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Genetically Improved Loblolly Tops Biotech Center Addition

It’s not the tallest, but it may be the highest outdoor pine tree in the Research Triangle area this holiday season–and highly symbolic to boot.

The tree is a five-foot loblolly pine grown by North Carolina State University specialists as part of a massive genetic improvement project.

This research tree was an ideal specimen [...]

Risk Management Firm IEM Picks RTP For HQ Location

IEM, an international risk management consulting firm based in Louisiana, is moving its headquarters to RTP, creating 430 jobs, announced Monday at the Research Triangle Foundation.

IEM could receive as much as $9 million in rebates from withholding taxes paid for employees as part of a Job Development Investment Grant from the state. North [...]

Techie Tuesday and World AIDS Day

Did you know that the Triangle region is a center of excellence in global health?

Anchored by such global health institutes like RTI International, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and the Triangle Global Health Consortium, the region is at the [...]