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10 years of wearable device breakthroughs

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Aug 21, 2024

NC State partners in new National Science Foundation center dedicated to domestic rubber production

The new center is entitled ERC: Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security or (TARDISS) and is led by Ohio State University.  The activities in NC State CBE will be led by Research Professor Greg McKenna, principal investigator (PI), and co-PIs Sindee Simon, department head and Distinguished Professor, and Saad Khan, INVISTA Professor. 

Aug 21, 2024

Researchers will build an international network of networks, S2S-AccelNet, to strengthen forecast applications and services

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), Texas A&M University (TAMU) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to build an international network of networks (NON) to bolster forecasting that helps protect infrastructure and natural resources in a rapidly changing world. 
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May 28, 2024

Wei, partners host meeting on volatile organic compounds sensors research

Qingshan Wei, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, is the principal investigator for a Phase I Convergence Accelerator Track L award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). 
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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. 
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Mar 18, 2024

NC State partners on NSF-funded “Ag Tech Corridor” project

A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is kickstarting an effort to create an agricultural technology corridor from central to eastern North Carolina, and NC State University plays a key role. 
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Jul 6, 2023

Is our phosphorus use sustainable? Most stakeholders doubt it

The study underscores the complex challenges facing efforts to ensure our continued access to a critical agricultural and industry resource. 
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May 10, 2023

NC State partners on new Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, this institute aims to advance foundational AI by incorporating knowledge from agriculture and forestry sciences and leveraging these unique, new AI methods to curb climate effects while lifting rural economies. By creating a new scientific discipline and innovation ecosystem intersecting AI and climate-smart agriculture and forestry, AI-CLIMATE researchers and practitioners will discover and invent compelling AI-powered knowledge and solutions. 
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Apr 17, 2023

Researchers help AI express uncertainty to improve health monitoring tech

The new approach is used in a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing. 
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Dec 7, 2022

10 years of wearable device breakthroughs

Ten years since its founding, the Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) Center led by NC State has made groundbreaking advances in wearable health monitoring devices.