Heather Frantz
Small-scale Science with Big Results: Using Nanotechnology to Improve Agricultural Sustainability
To feed a growing world population in the face of mounting environmental challenges, a team of scientists including Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist Khara Grieger sought to grow plants more sustainably. Enter nanotechnology, which refers to the ability to engineer and […]
One Health Workshop Brings Together International Universities and Non-Government Organizations at NC State
Researchers and practitioners from three countries gathered for a three-day workshop funded by NC State’s Global One Health Academy (GOHA) to strengthen and expand collaborations between several universities and non-government organizations that work with local and Indigenous communities to improve […]
Wager Receives Prestigious Scholarship Award
USGS North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Gather for Coordinating Meeting, Collazo and Cooperative Research Unit Recognized
The coordinating body of the North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (CRU) met in-person for the first time in five years at North Carolina State University, the CRU’s host university. The unit had much to celebrate, as Professor […]
Khara Grieger named co-Director of Outreach and Advocacy for the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein
The Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein has launched at North Carolina State University. The Bezos Earth Fund awarded NC State $30 million over five years to lead a center of excellence to create a biomanufacturing hub for dietary proteins that […]
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 Research Fellowship provides three years of funding for outstanding […]
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 introduced to aquatic science through the Falls Lake Forensic […]
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 Youngsteadt are being promoted to associate professor with tenure. LePrevost […]
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 in the Center. The NSF-funded STEPS (Science and Technologies […]
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 the college’s highest honors, created to recognize outstanding scholars, […]