Nov 19, 2024
CALS Professor Carlos Iglesias recently traveled to sub-Saharan Africa to help farmers in the Ivory Coast improve their agricultural practices and empower the country to potentially become the breadbasket of west Africa.
Nov 15, 2024
Economist Mike Walden explains how we can examine the health of the U.S. economy, using both short- and long-term measurements.
Nov 14, 2024
A collaboration of researchers will explore a new, high-tech approach to controlling indoor environments for pigs with support from a $1.15 million grant from the National Institute of Farming and Agriculture.
Nov 12, 2024
Can certain diets keep bees healthy? That’s what applied ecology graduate student April Sharp aims to find out by studying Crithidia bombi, a fecal-orally transmitted parasite that may contribute to worldwide bee declines.
Nov 8, 2024
A team of soil scientists from the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences recently visited western North Carolina to support local Extension agents in evaluating shifting landscapes and soil impacts due to Hurricane Helene.
Nov 6, 2024
How will genome editing benefit food and agriculture? We asked CRISPR expert Rodolphe Barrangou, an NC State faculty member and co-founder of five companies.
Nov 1, 2024
NC State economist Mike Walden examines Social Security and how the U.S. could continue to pay for the national retirement program in the future.
Oct 28, 2024
David Tarpy and Brad Metz in Applied Ecology reveal three spooky enemies of the western honey bee, including zombifying parasites, mummifying fungi and vampire mites.
Oct 23, 2024
A new recipe for boudin, a beloved Louisiana sausage, calls for smoked salmon and expertise from seafood scientists with NC State University.
Oct 21, 2024
Jude Samulski has contributed $3 million to advance plant sciences research and help establish the Endowed Chair for the Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture at NC State University.
