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Sep 17, 2024

NC State’s Data Science Academy Is Now the Data Science and AI Academy

NC State’s Data Science Academy will now be known as the Data Science and AI Academy (DSA), to better reflect its focus on and national leadership in AI.

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Sep 16, 2024

NC State Receives NSF Grant to Establish the Center for Accelerated Photocatalysis

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that NC State University will direct a center that deploys self-driving labs (SDLs) to accelerate discovery for reactions that use light as a catalyst in challenging chemical transformations.

Sep 16, 2024

NC State Lands NEH Grant to Decode Old Texts Using DNA

An NC State humanities scholar and university biologists received a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to analyze DNA found in parchment manuscripts to uncover new insights into the humanities and encourage partnerships between the humanities and natural sciences.

Christmas tree farm in Avery County just outside Newland.

Sep 16, 2024

Growing Christmas Trees for the Future

NC State is leading a nearly $7.5 million project to accelerate the genetic improvement of Christmas trees to mitigate the impacts of climate change and disease and pest outbreaks.

Sep 12, 2024

North Carolina State University Joins National Energy Innovation Hub, Boosting Battery Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $62.5 million grant supporting a new energy research hub involving 15 research institutions, including North Carolina State University, to advance sustainable and economical electrochemical energy storage for electric grids.

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Sep 11, 2024

Gallery: The 2024 Envisioning Research Winners

From volcanoes to microscopic polymers, NC State researchers highlighted their vital work in natural resources, biochemistry, engineering and more through the 2024 Envisioning Research Contest.

Sep 10, 2024

Sight Unseen, Students Design UX for Intelligence Analysts

A Fictitious Terrorist Attack “In 2019 a bombing killed two people and injured others in the city of Macondo, a mountain town in Oceania. A commercially made drone fitted with…

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Sep 9, 2024

Precision Sensors: An Innovative Future for Agriculture

Interdisciplinary teams in the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative are innovating sensors to help farmers face emerging plant diseases and climate change.

Adam Nahor and Sierra Hunter working in a chemistry lab at NC State

Sep 6, 2024

A Summer of Hands-on Science

Undergraduate students from all over the U.S. spent their summer getting hands-on research experience in NC State’s labs.

Sep 5, 2024

Assistant Vice Chancellor Wade Fulghum to Leave NC State

Wade Fulghum, assistant vice chancellor of new ventures and investments, is leaving the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) to accept an opportunity with the nonprofit organization NCInnovation.