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September 13, 2009

Sullivan: "We will be able to hire additional staff. We'll certainly buy more equipment and that will come from vendors in the local area, as well as across the United States. So, yeah, it will create jobs, both directly and indirectly."

Romans: "It's good timing. State cuts will slash 5 to 10 percent from the school's budget this year. Stimulus will offset some of the loss."

Lomax: "It will definitely help us retain and bring in more graduate students. And those were positions that we were losing."

Romans: "Researchers in this department are working on advanced technology for the electrical grid. Potentially changing the way we use power in our homes. Department leaders have applied for more than $7 million for the project."

Sullivan: "We're really true believers, a lot of this advanced energy technology and the stimulus money is helping us to develop these further and get things in place fairly quickly. So we've done all we can to get our share of it here at North Carolina State."

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