Research Triangle Park

Research Triangle West: Bringing knowledge production to the western Piedmont

Posted on October 7, 2010
Categories: Cabarrus, Charlotte, County, Greensboro, Guilford, Kannapolis, Maps, Mecklenburg, Winston-Salem Tags: DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMY, NC A&T, NC Research Campus, Research Triangle Park, Transit, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, Wake Forest

In the early 1950s the not yet established Research Triangle Park (RTP) was pitched to Governor Luther Hodges as a cluster of “two medical schools, two engineering schools and a core of preeminent researchers in every field of science.” Hodges response: he called the presenter (a dean at NC State College) a “huckster.”[i] North Carolinians […]

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