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Scientists Link Europe Heat Wave to Man-Made Global Warming

August 2019

On June 5-6, 2012, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory collected images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. NASA/SDO, AIA

Aug 23, 2019

Why We Need to Get Back to Venus

Planetary geologist Paul Byrne explains why we need to get back to our cosmic neighbor.
SAS Hall

Aug 21, 2019

NC State Statistics Program Ranked No. 20 Globally

NC State’s statistics program has been ranked 20th in the world on a prestigious scorecard of international universities.
A female student makes the wolf ears sign while standing on a tree-lined sidewalk

Aug 20, 2019

Networking Lunch Program Helps Students Find Professional Opportunities

More than 100 students have participated in a College of Sciences program that matches undergraduates with alumni who can share professional expertise.
Chris McGahan in Talley Student Union

Aug 20, 2019

McGahan’s Deanship Extended

NC State Provost Warwick Arden has extended the deanship of College of Sciences Dean Chris McGahan.
A historical photograph of the Hatteras Weather Bureau after a 1899 hurricane

Aug 19, 2019

Few Traces Remain From ‘Wild and Terrific’ 19th-Century Hurricanes

The first article in a new series from the North Carolina Climate Office, part of the College of Sciences, looks at some memorable historical hurricanes.

Aug 19, 2019

Audio Recordings Bolster Reef Life Science

Coastal Review Online
In a study summarized in a recent post at North Carolina Sea Grant’s Hook, Line & Science blog, researchers from North Carolina State University explored how fish use cultch reefs, or reefs created by depositing shell and other material in shellfish waters, as habitat.
NC State graduate student Mallory Kinczyk in her office on campus.

Aug 15, 2019

Space Grant Program Offers Students Cosmic Opportunity

The North Carolina Space Grant program is supporting the scientists and astronauts of tomorrow, including planetary geology Ph.D. student Mallory Kinczyk.

Aug 15, 2019

Environment Also Shaped Population Variation in First Americans, NC State Study Finds

WRAL Tech Wire
The first Americans – humans who crossed onto the North American continent and then dispersed throughout Central and South America – all share common ancestry. But as they settled different areas, the populations diverged and became distinct. A new study from North Carolina State University shows that facial differences resulting from this divergence were due to the complex interaction of environment and evolution on these populations and sheds light on how human diversification occurred after settlement of the New World.
Common craniofacial landmarks.

Aug 13, 2019

Not Just Genes: Environment Also Shaped Population Variation in First Americans

New research finds that genes and environment drove population divergence in the first Americans.

Aug 7, 2019

Scientists Link Europe Heat Wave to Man-Made Global Warming

Chicago Tribune
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2016 studied this new scientific method of climate attribution and pronounced it valid. Kathie Dello, a climate scientist from NC State University in North Carolina, said the study helps to pin the blame for the heat wave on climate change. “If searching for a culprit for the intensity of these recent European heatwaves, climate change is the obvious culprit,” Dello said in an email.