Skip to main content
NC State Lands NEH Grant to Decode Old Texts Using DNA

Archive

a plant with green leaves and purple blooms

Sep 26, 2024

Mining the Potential of pokeweed

Colleen Doherty, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, is investigating whether the plant pokeweed could extract rare earth elements to help power batteries and bolster the green economy.
a woman and a man stand in a field of green crops

Sep 25, 2024

New NC State Web Tool Delivers Precise Soybean Planting Recommendations

BeanPACK, a new soybean growers decision support tool designed to revolutionize on-farm recommendations, will be released Oct. 1, in time to inform statewide planting decisions for the 2025 growing season.…
A professor teaches class in the outdoor classroom outside Tompkins Hall.

Sep 24, 2024

Where Culture and Social Sciences Define Innovation

At the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), these three students have found the perfect place to explore interdisciplinary interests where their creativity and curiosity meet.
Fireworks explode over the NC State belltower to close down Packapalooza 2022.

Sep 19, 2024

NC State CLAWS Hub to Lead $19 Million in ‘Leap Ahead’ Projects

Projects aim to improve the performance of transistors and switches used in important civilian and military technologies.
A woman with braided hair is operating a knitting machine in a workshop. She is focused on her work and smiling. Spools of colorful thread are visible on the machine, and the background shows workshop equipment and a door with a safety sign.

Sep 18, 2024

NC State Student Blends Interests in Science, Fashion Through Research

Maddy Moore shares how the Research Experience for Undergraduates program widened her overall perspective on the textile industry.
Research center buildings in Mills River

Sep 18, 2024

USDA Funds NC State Specialty Crop, Organic Research

Learn more about new U.S. Department of Agriculture funding for NC State research on nursery crop automation, Christmas tree genetics, carbon storage in soil, and organic farming research priorities.
factory smokestacks spew smoke against the backdrop of a blue sky

Sep 18, 2024

Study Outlines Cost-Effective Paths to Eliminating Greenhouse Gas Production

A new study lays out a wide range of options available to cost-effectively eliminate greenhouse gas production from the U.S. energy system by 2050.
Two people stand looking down at a table featuring a digital visualization.

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.

Center for Advanced Photocatalysis logo

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.