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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.

David Eggleston

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…

Jun 25, 2025

Breaking Down the Science Behind Tropical Storm Andrea

FOX Weather
The first named storm of the 2025 hurricane season, Tropical Storm Andrea, formed on Tuesday in the north Atlantic. Anantha Aiyyer, professor at North Carolina State University, explains how the storm was able to form under unusual circumstances.

Jun 19, 2025

NC-ACS Project SEED Program Students Head to Japan

C&EN
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.

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.

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.

Jun 27, 2025

Map Shows States With Highest Use of Harmful Pesticides

Newsweek
Gerald LeBlanc, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, told Newsweek: “I am not concerned that 2,4-D may cause cancer in humans. IARC has classified 2,4-D as a Group 2B carcinogen, which means that it is possibly carcinogenic to humans. In my estimation, 2,4-D might cause cancer in humans, but only at unrealistically high exposure levels.”

May 30, 2025

Unlocking Room-Temperature Superfluorescence for Advanced Quantum Technologies

AZO Quantum
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 26, 2025

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

Quanta Magazine
At first, it might seem obvious that this should work. “After all, this is how roly-poly toys work: Just put a heavy weight in the bottom,” said Dávid Papp of North Carolina State University. But “this only works with shapes that are smooth or round or both.” When it comes to polyhedra, with their sharp edges and flat faces, it’s not clear how to design something that will always flip to the same side.