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Aug 21, 2025

The Beauty and Breadth of NC State Research

The annual Envisioning Research contest commemorates its tenth year in 2025. For the past decade, students, faculty and staff have submitted their images to the competition, helping our campus highlight the beauty and importance of scientific exploration and discovery.

Aug 13, 2025

Plants in Focus

Art and science come together in a series of fall NC State events that invite us to think anew about plants and the role they play in our daily lives.

Aug 13, 2025

Sparking Student Entrepreneurism

An award from the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative is helping two Ph.D. students turn lab-based discoveries into commercial products for crop and animal production.

Jul 28, 2025

Meet Bryn Fleming, NC State’s Newest NOAA Hollings Scholar

Rising junior Bryn Fleming, who studies chemistry and chemical oceanography, is the University’s latest recipient of the prestigious national scholarship.

Jul 22, 2025

NIH Awards $2.8 Million Grant to NC State Developmental Biologist for Work Investigating Organ Formation

Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder, a professor in the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for her research investigating how cellular mechanisms guide left-right asymmetric organ formation. Abnormal left-right asymmetry underlies some of our most common and severe birth…

Jul 8, 2025

NC State students are restoring crucial coastal habitats with first-of-its-kind plant nursery

Students in this summer’s marine science field course helped establish a “donor marsh” with thousands of young plants to aid the state’s salt marsh restoration efforts.

Jul 8, 2025

Gut Length Driven by ‘Sexual Conflict’ in Fish Species

In cichlids, some of the genetic loci for gut length are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have the same gut length.

Jul 7, 2025

‘Ice in a Volcano’ Reveals Age of Gas Cloud at Milky Way’s Center

Researchers find clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds – or Fermi bubbles – at the Milky Way’s center.

Jun 19, 2025

Climate Change-Driven Fires Could Double Soluble Iron in Northern Oceans

Increasing wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere are projected to almost double the amount of nutrients such as iron in the atmosphere – with effects on CO2 storage and ocean productivity.

Jun 16, 2025

Meet the 2025 Award for Excellence Winners

NC State announced the 2025 Award for Excellence winners at a June 3 awards ceremony.