Jul 11, 2014
The task was formidable — design an energy device that helps power a giant particle collider. The results could reveal more about the origins of the universe. Many veteran physicists…
Ask most undergraduates if they’re interested in factory work, and you’ll get puzzled looks. But what if the “factory” was E. coli bacteria and the “work” involved creating libraries of…
A newly discovered species of carnivorous dinosaur — one of the three largest ever discovered in North America — prevented tyrannosaurs from taking their place atop the food chain nearly…
Dr. Karen McNeal uses high-tech tools to explore how humans understand what they’re taught about earth systems. Her recent research in geocognition and geoscience education has broken new ground determining…
Ever wonder why a pitch is called a “strike” against one hitter, and a “ball” against the next? Many baseball fans have long suspected home-plate umpires of bending the rules…
Jun 5, 2014
Dr. Emilie Rissman has been named the first permanent head of NC State’s new Department of Biological Sciences. Her appointment is effective Nov. 1. Rissman comes to NC State from…
May 26, 2014
Event photo gallery The Master of Financial Mathematics program at NC State marked a major milestone this spring — its 10-year anniversary. To celebrate, about 85 administrators, alumni, current students…
Dec 23, 2013
Ever wonder why you can pour sand out of a bucket like a liquid, but a sandy seashore supports your body like a solid? Sand can hold up huge buildings…
There were the late summer floods of 2013 that devastated parts of Colorado. Seventeen inches of rain fell in just one week. There were the record Midwestern rains of 2011…
Plant species are vanishing at an alarming rate. Around the world, 9,829 different kinds of plants are endangered, a number that’s been growing since at least 1998, when the International…
