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Miriam Antelis

Mar 5, 2024

April’s Total Solar Eclipse Will Bring a Surreal Silence and Confuse All Sorts of Animals

USA Today
“I thought it was going to be nonsense, I didn’t think animals were going to be affected at all,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, a professor of comparative anatomy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. “Clouds pass over and they don’t react. It was so ephemeral.”

Ben Hines

Mar 4, 2024

An Organic Partnership

NC State's Organic and Carbon Electronics faculty cluster is providing hands-on research opportunities for Wake Technical Community College students.

Feb 29, 2024

Are You Putting PFAS on Your Armpits?

The PFAS Project
Scott Belcher, associate professor with the Center for Environmental & Health Effects of PFAS at North Carolina State University, told Mamavation that testing for organic fluorine is a good ‘spot-check’ of products for evidence of PFAS because testing for individual PFAS compounds would miss some of other common forms of the chemicals.

University of Pennsylvania mathematician Robert Ghrist speaks at the 2024 Kwangil Koh Lecture.

Feb 29, 2024

From the Departments

Catch up on the latest news from our academic departments.

Scum-forming bloom of toxic cyanobacteria Microcystis in North Carolina coastal waters

Feb 28, 2024

NC State Receives $6.9 Million From NSF, NIEHS to Fund New Oceans and Human Health Center

The grant will help establish the North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment.

Feb 1, 2024

A Winter Storm Brought Record Snowfall to Raleigh 24 Years Ago

Spectrum News
North Carolina State University meteorology professor Gary Lackmann told us, “I remember we were looking at some of the maps, the satellite and the radar and thinking we could get two or three or four or five inches of snow.” It was significant, to say the least. The official storm total from the Raleigh-Durham Airport was 20.3 inches.

Jan 30, 2024

A Scientific ‘Forced Marriage’ Takes on the Mysteries of the Current Loop

Issues in Science and Technology
Ruoying He, a physical oceanographer at NC State, will assimilate the resulting data into a regional ocean model to be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jan 23, 2024

Exposure Study Evolves to Measure PFAS’ Long-term Effects

Coastal Review
“We’ve been measuring cholesterol and thyroid and comprehensive metabolic panels and height and weight and (body mass index) and so we can now look at how things change over time,” said Jane Hoppin, principal investigator of the GenX Exposure Study and professor at North Carolina State University.

Jan 23, 2024

NC State Program Aims to Build Belonging, Increase Diversity in Marine Sciences While Aiding Oyster Sanctuaries

WFAE
Rebecca Ruiz, a graduate student in NC State's Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was recruited as part of a new oyster restoration program.

Jan 19, 2024

Could Floating Plant Islands Help Remove PFAS From Waterways in the Cape Fear Basin?

NC Health News
In 2017, a team of researchers headed by N.C. State University epidemiologist Jane Hoppin launched the GenX Exposure Study, which revealed that some people in the Cape Fear River Basin have PFAS in their blood.