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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.
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Sep 23, 2022

Crook Lab joins NSF “PreMiEr” team

In an effort to better understand and improve the health of our built environments, an interdisciplinary team of researchers will develop diagnostic tools and engineering approaches to help reduce the number of harmful environmental microbes while encouraging beneficial ones. This work is at the forefront of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr).
Researchers in full coverage lab gear work on nanofabrication.

Aug 17, 2022

NC State and Purdue researchers receive funding for semiconductor center proposal

A proposed research center based at NC State and Purdue would help integrate new materials into the electronic industry, meeting a critical need in the United States for advanced, domestically produced semiconductor devices.   
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Aug 11, 2022

NC State to research implications of engineered microbiomes with new NSF center grant

NC State is part of a $26 million National Science Foundation center researching microbiome engineering.

Aug 4, 2022

NC State to lead multi-institution software supply chain security grant from NSF

NC State is the lead institution for a National Science Foundation grant to research technical challenges in software supply chain security.
Postdoctoral researcher Lisa Van den Broeck, left, evaluates 3D bioprinted plant cells before STEPS Center director Jacob Jones, right, examines them.

Jun 7, 2022

STEPS Center tackles full scope of phosphorus sustainability

Headquartered at NC State, the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability Center is discovering and developing ways to recycle phosphorus, make our food system more efficient, and protect the environment from waste.
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May 20, 2022

NSF RAPID grants support engineering research on pandemic for better future solutions

Faculty members in the College of Engineering are principal investigators (PIs) or co-PIs on three Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants awarded in 2020 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on hospital surges, vaccine distribution and the well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.