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The Scope of Our Research: Winners of the 2024 Envisioning Research Contest

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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…
A graphic & data visualization of green and red tomatoes cut in half.

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.
Nicolás Galvez's image of a cockroach preparing to jump off a surface won the Undergraduate Photography first prize in the Envisioning Research contest.

Sep 4, 2024

Envisioning Research Undergrad Winners Bring Work to Life

The undergraduate winners of this year’s Envisioning Research contest created photographs or microscopic images to demonstrate their research, along with its impact and importance.
Photo of Jay Baliga.

Sep 4, 2024

NC State’s Jayant Baliga Wins Millennium Technology Prize

Work on insulated gate bipolar transistors lauded by Finnish foundation.
man sits dejectedly next to a desk with a computer on it. a guitar leans against the desk.

Aug 30, 2024

How Hope Beats Mindfulness When Times Are Tough

The study underscores the importance of looking ahead, rather than living “in the moment,” during hard times.
Picture of corn plant against the sky.

Aug 28, 2024

Diverse Crop Rotations Reduce Risk of Crop Loss Under Poor Growing Conditions

This post was written by Autumn Canady at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are responding to the increasingly uncertain climate. The warmer and more unpredictable weather has been a source of instability on U.S. farms. ARS agroecologists turned to history for a solution to…
Laser images are projected across NC State's Bell Tower.

Aug 28, 2024

NC State Secures $500K NEH Grant to Launch AI Center in CHASS

An intercollege, interdisciplinary team of NC State researchers led by humanities scholars received a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to establish an AI center in CHASS to explore the ethical implications of the technology.
Dogwood in bloom outside Winston Hall.

Aug 27, 2024

Two CHASS Faculty Members Receive NC State Foundation Grants

Communication professor Fernanda Duarte and English professor David Rieder recently received NC State University Foundation Grants for pioneering projects integrating AI and STEM with the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Several blue and yellow tentacles wave from a blue and yellow stem against a black backdrop

Aug 26, 2024

The Scope of Our Research: Winners of the 2024 Envisioning Research Contest

The 2024 Envisioning Research contest captures the spectacular landscape of research being conducted at NC State.