NCSU’s Centennial Campus wins national award for economic impact

On the eve of its 30th birthday, N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus has received national recognition for what the judges called “its reinvention of the very notion of what a research park should be.” The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities named four winners of its second annual Innovation and Economic Prosperity University Awards. N.C. State’s Centennial Campus received the “Place” award for “creating a self-sustained city” that includes research facilities, industry offices, residential and retail properties and the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.