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Alumna Christina Koch to Orbit the Moon on Artemis II
Posted on April 3, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
Christina Koch (BS EE ’01; MS EE ’02) named to NASA’s Artemis II crew, venturing around the Moon on a 10-day mission
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NC State Announces 2022-23 Goodnight Early Career Innovators
Posted on March 29, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty
NC State announced its 2022-23 class of Goodnight Early Career Innovators today. This program recognizes and rewards promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. The 25 faculty selected will receiv …
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New Initiative Aims to Put NC State at the Forefront of Viral Vector Manufacturing
Posted on March 8, 2023 | Filed Under: Research
An initiative launched by NC State University professors Stefano Menegatti and Michael Daniele brings together broad, multidisciplinary expertise from universities and industry partners across the Triangle — and will offer hands-on training …
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Blog: My Internship at Robinhood
Posted on March 7, 2023 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Junior in electrical engineering, Matt Murray, shares his experience as an intern at Robinhood.
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Marshall Brain recognized with the John S. Risley Entrepreneur of the Year award
Posted on February 22, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty
The chancellor celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship at “The Point” where Marshall Brain received the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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Sanskriti Deva Takes an International Stage
Posted on February 16, 2023 | Filed Under: News and Quantum and Undergrad Students
Sanskriti Deva, an inspiring junior in computer engineering, is stepping up to the global stage this week at the United Nations Association Global Engagement Summit and Harvard’s WECode Conference.
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Providing FREEDM Through a Better Power Grid
Posted on February 8, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty
Iqbal Husain, director of NC State’s FREEDM Systems Center and a distinguished professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is on a mission to make the world cleaner, greener and easier to travel in.
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_pace, the Final Frontier
Posted on February 7, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
In a triumphant return to Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, astronaut Christina Koch spells out how even a simple game of Scrabble can take an unexpected turn when you’re floating in zero gravity.
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Department Head Stancil to step down, remain on faculty
Posted on February 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty
Serving as 9th department head for ECE at NC State, Dan Stancil is returning to faculty at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, and Veena Misra will serve as Interim Head.
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Bhattacharya receives two first-place paper awards at ECCE 2022
Posted on February 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty
Subhashish Bhattacharya received two first-place paper awards at the ECCE 2022 conference from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS).
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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