2019

Nov 11, 2019

Sciences Alumni and Friends Honored by Black Alumni Society

Eleven alumni and friends of the college were honored during Red and White Week as 2019 winners of NC State's Black Alumni Society 40 for 40 Awards.

Nov 6, 2019

From Grief to Hope

After statistics and analytics alumnus Steven Somers' untimely death, his family honored his memory by creating an endowment to support NC State's Counseling Center.

Nov 6, 2019

Adventures Abroad

Physics Ph.D. student Sanjana Curtis chronicles her five weeks of research and learning in Europe.

Nov 5, 2019

Ready to Put Science to Work

Research and other opportunities at NC State have helped Daniela Fontecha, a double major in physics and chemistry, discover a passion for using science to improve the environment.

Nov 5, 2019

Research in Photos: Senior Kenzie Cromer Wins 2019 Envisioning Research Contest

Learn about the biology student's prize-winning photography and why scientific outreach is important to her.

Nov 4, 2019

Jim Goodnight, the ‘Godfather of A.I.,’ Predicts the Future Fate of the US Workforce

CNBC
“At first we were using analytics software and doing balanced experiments. Today we have moved into forecasting,” says Jim Goodnight, a previous statistics professor at NC State 45 years ago. “Neural networks, which mimic the way the human brain operates, and other machine learning tools are being used to do all sorts of predictions in a host of industries.”

Nov 1, 2019

Immersive Collaboration on Data Science for Intelligence Analysis

Harvard Data Science Review
“We’re focused on intelligence analysis.” says principal investigator of the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, Alyson Wilson from North Carolina State University. “At LAS, we’re trying to improve intelligence analysis by breaking down some of the barriers between the intelligence community and innovators at universities and companies.”

Nov 1, 2019

Scientists Are Baffled: What’s Up With the Universe?

Washington Post
Astrophysicist Katherine Mack of North Carolina State University featured in article examining inconsistency of the Hubble constant. “Any time there’s a discrepancy, some kind of anomaly, we all get very excited,” Mack says. She also co-wrote a recent paper examining the issue.

Oct 30, 2019

Rise of the Mammals

NOVA
Paleontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University featured in NOVA video, Rise of the Mammals. Zanno discusses how fossils reveal how mammals took over after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Oct 29, 2019

Opportunities Adding Up

NC State senior Yussef Guerrab hopes to blend interests in math, statistics, education and public policy into a career helping others.