We Solve Problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wherever it starts \u2014 in a lab on campus, in a field in rural North Carolina, on an island in the Pacific \u2014 NC State research finds the same destination: the real world. Our faculty and students engage with real problems, and they find real solutions. Our researchers have developed energy-saving smart transformers and life-saving bomb sensors, handheld radiation detectors and cancer-killing nanodaisies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re a leader in big data, biomedical engineering, materials science, food safety, translational medicine and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our research gets results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Innovation is a team sport. That\u2019s why we reach out to partners across the public and private sectors in our search for global solutions. NC State\u2019s Centennial Campus, an award-winning national model for public-private research campuses, houses more than 70 government, industry and nonprofit partners along with more than 70 NC State research and academic units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re working with the National Science Foundation to develop self-powered medical sensors and drive 5G innovation, and we\u2019re collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy and private partners to build a clean-energy manufacturing industry. In every partnership, we work for more than our own interests: We seek solutions that will serve all of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grand challenges facing the world don\u2019t mimic the neat organizational structure of a traditional university. Take hunger, for example: As the climate changes, population grows and arable land shrinks, it\u2019s going to take a collaborative approach to ensure reliable access to plant-based food sources \u2014 and create resilient societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NC State researchers in biology, computer engineering and environmental engineering are merging botany and big data to determine why some plants wither under stress while others thrive. We\u2019re finding new ways to bridge the disciplines every day, whether it\u2019s through our interdisciplinary faculty clusters or state-of-the-art facilities designed to foster collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To truly grasp an idea, you have to apply it. Research plays a central role in refining our students\u2019 understanding of what they learn from our world-leading faculty. Research is inherent to the NC State experience, for the freshman studying sociology as well as the postdoctoral researcher in a biomedical lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our students support faculty research on sustainable energy, clean water, secure computing, human health and a range of other topics. In their own research projects, NC State students have developed solutions to problems small and large, from speeding potential innovations with quantum dots to helping future space explorers access the surfaces of asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When faculty, students and partners work across disciplines to solve serious problems, the result of their work benefits everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s the net effect \u2014 and the constant goal \u2014 of NC State research: to create economic, societal and intellectual prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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