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Emily Griffith with DSS Associate Head Shannon Ricci and DSS Head Mara Blake at a teaching symposium.

Jun 3, 2025

Emily Griffith Receives the 2025 Libraries Faculty Award

Griffith is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Statistics and the director of consulting for the Data Science and AI Academy.

May 22, 2025

GOHA Faculty Spotlight – David Eggleston

In 2024, the Global One Health Academy offered Faculty Travel Awards to support faculty in domestic or international travel advancing global One Health-related research or education efforts. David Eggleston (COS), was a recipient…

White flowers bloom on a tree in front of the Bell Tower

May 13, 2025

Applications Sought for NC State-Nagoya University Seed Grants

This program is designed to catalyze new research collaborations. The application deadline is June 20, 2025.

Jun 19, 2025

NC-ACS Project SEED Program Students Head to Japan

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High school student Lizbeth Luna-Lopez, who worked in the lab of Caroline Proulx, an associate professor of chemistry at NC State, will present her research project at Nagoya University in Japan.

May 30, 2025

Unlocking Room-Temperature Superfluorescence for Advanced Quantum Technologies

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In a recent study published in Nature, the international research team at North Carolina State University details both the underlying process and the specific material requirements for achieving superfluorescence at room temperature. This research could provide a guide for creating materials that exhibit unusual quantum states – like superconductivity, superfluidity, or superfluorescence at higher temperatures.

May 29, 2025

Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials

Science Daily
“In this work, we show both experimental and theoretical reasons behind macroscopic quantum coherence at high temperature,” says Kenan Gundogdu, professor of physics at NC State and corresponding author of the study. “In other words, we can finally explain how and why some materials will work better than others in applications that require exotic quantum states at ambient temperatures.”

Jun 17, 2025

Floods Are Worsening but Engineers Worry National Rainfall Database Won’t Be Updated

The only member of the Atlas 15 team to provide comments was lead scientist Ken Kunkel, a principal research scholar at North Carolina State University’s Institute for Climate Studies. He has studied heavy precipitation for more than 30 years and hopes that completion of Atlas 15, volumes 1 and 2 will be the capstone of his career.

May 21, 2025

Millions in the U.S. May Rely on PFAS-contaminated Drinking Water

Environmental Health News
“In general, private homeowners with their own private drinking water wells are responsible for that testing and cost,” David Genereux, a hydrogeologist at North Carolina State University who studies how water and chemicals move through the environment, told EHN. Genereux was not involved in the study. PFAS, he explained, can persist in groundwater sites for decades or even centuries, creating long-term challenges for affected communities.

May 19, 2025

North Carolina Residents Condemn EPA’s PFAS Regulation Delay

NC Health News
“Overall, PFOA and PFOS are chemicals of the past, though they are still present in drinking water sources. So removing them will get a lot of others,” said NC State University epidemiologist Jane Hoppin in an email. “But the other four are chemicals of the future, particularly GenX, so removing these rules would not be forward-looking.”

Jun 4, 2025

Advocates Protest Pesticide Measures in N.C. Senate Bill, Point to Potential Health Effects

North Carolina Health News
While there is premarket testing on pesticides, there’s no testing on people, said Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist at NC State University. Most people don’t know what’s in the pesticide they use, such as ant poison, which makes studying health effects difficult, she said.