool for Asheville area teachers.

Three NC counties win weather stations through RENCI competition
5/5/2008 – Weather Web means better weather data, new curriculum in underserved counties.

Visualization Challenge shows the power of imagery
5/1/2008 – ECU students gave the display wall at RENCI at ECU a workout during the center’s first Visualization Challenge.

RENCI introduces technical reports series
4/29/2008 – Read about the latest work of RENCI researchers through the newly introduced technical reports series.

New RENCI location engages Duke campus community
4/25/2008 – The new engagement center will open it doors in May, expanding the RENCI virtual organization to eight facilities across North Carolina.

RENCI sensor network research seminar April 25
4/18/2008 – Learn more about sensor network research and how it has evolved in the past few years from abstract discussions to actual hardware and algorithms, and its transition into the real world.

OSG taps RENCI to build communities of cyberinfrastructure users
4/15/2008 – RENCI will lead an Open Science Grid effort to extend cyberinfrastructure to new researchers and campuses.

RENCI at Duke to present workshop on human-computer interaction
4/3/2008 – An NSF-sponsored workshop will look at new ways to interact with computers to aid science and discovery.

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