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A Refrigeration Revolution — Advanced on Centennial Campus
Posted on September 13, 2019 | Filed Under: News
An innovative partnership with NC State helped startup Phononic disrupt the refrigeration industry.
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Meet the first-year class for 2019
Posted on September 11, 2019 | Filed Under: Campus Life
Tipping enrollment over 36,000 for the first time ever, NC State’s newest class has landed on campus.
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Astronaut and Alumna to Hold Live Video Q&A From Space
Posted on August 23, 2019 | Filed Under: News
Christina Koch will talk with students through a live video downlink on Friday, Aug. 30. Catch all the action at Talley Student Union.
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Aydin Aysu Receives NSF CRII Award
Posted on August 22, 2019 | Filed Under: Awards
Dr. Aydin Aysu receives the National Science Foundation CISE Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII).
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Guvenc named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
Posted on August 17, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Dr. Ismail Guvenc has been elected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors for producing technologies that have brought real impact on society.
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Room Check: Senior Design Success
Posted on August 6, 2019 | Filed Under: Smart and Undergrad Students
Working with NC State’s OIT, a team of undergraduate students in Senior Design put together an innovative solution to check high-tech teaching tools in over 150 classrooms across campus.
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Dr. Ismail Guvenc Receives the R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award
Posted on August 1, 2019 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty
Dr. Ismail Guvenc has been selected to receive the inaugural R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award
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NC State Moves Up to #9 Globally for Electrical Engineering
Posted on July 31, 2019 | Filed Under: News
For the second year in a row, NC State ranks in the top 10 globally for electrical engineering—moving up to #9 in the 2019 ShanghaiRankings
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Best Laboratory Collaboration Awarded to NC State Ph.D. Student
Posted on July 30, 2019 | Filed Under: Awards
The best lab collaboration was awarded to Sally Ghanem with VISSTA Lab.
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Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Helps Turn ECE Research into Real-World Solution
Posted on July 23, 2019 | Filed Under: Research
Ph.D. student Pedro Vergara and professor Leda Lunardi have developed tech that creates sharper, more vibrant screen displays that also use less power and received support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund
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Christina Koch is headed to the moon, exactly like she dreamed she would
In 2025, she will be one of four astronauts who will head to the moon as a part of Artemis II. The North Carolina State University graduate stopped by the WUNC studio during a recent visit back to the Tar Heel State.
Posted on May 9, 2024
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Injectable Microchip Tracks Animal Health
Around the world, many pets and working animals are microchipped. It’s a simple process: A tiny transponder with an identification number is enclosed in a rice-grain-sized cylinder and injected under the skin, so that if an animal is lost it can be identified. This new devices does more, including tracking and reporting heart rate, breathing, movement, and temperature sensing in a 4-mm-wide package.
Posted on March 12, 2024
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NC State innovation on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas
Posted on January 11, 2024
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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration
In a forthcoming paper to be published in IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics(TAFE), James Reynolds, a postdoctoral research scholar at NC State’s iBionicS Lab and first author of the paper, and fellow researchers at North Carolina State University explored how plant tissue’s impeding of electrical current can be monitored to identify plants under stress with relative immediacy—less than an hour, in some cases.
Posted on December 11, 2023
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‘We’re hitting new limits.’ NC quantum computing bullish on a coveted breakthrough
Superconductors, the other prominent approach to quantum computing, are the focus of North Carolina State University and its partner corporation, IBM. Nicknamed “chandeliers,” IBM’s machines are gold-plated, multi-level apparatuses with a progression of wires and tubes funneling down to single silicon processor chips. While Duke has ion-trap computers in the Triangle, NC State researchers remotely access the chandeliers, which are housed at the IBM facility in Yorktown Heights, New York. “Each technology kind of has its strength,” said Daniel Stancil, executive director of the IBM Quantum Hub at NC State. “I think there have been some significant developments in the hardware in the past year.”
Posted on December 4, 2023
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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up
Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers.
Posted on November 1, 2023