The Virtual Computing Laboratory at North Carolina State University is the subject of a feature story in this week's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The article, headlined "A Computer Lab That Students Use but Never See," discusses the history of the lab, its growing reach across the state, and recent donations from IBM and Intel that have helped support it.

Nearly 80,000 academics subscribe to the Chronicle, and more than one million unique visitors access its website every month. The newspaper is based in Washington, D.C.

The Virtual Computing Lab is a next-generation computing environment that allows students and researchers to access powerful computing software and hardware remotely. The lab is part of an effort to bring affordable computing resources to the state's K-12 schools, community colleges and universities.

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