Tiny Organisms, Transformative Outcomes

Mar 29, 2024

Tiny Organisms, Transformative Outcomes

Nathan Crook, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is discovering how Earth’s simplest life forms might unlock solutions to complex problems like antibiotic-resistant infections, plastic pollution and climate change.

Scott Collins and Kathryn Poloff of Hoofprint Biome pose smiling in their lab coats.

Nov 21, 2023

Trusting Their Gut: NC State Spinout Company Knows Cows Hold the Key to Quickly Cooling the Climate

Hoofprint Biome, which recently closed a $4.25M pre-seed round of venture capital funding, was founded by two NC State Ph.D. grads with the mission to improve cattle’s gut health and, as a result, reduce methane — a major contributor to climate change.

Fireworks explode over the NC State belltower to close down Packapalooza 2022.

Aug 24, 2023

From Ideas to Solutions

Six projects secured support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund this year, and for the first time in the fund's history, awardees will receive supplemental resources through local entrepreneur and investor Bill Spruill’s 2ndF Research Commercialization Fund.

A red and gray machine is attached to wires and has clear bottles of liquid on top. A tray of test tubes is partially visible in the machine.

Mar 7, 2023

New Initiative Aims to Put NC State at the Forefront of Viral Vector Manufacturing

The North Carolina Viral Vector Initiative in Research and Learning builds partnerships among academia, industry and government to become a boon to the biomanufacturing of viral vectors in the state and beyond.

Nov 4, 2022

Catching Up With Winners of the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund: Startup Success Stories

NC State startups supported by the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund are seeking novel commercial solutions to grand global challenges.

Two people in white lab coats and hair nets work at machinery. Packets of orange puree are in the foreground.

Oct 17, 2022

NC State Spinout Company Seeks to Spark Innovation, Fight Food Waste

SinnovaTek, a company co-founded by an NC State professor and one of his former students, helps small-scale entrepreneurs get products to market while curbing food waste from farms.

Sep 1, 2022

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards Support to Six Promising Projects

The Chancellor's Innovation Fund is supporting research to improve wireless EKGs, prevent and remove ice using a coating and make faster COVID-19 antibody tests. It's supporting additional discoveries that could revolutionize human healthcare.

A photograph shows an oil rig standing in the middle of the ocean.

Jul 22, 2022

Fathom Science’s Metocean Forecasting Technology Wades Into Uncharted Territory

Since receiving support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund in 2018, Fathom Science has delivered customized data analytics solutions.

Wang and Barrangou pose for a picture in one of their greenhouses, with Eucalyptus and Poplar trees

Mar 16, 2022

Seed Funding Speeds Growth for TreeCo — an NC State Startup

After receiving support from the Chancellor's Innovation Fund, two professors' sustainable forestry startup is using new technology to mitigate climate change.

Jul 29, 2021

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Catalyzes 6 Promising Projects

This year’s Chancellor's Innovation Fund projects could reshape medicine, immunotherapies, consumer packaging, stealth jets and solar-energy cells.

Jul 29, 2020

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Supports 6 Promising Projects

This year's Chancellor's Innovation Fund winners are working toward safer treatments for human and animal health, novel manufacturing methods for toilet paper, lightweight car frames and synthetic fuel.

Cory Sims works with a dog in the rehabilitation unit at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

May 1, 2019

Research Enterprise Data System Goes Live

NC State debuts the first phase of an online system that aims to streamline research administration.

Matt Simpson