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Mar 22, 2023

Marine Community Ecologist Zhang Awarded $1.22 Million Grant to Develop Restoration Strategies

Assistant Professor Stacy Zhang will lead a project to restore biodiversity in three coastal ecosystems.

Mar 17, 2023

Forensics Sheds Light on Infant and Child Remains

Technology Networks
"Our work here is a significant contribution that will help the medical legal community bring some closure to these young people and, hopefully, a measure of justice," said Ann Ross, co-author of the study and a professor of biological sciences at NC State.

Mar 17, 2023

Forensics Study Clarifies How Bones of Children Decay

Futurity
“Crimes against children are truly awful, and all too common,” says Ann Ross, co-author of the study and a professor of biological sciences at NC State. “It is important to be able to identify their remains and, when possible, understand what happened to them."

Mar 16, 2023

Forensic Study Sheds Light on the Remains of Infants, Children

Phys.org
"There is not much research on how the bones of infants and children break down over time. Our work here is a significant contribution that will help the medical legal community bring some closure to these young people and, hopefully, a measure of justice," said Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences.

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.

Mar 15, 2023

What to Know About ‘Forever Chemicals’ and Your Health

Wall Street Journal
The U.S. lacks comprehensive national testing of PFAS in blood, which makes it difficult to know who is most exposed, according to Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist at NC State.

Mar 15, 2023

How To Reduce PFAS in Your Drinking Water, According to Experts

CNN
“Some of these chemicals have half-lives in the range of five years,” National Academies committee member Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist and director of the Center for Human Health and the Environment at NC State University, told CNN.

Mar 14, 2023

Residents’ Frustration Grows at Slow Progress To Address PFAS Pollution in Their Water

North Carolina Health News
In 2017-18, NC State researchers launched a PFAS exposure study in which they collected and analyzed 344 blood samples collected from Wilmington residents.

Mar 9, 2023

Intact Dinosaur Veins Were Running With Blood 80 Million Years Ago

IFL Science
“Part of the value of this research is that it gives us insight into how proteins can modify and change over 80 million years," added Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist and professor at NC State.

Mar 3, 2023

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