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two translucent, tear-drop-shaped loops with a small silver V at the pointy end lie in the grass, while a third loop hovers in the air as if captured in the middle of a jump

Aug 28, 2026

Light-Powered Soft Robots Can Keep Jumping Forever

The soft robots leap upward or forward when exposed to infrared light – and will keep jumping as long as the light is present.
tank being loaded onto transport ship

Aug 28, 2026

Cracking the Packing Code – New Models Incorporate Item Priority, Location and Weight Distribution

New packing models optimize spatial usage while including item priority, location and weight distribution.
a robot wearing a safety suit walking through a chicken coop

Aug 27, 2026

From Code to Coop

From egg-collecting robots to intelligent systems that assess the health of individual birds, Ramesh Bist and his Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Lab are cracking into AI to develop innovative tools that help poultry producers better manage their flocks.
an aerial view of a hog farm with surrounding fields and hog lagoon

Aug 27, 2026

Excrement Enterprise

For farms with a waste-not, want-not approach, animal feces offer untapped potential. The new Food Animal Resource Management and Sustainability Center works to harness this digestion by-product to help create self-sustaining farm systems.
The copper wolves at Wolf Plaza near Talley student union.

Aug 26, 2026

Get to Know Our Newest COE Students

From studying abroad to studying under some of the best faculty in the country, the newest undergraduate students at NC State’s College of Engineering are ready to engineer their futures. 
Plant Sciences Building operations manager Geoff Bock next to the "Moon Tree."

Aug 25, 2026

A Moon Tree Named ‘Christina’

One of NC State’s newest trees, a 6-foot-tall loblolly pine on Centennial Campus, is the descendant of an original 1971 Moon Tree, whose seed flew on Apollo 14. It’s named for NASA astronaut and three-time graduate Christina Koch.
Christina Koch at NC State.

Aug 25, 2026

A New Name at Home

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to the campus where she earned three degrees, welcomed by a cheering crowd, a renamed building with her name on it and a limited-edition taste of her own Howling Cow ice cream.
Christina Koch in front of the newly named Koch Hall on Centennial Campus.

Aug 25, 2026

A New Addition to Campus Landmarks Named After Women

NC State’s newest building to honor a woman is one of many such landmarks on and off campus, a tradition that goes all the way back to the school’s first female employee in 1889.
NC State's Memorial Belltower stands in front of a clear summer sky.

Aug 24, 2026

NC State Joins $160M NSF Initiative to Advance Biobased Manufacturing

A team of researchers from the Department of Forest Biomaterials will assess the affordability and sustainability of biobased products developed through the initiative.