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Spring 2024 Carla Savage Award winners announced

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A portrait photograph of Nathan Crook taken in front of shelves with lab equipment.

Mar 29, 2024

Tiny organisms, transformative outcomes

Nathan Crook, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is discovering how Earth’s simplest life forms might unlock solutions to complex problems like antibiotic-resistant infections, plastic pollution and climate change. 
Bryan Ormond

Mar 28, 2024

Ormond wins 2024 Distinguished Young Alumni Award

In honor of his professional achievements, life-changing research and alignment with the college’s core values, Bryan Ormond was named a recipient of the Wilson College of Textiles 2024 Distinguished Young Alumni Award. 
Image shows logo for SID, the Society for Information Display. The logo is white and blue and is surrounded by a background of multi-color repeating vertical rectangles in red, blue and black.

Mar 27, 2024

Franky So receives 2024 Jan Rajchman Prize

The U.S. Society for Information Display (SID) annually awards the Jan Rajchman Prize for outstanding scientific or technical achievement or pioneering research contributions to electronic display technology. Since 1993, the $5,000 prize has been presented by the SID Board of Directors on the recommendation of the Honors and Awards Committee. 

Mar 26, 2024

ODEI hosts first Engineering Histories event

As part of its first-ever Engineering Histories series, the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) presented Trailblazers, an exhibition of Black and African American students, staff, faculty and alumni who shaped the College of Engineering. 
NC State gateway at sunset

Mar 26, 2024

Palmtag wins NC State Outstanding Teacher Award

The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching is the most prestigious award for exceptional teaching given to professional full-time faculty from among NC State’s 10 colleges and the University College. The award was established in 2021 to underscore the importance of teaching and to encourage, identify, recognize, reward, and support teaching within the university. 
Rows of crops on a farm

Mar 26, 2024

New software boosts accuracy of tech to measure crop health

A new tool improves the accuracy of electronic devices that measure the color of a plant’s leaves to assess health. 
Five beverage cans lined up in a row showing the different colors (aqua, blue, red, orange and green), labels and flavors for Angry Angel energy drinks.

Mar 26, 2024

Angry Angel provides a healthier alternative to traditional energy drinks

Answering the Demand for a Healthy Alternative Justin Lloyd graduated from NC State with a degree in biological engineering and is now the founder and CEO of Angry Angel. Angry Angel… 
Adolfo Escobedo wearing glasses and white shirt with a light blue grid design in front of a red background showing enlarged molecular structures.

Mar 25, 2024

CAREER Award honors Escobedo’s optimization breakthroughs

ISE associate professor Adolfo Escobedo has been honored with the prestigious CAREER grant for his groundbreaking work in the foundations of mathematical programming, a systematic approach using mathematical models and algorithms for optimal decision-making. 
Color photo of howling wolf metal scuplture.

Mar 25, 2024

Spring 2024 Carla Savage Award winners announced

Named after the incomparable department icon Dr. Carla Savage, The Carla Savage Awards are an intra-departmental initiative to recognize outstanding achievement and special people within the department.