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Jun 22, 2020

Character, Service and Leadership: Alumni Physicians’ Experiences During the Pandemic

Biological sciences alumna Tracy Forrest, a North Carolina physician, shares her experiences in the medical field during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jun 22, 2020

Teaching Physics to Neural Networks Removes ‘Chaos Blindness’

Teaching physics to neural networks helps them adapt to chaos.

Jun 16, 2020

New N.C. Climate Change Report Says the Time to Act Is Now

North Carolina Health News
Researchers at N.C. State University predict a high number of named storms this hurricane season — between 18 and 22 — with the possibility that three to five of them will become major hurricanes.

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Jun 16, 2020

Alum Tyler Allen Reflects on His Time With Multicultural Student Affairs

Biology alumnus Tyler Allen reflects on his campus experience with Multicultural Student Affairs.

Jun 15, 2020

Placentas May Help Fish Outswim Predators

Hakai Magazine
“These findings strongly implicate selection on swimming abilities as [a] key culprit behind the evolution of placentation,” says Brian Langerhans, a marine ecologist at North Carolina State University, who wasn’t involved with the study.
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Jun 9, 2020

Podcast: The Sun

Astrophysicist Steve Reynolds gives us the lowdown on the solar minimum, space weather and other cool facts about our favorite star, the Sun.

Jun 9, 2020

Lockdowns May Have Averted 531 Million Coronavirus Infections

Science News
The new findings suggest that “these control measures have worked,” says Alun Lloyd, a mathematical epidemiologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in either study. Lockdowns “have saved or delayed many infections and deaths.”

Jun 8, 2020

Special Report: Three Years of GenX, PFAS and Chemours

WUNC
Exposure testing of residents of the Cape Fear Region, and near the plant in Fayetteville, is continuing through NC State University. Dr. Jane Hoppin is leading two exposure testing efforts from her post at NC State.
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Jun 8, 2020

From the Departments

Catch up on the latest news from our academic departments.

Jun 2, 2020

Blood Plasma Analysis Could Spot Signs of ALS

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“Early diagnosis is important, but we are in dire need of quantitative markers for monitoring progression and the efficacy of therapeutic intervention,” says Michael Bereman, associate professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the paper on the work in the Journal of Proteome Research.