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NC State news is shared far and wide. Below are just some of our recent appearances in local, regional, national and international media publications.

Feb 13, 2025 Think Global Health

U.S. Egg Prices Reach 45-Year High as Bird Flu Intensifies

“If you are the farmer, I’m sorry. The statistics don’t count how devastating it is for them. It’s devastating to have to put your animals down,” said Rocio Crespo, a professor and poultry veterinarian at North Carolina State University. 

Feb 13, 2025 Yahoo! News

$20M to biomedical engineering at UNC, NC State University

NC State alumnus Ross Lampe junior made the investment to help conduct more research, as the fields of science and engineering evolve. 600 students are currently in this program. 

Feb 13, 2025 CBS17

NC State alumus invests $20 million to joint UNC, NC State biomedical research

A man gives back to his alma mater with a seismic investment dedicated to health care. Ross W. Lampe Jr., an N.C. State University alumnus and philanthropist, announced Wednesday he is investing $20 million in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, a collaborative research department between NC State and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. 

Feb 13, 2025 The New York Times

How Can My Valentine’s Flowers Show the Earth Love, Too?

It’s also getting more common for smaller American growers to force other spring flowers into bloom around Valentine’s Day, including anemone, ranunculus and sweet peas, said John Dole, a horticulture professor at North Carolina State University. 

Feb 12, 2025

Wake schools eyeing potential impacts of new tariffs on HVAC, construction costs

Andrew Greenland, an economist at North Carolina State University, told WRAL News the U.S. manufacturers some of these materials, such as steel domestically. But competition for domestic goods could drive up their price, he said. “These tariffs are going to manifest pretty quickly into rising construction costs,” Greenland said. “To the extent that some of… 

Feb 12, 2025 Boise State Public Radio

The health benefits of bird watching

In 2023, Idaho-born Professor Nils Peterson with North Carolina State University got curious about how wildlife activities affected people. “So we we decided to look at the effects of bird watching on well-being.” Peterson held a ten-week research project — where a control group went around business as usual and two treatment groups had some… 

Feb 12, 2025 Impact Lab

Revolutionary $1 Water-Powered Bandage Could Transform Chronic Wound Healing

The research team, led by experts from North Carolina State University, has created an electronics-free, water-powered dressing (WPED) that costs only $1 to produce. Published in Science Advances, this groundbreaking bandage uses magnesium and silver/silver chloride to generate a healing electrical field when activated by water, offering an accessible and affordable solution for chronic wound… 

Feb 12, 2025 Transportation Today

NCDOT tests new road safety app near NC State University

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is aiming to improve mobility and road safety near North Carolina State University in ​Raleigh as part of a multimodal connected vehicle pilot​ project​. The pilot, funded by a $2 million grant from the Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Development program, uses connected vehicle technology to enhance… 

Feb 11, 2025 WRAL

NCDOT’s new pilot project aims to create real-time, interconnected traffic network in Raleigh

People who venture near North Carolina State University may notice new traffic signal equipment installed near the roadway. The equipment is part of a new pilot project from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), which was supported by a $2 million grant from the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) Program. 

Feb 11, 2025 The Charlotte Observer

NC taxpayers could get a higher refund & waived fees in 2025 with these tax code changes

That means a North Carolina resident who earned $50,000 in 2024 would have their income taxed at a rate of 4.5% (instead of 4.75%, as it was the year before), Roby Sawyers, an accounting professor at NC State University, told The Charlotte Observer. Sawyers said that this tax rate has gradually dropped over the last decade.… 

Feb 11, 2025 The Christian Science Monitor

Trump, Musk want to curb FEMA. Its North Carolina response says volumes.

As such, North Carolina serves as a guidepost for reforms, says Gavin Smith, who managed hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina and Mississippi after Hurricanes Floyd and Katrina. “States ought to take more responsibility,” says Dr. Smith, now an environmental planning professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. But states can’t serve up help… 

Feb 10, 2025 The Carolina Journal

Waste Watch: DOGE looks to pinch some pennies

“Pennies don’t seem to be used in many transactions, they often just pile up in jars or in dresser drawers,” said Dr. Andy Taylor, professor of Political Science at NC State University. 

Feb 10, 2025 Louisville Public Media - WFPL

Ky’s governor calls it the world’s largest EV battery plant, workers are looking to unionize

Louisville native Steven Allen, a labor economist at North Carolina State University, says union elections often come when there’s great dissatisfaction at companies. “These union elections, while we can talk about global economic forces and what not, it’s often, ‘Did someone do something that really upset the workers at that plant? Did management make a… 

Feb 10, 2025 Computer Information Technology Daily

The 9 best bed sheets of 2024: Our favorite sets we keep on rotation

The sheets are made from Pima cotton, a high-quality, extra-long-staple cotton. Karen Leonas, a professor of textile sciences at the Wilson College of Textiles, NC State University, told us extra-long-staple cotton is even stronger and more resistant to abrasion than long-staple cotton. That’s likely why the L.L.Bean sheets are extra soft and durable, even though the… 

Feb 10, 2025 The Business Times

Trump tariffs risk US $29,000 rise in US home building costs

Trump said at the World Economic Forum last month that the US does not “need their lumber because we have our own forests”. Those are largely concentrated in the US South, which has already been expanding production in recent years, and in the Pacific Northwest, said Rajan Parajuli, an associate professor of forest economics and…