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Cancer-Driving Genetic Mutation Does Not Always Cause Disease

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Jul 17, 2026

Backyard Mosquito Sprays May Be Fueling Insecticide Resistance

The choices people make to control mosquitoes in their own backyards may be helping some of those mosquitoes survive the very insecticides meant to kill them.

Jul 16, 2026

Before She Took Historic Moon Photos, Christina Koch Honed Her Skills in N.C.

The Assembly
Koch attended NC State from 1997 to 2002 and earned undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering, as well as a master’s degree in the latter. That’s a combination of disciplines that one of Koch’s physics professors described to The Assembly as one of the most difficult at the university, but her studies apparently didn’t prevent her from staying busy outside the classroom.

Jul 9, 2026

Rescuers Help Return Rehabilitated Sea Turtle to the Atlantic

Public Radio East
North Carolina State University Ph.D. candidate Lindsay Curl first spotted the distressed turtle back in April while conducting fieldwork near Harkers Island. Alongside fellow researchers and technicians from the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, Curl rescued the animal and brought it to their facility.
Maggie Curry Ellis

Jul 8, 2026

Geologist Maggie Ellis Curry Wins Prestigious NSF Award

Curry’s award for early-career faculty will support tectonics and critical minerals research as well as outreach efforts.
Black and white photo of students leaving Withers Hall circa 1950-1959

Jul 7, 2026

William A. Withers Endowment: Shaping Chemistry’s Next Generation

Alumna Mary W. Richardson’s planned gift honored her father William A. Withers’ work in the Department of Chemistry. Years later, their legacy is still shaping the next generation of scientists.
Representatives from University Human Resources, the College of Sciences Human Resources and the Biological Resources Facility stand together in the lobby of the Biological Resources Facility.

Jul 7, 2026

Supporting Science: Human Resources Collaboration and Partnership

The University Human Resources Classification and Compensation unit and College of Sciences Human Resources came together with the goal of better supporting the campus community.

Jun 29, 2026

This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than We Can Blink — Here’s How

Phys.org
“The difference between what Spirostomum can do and what we can do comes down to what is powering the contraction, and what the machinery behind it looks like,” says Mary Elting, associate professor of biophysics at North Carolina State University. “If we can understand those processes, it could help us build synthetic systems that mimic the speed and power of this single-celled organism.”

Jun 26, 2026

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Obsessed With Toxins?

Vox
For each of us as individuals, Gerald LeBlanc, a biologist at North Carolina State University and author of Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks, emphasized that there is a difference between a substance being hazardous (meaning it could potentially cause harmful health effects) and it actually doing harm. The distinction is in how much of said substance you’re actually exposed to.
Spirostomum ambiguum

Jun 26, 2026

This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than We Can Blink. Here’s How.

A tiny, single-celled organism’s superfast contraction could lead to faster artificial muscles.

Jun 19, 2026

Cancer-Driving Genetic Mutation Does Not Always Cause Disease

The Medical News
“We were fortunate to have access to a population study that allowed us to look at the occurrence of this mutation in the general public,” says Jordan Snyder, assistant teaching professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the study.