2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium Winners Named

Nearly 200 NC State graduate students presented their research projects during the 18th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium held at the McKimmon Center on April 2nd. This year 24 graduate students… 

I Am CALS: Giuliana Mendoza

Plant biology major Giuliana Mendoza hopes to grow her lifelong interest in plants into a career dedicated to addressing food insecurity. 

Students Build Industry Connections

Stop by Witherspoon Student Center, and you’ll find it bustling with students. Last Friday, a group of graduate students hosted their own Industry Fair, with representatives in attendance from eight… 

The Heart of the N.C. PSI: Suhanee Anand and Olivia McCormack

As they open doors to the plant sciences for hundreds of middle and high school students, two North Carolina State University undergraduates are also gaining skills that will equip them… 

The Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service helps a CALS researcher open up “a bottleneck of scientific progress”

Sometimes small problems lead to big solutions. When Plant and Microbial Biology researcher Orlando Arguello-Miranda needed a central place to store large image files for a 50-person workshop, he asked… 

Optimizing Corn Production for Greater Efficiency

From juicy corn on the cob and crunchy tortilla chips to livestock feed and ethanol for gasoline, corn is an essential crop for many of the products of daily life.