Biological Sciences
Researchers from the GenX Exposure Study detected PFAS associated with a nearby fluorochemical plant in the household dust of homes in Cumberland and Bladen counties.
Professor Scott Belcher gave a TEDx Talk on how observing alligators can help us understand the effects of exposure to elevated PFAS levels.
Chemistry
Postdoctoral scholar Alexandra Barth has been selected to participate in the Chemical Abstracts Service Future Leaders Program. Barth is among 35 early-career scientists selected from 12 different countries.
The department hosted 17 students and two teachers from Salisbury Academy as part of an outreach effort.
Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
NC State geologists backpacked through Nepal to better understand the deposits and dangers left behind by melting glaciers.
The 2025 hurricane season will have a predicted 12-15 named storms, which is in line with recent averages, according to Professor Lian Xie.
Mathematics
NC State placed in the 82nd percentile out of 477 institutions in the 2024 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate students in the U.S. and Canada.
Graduate student James Garrison placed second in the Mathematics category at NC State’s Graduate Research Symposium.
Physics
Undergraduate student Logan White received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.
Students in the “Physics of the Brain” course, run by neuroscientist Christa Baker and physicist Kasey Wagoner, used a data visualization space in D.H. Hill Library to present their group research projects. The new, interdisciplinary course uses the brain, with its electrical circuits composed of living cells, to investigate how physics shapes biology.
Statistics
Professor Ana-Maria Staicu has been named as one of this year’s American Statistical Association Fellows.
Look back on Associate Professor Charlie Smith’s six-month research and teaching engagement at Osaka University in Japan as part of a Fulbright Scholar Award.
