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Research Improves Accuracy of Climate Models – Particularly for Compound Extreme Events

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Aug 15, 2025

Cracking the Corn Code

CALS Faculty have teamed up on several interdisciplinary research projects aimed at cultivating new, efficient ways of growing corn to make the crop more resilient.
NC State's Memorial Belltower stands in front of a clear summer sky.

Aug 14, 2025

Jacob Jones Appointed Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Initiatives

Jones, who is also the director of the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center and director and principal investigator of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), will keep his academic appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and will continue to serve in his administrative capacities for both STEPS and RTNN.
North Carolina Blue Crab.

Aug 14, 2025

Will North Carolina’s Blue Crabs Go Extinct?

Environmental stressors may push blue crab populations to their breaking point.
illustration shows how a microbe is mutated to produce a new microbe that produces more plasmid dna for use in biomedical applications

Aug 13, 2025

‘Controlled Evolution’ Dramatically Boosts pDNA Production for Biomedical Manufacturing

The advance is significant because the new technique could drive down the cost of gene therapy treatments.
image: close-up of a chicken.

Aug 11, 2025

Mapping the Impacts of North Carolina’s Poultry Industry

NC produces over 1 billion chickens and turkeys per year and is home to over 4,600 poultry farms.
satellite image shows the night side of earth, with cities lit up by electric light

Aug 8, 2025

New Physical Model Aims to Boost Energy Storage Research

The new model can be incorporated into computational tools to help design better batteries and capacitors.
Cameras are mounted to a beam that's attached to the top of a small tractor

Aug 5, 2025

Researchers Pursue Automated Staking for Ag Labor Savings

Amid agricultural labor shortages, a university horticultural scientist is working with the N.C. PSI’s Makerspace to automate a labor-intensive process vital for tomato production.
Kedena Henriques-Thompson and Andrianna Hodges examine a white athletic shoe with red stripes in a lab space. One woman holds the shoe up while the other observes.

Aug 4, 2025

NC State Student Contributes to Athletic Footwear Research 

Andrianna Hodges’ interest in sports performance testing as a textile engineering undergraduate led her to participate in the Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer.
A green-metallic New World screwworm fly on a branch

Jul 30, 2025

What to Know About the New World Screwworm

NC State University entomologist Maxwell Scott discusses efforts to eradicate the New World screwworm and new genetic approaches under development for controlling the parasite, which feeds on living tissue in livestock and other mammals.
satellite view of a hurricane or typhoon nearing a coastline

Jul 29, 2025

Research Improves Accuracy of Climate Models – Particularly for Compound Extreme Events

The advance should provide policymakers with improved climate projections that can be used to inform policy and planning decisions.