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Dec 11, 2015

Ph.D. Student Project Evolves Into New Tool for the Biotech Industry

When Scott Vu started working on a computer science research project as a teenager, he didn’t realize it would lead him down a path to earning a Ph.D. and launching a company to help the biotechnology industry. 
Amanda Walter in the lab

Nov 30, 2015

Amanda Walter Explains Benefits of Biosimilar Drugs

Graduate student Amanda Walter, who works in the pharmaceutical industry, explains the complex idea of biosimilar drugs to policy and lawmakers. 
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Nov 11, 2015

Psychologist Expands Postpartum Adjustment Work to Community

Ph.D. student Betty-Shannon Prevatt is looking into ways of supporting new moms suffering with postpartum depression. 
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Nov 5, 2015

Graduate Alumnus is Co-Lead on Paper About Bees in Urban Areas

A former entomology graduate student is co-lead on a research paper about the health of bees in urban areas. 
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Oct 29, 2015

Engineering Students Sweep NC State’s First 3 Minute Thesis

Engineering students took all three prizes Oct. 28 in the first-ever 3 Minute Thesis competition at NC State University. The international competition challenges students to describe their dissertation research in 3 minutes, using just one slide. 

Oct 28, 2015

Principal of the Year Works to Complete Doctorate at NC State

North Carolina's Principal of the Year Steve Lassiter describes his passion for teacher development, reading education and his NC State doctoral program in education leadership. 

Oct 12, 2015

Be Aware of Chemicals in Personal Products

Is your nail polish safe? What about other items in your cosmetics drawer? If in doubt, read labels more closely. 
Charisse looks into microscope

Oct 12, 2015

Student Investigates: Are Chemicals Making You Fat?

Graduate student Charisse Holmes studies adverse health triggers that can occur in ubiquitous consumer products. 
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Sep 29, 2015

How Former Problem Drinkers Navigate Social Drinking Situations

A small, qualitative study published in the journal Health Communication highlights a wide variety of approaches that former problem drinkers take to determine how and whether to tell people in social situations that they don’t drink. 
Doug with model of his face

Sep 28, 2015

Student’s Model Predicts a Better Environmental Future

Douglas Shoemaker shares his ecological perspectives while working at NC State’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. Using what he calls “an ecosystem services lens” he explores and quantifies linkages between human and environmental systems, analyzing resource and sustainability concerns.