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A Parasitic Haunting: When Snakes are Eaten From Within

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May 30, 2024

NC State Graduate Student Bianca Jimenez Wins NSF Fellowship To Support Her Bee Research

Bianca Jimenez, an NC State graduate student in applied ecology, will use a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study a parasite in bee species. The prestigious NSF Graduate… 
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May 10, 2024

Full Circle: Undergraduate Student Returns to Youth Science Program that Sparked Career Path

Maya Hardison can list kayaking as one of her many professional skills thanks to an NC State University camp she participated in five years ago. As an eighth grader, Hardison was… 

May 10, 2024

Three Faculty Promoted to Associate Professor, Extension Professor

Heartfelt congratulations were extended early Tuesday morning, April 30 to Applied Ecology faculty Jie Cao, Catherine LePrevost, and Elsa Youngsteadt as their promotions were announced to the department. Cao and… 
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Apr 22, 2024

Celebrating Connection: Applied Ecology Turns 10

Faculty, staff and students from the Department of Applied Ecology recently celebrated 10 years as a department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 
Khara Grieger

Apr 16, 2024

Grieger awarded STEPS Center Broadening Participation Medal

Khara Grieger, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at NC State, has been awarded the STEPS Center Broadening Participation Medal. This award recognizes efforts to foster diversity and inclusion… 
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Apr 8, 2024

Buckel Named William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor

Jeff Buckel of Applied Ecology is one of twelve professors in NC State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences named William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor. The professorship is one of… 
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Apr 4, 2024

Renowned Entomologist Delivers Department Seminar on Honey Bee Health

The Department of Applied Ecology welcomed Marla Spivak, Distinguished McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota on Thursday, March 28. A world-renowned entomologist, Spivak studies honey bee and pollinator health,… 
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Nov 30, 2023

Rare Ant Species Rediscovered in North Carolina Trees

The discovery is the first time scientists have photographed or collected any males from the elusive species. 
Graduate student Emily Nastase holding a sparrow in the field

Nov 27, 2023

CALS Graduate Student Studies Tiny Bird Species

Emily Nastase, a doctoral student in the Department of Applied Ecology, is uncovering the secret life of Henslow’s Sparrows, a rare, grassland species that only visits two locations in North Carolina every summer. 
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Oct 24, 2023

A Parasitic Haunting: When Snakes are Eaten From Within

Skylar Hopkins and her Sustainable Health Ecology Lab study snake parasites to gain a better understanding of snake ecology.