IEI First in Future Podcast: Prof. Larry Silverberg and the perfect free throw

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a weekly program from the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about the future of North Carolina. Each week, we talk with business leaders, elected officials, researchers and people working bottom up and top down to make North Carolina great. We hope you’ll use their thinking to jumpstart your thinking about our state—where it is and where we might go together.

In this special March Madness edition, IEI Director Leslie Boney speaks with NC State professor Larry Silverberg of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department about his research into shooting the perfect freethrow! Angles, backspin, just where to shoot the ball, we learn it all in this special March Madness edition of First in Future!

Watch First in Future each Tuesday on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Channel at 8:30 p.m., or listen to the podcast on iTunes or at emergingissues.org. Visit UNC-TV for specific show air dates, and find your local TV listing here: unctv.org/watch/channels.

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This post was originally published in Institute for Emerging Issues.