Research Week at NC State

Throughout the week of October 26th in Fall 2020, the Office of Research and Innovation held our first Research Week to celebrate research at NC State. Research week featured multiple virtual events including an interview with the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, a forum highlighting COVID-19 research, a special research administration presentation and much more. Scroll through the page below to view videos and resources for the events hosted throughout the week.

An Interview with the Vice Chancellor

During this pre-recorded interview with Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Dr. Mladen Vouk gives our community an update on the current state of research at NC State, discusses some of the challenges we currently face and examines what we may see on the horizon in the year to come.

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Research Forum

During this interactive, virtual forum the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and his team answer research community questions from NC State faculty, research administration staff, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Research Forum Q&A Resources

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Increasing the Impact of Your Research

Throughout this event, the NC State community had the chance to converse with senior leadership from the Office of Research Commercialization (ORC) and learn about resources such as the Innovator’s Guide to Commercialization and Startup Guidelines.

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Research Administration Presentation

This special presentation titled “Shrimp on a Treadmill: Politics and Perception in Federally Funded Research” is targeted towards our research administrators and is now available to the NC State community.

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NC State Researchers Take On COVID-19

Faculty and the staff at NC State have pivoted from their customary research to study COVID-19, using their expertise in battling the pandemic.

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Highlighting COVID-19 Research

Members of the Research Leadership Academy hosted this forum where the NC State community had the chance to hear from and question a panel of faculty currently conducting research directly related to COVID-19.

Presenter Slides and Videos:

Rodolphe Barrangou – Slides, Video
Dara Bloom and Andrew R. Smolski – Slides, Video
Sarah Bowen and Annie Hardison-Moody – Slides, Video
Ashley Brown – Slides, Video
Ben Chapman – Slides, Video
Jane Hoppin – Slides, Video
Behnam Pourdeyhimi – Slides, Video
Bill Rand – Slides, Video
Francis de los Reyes III and Angela Harris – Slides, Video
Julie Swann – Slides, Video

GRIP4PSI Kickoff

In this kickoff, you will get the chance to learn a little more about the teams selected as winners of the Game‐Changing Research Incentive Program for Plant Sciences Initiative (GRIP4PSI) award.

Videos:

Christine Hawkes – FUN-CROPS: Foliar Fungal Endophytes for Enhanced Crop Sustainability and Resilience
Cranos Williams – Improving Crop Productivity and Value through Heterogeneous Data Integration and Decision Support Platforms
Katharina Stapelmann – Harnessing (bio-) Electrochemical Technologies as Sustainable Sources for On-Demand Precision Agriculture
Jean Ristaino – Plant-Aid: A Data-Driven and Sensor-Integrated Platform for Monitoring Emerging Plant Diseases
Dr. Joann Keyton – Team Science
Dr. Richard Linton – Reflection and Closing Remarks