2016

Jul 5, 2016

How Teaching Robots to Identify Microscopic Fossils Could Help Us Understand Oceans

An unlikely partnership is attempting to solve a tricky engineering challenge and advance our understanding of Earth’s oceans. 

Jul 1, 2016

New Timber Contract Ensures Long-term Sustainability for Hofmann Forest

Hofmann Forest timber rights sold to ensure land sustainability, provide consistent annual income for College of Natural Resources. 

Jun 30, 2016

Pollinators Welcome Here

NC State students, staff and faculty are driving an effort to create food sources for bees, butterflies and other creatures who help propagate life through strategic plant selection on the university’s urban campus in gardens filled with pollinator-friendly plants. 

Jun 30, 2016

Hunt Library Among Top 100 Designs

NC State’s Hunt Library, renowned for its blend of advanced technology and ultramodern design, is now considered one of the nation’s top architecture projects. See why it made the list of iconic buildings. 

Jun 30, 2016

Incoming CVM Student Named Tillman Scholar

Maj. Amie Pflaum, former Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, is one of 60 Tillman Scholars for 2016, given annually by the Pat Tillman Foundation. She plans to become a public health veterinarian for the U.S. Army, specializing in humanitarian missions in the developing world. 

Jun 29, 2016

Air Rifle Shooter Wins National Title

NC State air rifle shooter Lucas Kozeniesky, a rising senior in sports management who recently qualified for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, posted three strong rounds to win the USA Shooting National Championships. 

Jun 29, 2016

Student’s Startup Helps Creative Teens

NC State senior Nate Myers has developed a startup creative company that helps teens from low-income backgrounds create multimedia projects often promoting social change. 

Jun 29, 2016

Expanding Outreach to Support Bees and Other Pollinators

A lot of people want to know what they can do to help bees – and a new initiative at NC State is aimed at helping to meet that demand. 

Jun 28, 2016

New Way Out: Researchers Show How Stem Cells Exit Bloodstream

Researchers find that therapeutic stem cells exit the bloodstream in a unique way. 

Jun 28, 2016

Ph.D. Alumni Andrade, Mwanga Win World Food Prize

Two NC State alumni are among the four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize, one of the most important and coveted international awards given in agriculture. 

Jun 27, 2016

Revitalizing Rural Schools

Closing the student achievement gap starts with training outstanding classroom leaders — and that's the goal of the Northeast Leadership Academy at NC State. 

Jun 27, 2016

Corps Function

In 21 rural schools around North Carolina, recent NC State graduates are helping high school juniors and seniors make the leap to college. Meet the College Advising Corps. 

Jun 27, 2016

Researchers Devise Tool to Improve Imaging of Neuronal Activity in the Brain

In a partnership melding neuroscience and electrical engineering, researchers have developed a new technology that will allow neuroscientists to capture images of the brain almost 10 times larger than previously possible. 

Jun 27, 2016

Closing the Gap

Meet two NC State programs working to close the educational achievement gap between North Carolina's rural and urban schools. 

Jun 27, 2016

Collaborative Research to Help Wildland Firefighters Survive

As firefighters in California unite to battle wildfires fueled by extreme heat, researchers from NC State's College of Textiles and College of Natural Resources have joined forces to look for ways to better protect them under the worst circumstances.