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Climate Impacts Are Increasing; Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace

Faculty and Staff

Dali Sun

Apr 5, 2023

Department of Defense Awards Physicist Sun $7.5 Million MURI Grant

Dali Sun, associate professor of physics, will lead a study on quantum spin effects in chiral matter. 
aerial view of NC State campus

Mar 22, 2023

Biologist Bobay, Biophysicist Lin to Join NC State’s Bioinformatics Faculty Cluster

Biologist Louis-Marie Bobay and biophysicist Xingcheng Lin will join NC State in August 2023 as members of the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program’s Bioinformatics cluster and as assistant professors in the College of Sciences. 
Dick Patty teaching a class in Riddick Hall in 2008

Mar 16, 2023

In Memoriam: Richard Patty

Dick Patty, who served as the head of the Department of Physics, has died at the age of 89. 
close image of police tape stretched in front of a section of green space

Mar 16, 2023

Forensic Study Sheds Light on the Remains of Infants, Children

Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences, took part in a study that sheds light on how the bones of infants and juveniles decay. 
Biological sciences student Shilpa Giri smiles in front of a wall covered in issues of Technician

Mar 3, 2023

From the Departments

Catch up on the latest news from our academic departments. 
image of the belltower lit red

Jan 31, 2023

Statistician Hughes-Oliver Named AAAS Fellow

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, professor of statistics, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Forrest Hentz at the blackboard in an archival, black-and-white photo.

Jan 12, 2023

Hentz Made Chemistry Make Sense

Longtime chemistry professor Forrest C. Hentz has died at the age of 89 (the atomic number of actinium). 
Garrett Briggs poses with a colleague

Jan 12, 2023

Former PAMS Dean Passes Away at 88

Garrett Briggs, the second dean of the former College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, which became the College of Sciences in 2013, passed away on Dec. 31, 2022. 
Globorataloides hexagonus shell recovered from a deep-sea sediment core in the tropical Pacific ocean

Jan 4, 2023

Map of Ancient Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ Could Predict Future Locations, Impacts

Catherine Davis, assistant professor of MEAS, and her colleagues created a map of ancient oceanic "dead zones" that could help us plan for the future as the Earth grows warmer. 
NC State gateway at sunset

Dec 22, 2022

Climate Impacts Are Increasing; Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace

Biology textbooks are failing to share adequate information about climate change.