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Navigating AI at the 2025 University Research Symposium

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Dec 2, 2025

Behnam Pourdeyhimi to Step Down as NWI Director

After more than 25 years at the helm, Pourdeyhimi will step down as executive director, effective Dec. 31. Raoul Farer, who is currently executive deputy director of NWI, will take over for Pourdeyhimi.
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Sep 12, 2025

IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State Welcomes Newest Member 

The new collaboration with the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) will bring useful quantum resources to higher education and research communities across the state.
A portrait-style photograph of Vice Chancellor Krista Walton standing underneath the portico between Hunt Library and the Wilson College of Textiles

Aug 19, 2025

Get to Know Krista Walton, NC State’s New Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Vice Chancellor Walton shares how her upbringing on a rural farm helped shape who she is today; what she wanted to be when she grew up; and her favorite part of campus so far. 
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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.

May 28, 2025

ORI Recognizes Two Employees With Award for Excellence

This year's winners were Jiyoung Park and Kelsey Fuller. As winners of the Awards for Excellence at the college/unit level, Park and Fuller are automatically nominated for the university-level awards — which will be presented June 3.
NC State's Memorial Belltower stands in front of a clear summer sky.

May 21, 2025

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Backs Six Budding Inventions

This year’s CIF awardees are exploring how to ensure endpoint cybersecurity in the era of quantum computing; make veterinary eye surgeries safer; replace plastic foam with a biodegradable alternative; help farmers grow more crops with less fertilizer; and enhance a cutting-edge gene-editing technique that uses electrical pulses to deliver DNA into cells.
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May 7, 2025

Four Faculty Members Win the 2025 Outstanding Research Award

By winning the award — the university’s top honor recognizing faculty who lead in their fields, commit to mentoring their fellow NC State faculty and advance a multidisciplinary research community — Felix N. Castellano, Bill Rand, Melanie Simpson and Ross Sozzani will be automatically inducted into the Research Leadership Academy.

May 1, 2025

Interim Vice Chancellor Alyson Wilson to Leave NC State

Wilson, the interim vice chancellor for research and innovation, will leave NC State on June 27 to become William & Mary University’s next vice provost for research.
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Apr 24, 2025

NC State to Partner With ChromaGenix on Transformative Toolkit for Manufacturing Biological Therapies

The research partnership will seek to expand the ChromaGenix’s ligand discovery platform, which originated in the College of Engineering.
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Apr 21, 2025

Navigating AI at the 2025 University Research Symposium

NC State's 2025 University Research Symposium "Research With AI: Navigating A New Age" was a hit, bringing together faculty and researchers across disciplines to share how they're using the technology — and learn more about what is next in AI.