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NC State's Memorial Belltower

May 15, 2025

Engineering Represented Among 2025-26 Provost’s Faculty Fellows

The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and the Office for Faculty Excellence have announced the 2025-26 class of Provost’s Faculty Fellows.
Gregg Rothermel

May 13, 2025

Rothermel to Retire as Computer Science Department Head

Gregg Rothermel, Distinguished University Professor and Head of the NC State Department of Computer Science, will retire from his position on August 1, 2025.

William Enck standing in a hallway in front of a glass-paneled room.

May 8, 2025

William Enck Named Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security Sciences

William Enck has been named the Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security Sciences at North Carolina State University’s College of Engineering.

May 7, 2025

Ignacio Domínguez Wins Gertrude Cox Award

This award, named after “the First Lady of Statistics,” Gertrude Cox, honors NC State faculty who work to integrate new technologies into their instruction, creating new strategies for teaching.
A woman wearing a white lab coat peers into a microscope.

May 7, 2025

Forest Biomaterials Professor Nathalie Lavoine Wins NSF CAREER Award

Lavoine will use the five-year, nearly $750,000 grant to advance her research on cellulose nanocrystals for the creation of sustainable colors and materials for various products.
Group of faculty and staff pose for a group photo in front of a large wall of windows during an awards ceremony.

Apr 30, 2025

COE Honors Faculty and Staff at First Combined Awards Ceremony

For the first time, the College of Engineering combined its Awards for Excellence ceremony with its faculty awards, which were previously given at the annual faculty meeting.
An illustration of self-driving labs surrounding planet Earth.

Apr 24, 2025

Could Self-Driving Labs Lead to a New Era of Scientific Research?

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers is arguing the research community should make a concerted effort to capitalize on advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite work that addresses sustainable energy, emerging diseases and other global challenges. “Self-driving labs (SDLs) will serve as collaborators for human researchers, significantly reducing the time and cost required…
B. Jayant Baliga speaks after receiving the Millennium Technology Prize (Photo credit: Millennium Technology Prize/Technology Academy Finland).

Apr 24, 2025

Triangle Finnish Association To Honor Baliga

The Triangle Finnish Association (TFA) and Duke University will host a special event next week in honor of B. Jayant Baliga, the Progress Energy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State.  Baliga earned Finland’s 2024 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention, development and commercialization of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), an energy-saving semiconductor…
Jason Franz, left, sits in front of multiple computer screens in a dark room.

Apr 21, 2025

Engineering Better Health

The mission of Jason Franz’s lab is to engineer solutions to help people age gracefully. “We want our discoveries to help older members of our community,” he said.