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Summer Internship Spotlight: Muhammad Ikbal Putera, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

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Uchenna Osia

Oct 31, 2025

Uchenna Osia Shares Insights from Her Academic Journey

Uchenna Osia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center of Geospatial Analytics. She is a GEM Full Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellow.
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Oct 27, 2025

Sivana Hamer Receives Google PhD Fellowship

Sivana Hamer, a third-year Ph.D. student in computer science received a . She is the first NC State University student to receive this fellowship.
Student in a corn field holding two corn cobs.

Oct 10, 2025

Unlocking Heirloom Corn’s Untapped Potential

To protect the future of America’s biggest crop, NC State researchers are cataloging traits in almost a thousand types of corn that were nearly lost to history.
two people work on a marshy coastal shoreline with equipment

Oct 9, 2025

Protecting North Carolina Coastlines with Natural Solutions

Sam Holberg, a doctoral student in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, hopes to find a way to leverage oyster farms as a nature-based solution to halt erosion along the coast.
Man on a stage presenting a talk about plant protection.

Oct 9, 2025

Seed2Grow Spotlight: Verdia Diagnostics’ Zach Hetzler

A recent NC State Ph.D. graduate, Zach Hetzler leads a university startup company out to improve the way farmers detect and diagnose plant diseases.
Reid Barnett

Oct 9, 2025

Ceretune: Reid Barnett’s Path to Greener Waters through Innovation at NC State

At NC State, innovation and entrepreneurship are not just buzzwords—they define how our students, faculty and alumni tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. A perfect example is Reid Barnett, Ph.D. candidate in fiber & polymer science at the Wilson College of Textiles, whose startup, Ceretune LLC, is setting new standards in sustainable environmental engineering.
Carley Huffstetler

Oct 6, 2025

Meet Carley Huffstetler

I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Genetics and Genomics program at NC State. I work in Nanette Nascone-Yoder’s lab at the College of Veterinary Medicine, where we study left-right asymmetry, a highly conserved and fundamental feature of our internal anatomy. We use Xenopus laevis frog embryos to study how left-right asymmetry develops in the individual organs of the digestive tract.
Gwen Kirschke

Sep 29, 2025

Pollinator Research Takes to the Skies with NASA Grant

At the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Crested Butte, Colorado, Gwen Kirschke, a doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D. in geospatial analytics at NC State University, is pairing traditional boots-on-the-ground pollinator monitoring methods with aerial imagery captured by the U.S National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Observation Platform.
a man sits at a desk looking at a computer screen

Sep 12, 2025

From Computer Science to Crop Science

At 70 years old, Steve Amerige is working toward a doctoral degree in crop science using skills from his long career in software programming to develop new tools for precision agriculture.
Summer Internship Spotlight

Aug 19, 2025

Summer Internship Spotlight: Muhammad Ikbal Putera, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

Putera, a second-year Ph.D. candidate studying parks, recreation and tourism management, recently completed a two-month placement in the Interpretation and Education Division at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.