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DJ and Ruthie Stokes beside a tractor

Nov 7, 2022

Tradition Meets Innovation

Fueled by their father’s passion for agriculture, Ruthie and DJ Stokes are keeping a family promise: do what you love. The fourth-generation farmers have found common ground in supporting producers back home and feeding a growing population. 
Adrian Percy and Rich Bonanno beside harvested cotton and a tractor

Oct 28, 2022

Adrian Percy’s Year One Reflections

Adrian Percy reflects on the changes and progress of his first year as Executive Director of N.C. PSI, with high hopes for the future. 
A large group stands in front of a tractor in a farm field

Oct 25, 2022

Lab Rats to Field Mice: The N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s Inaugural Backroad Tour

22 N.C. PSI faculty were brought out to the fields of North Carolina to hear from growers and commodity board leaders about the grand challenges they face in agriculture. 
D printer bioprinting plant cells.

Oct 14, 2022

3D Printing Plant Cells Shows Promise for Studying Cell Function

Researchers take a big step in showing efficacy of bioprinting plant cells to study cellular communication and viability in a controlled environment. 

Oct 11, 2022

New Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Will Tackle Global Challenges

A new collaboration between NC State and the Technical University of Denmark aims to uncover new biology-based methods for CO2 management and sustainable fertilizer production. 
A student examines grape vines

Oct 5, 2022

Entomology Grad Student Participates in First Regulatory Science Internship Program

Rocio Davila spent her summer interning with the USDA-FAS to develop pesticide legislation for Central America's agriculture industry. 
Student shows wolfhands as he stands in front of a tomato field and beside a detailed poster on sensor technologies for earlier tomato pathogen detection.

Oct 5, 2022

Connecting Field and Lab with an Eye Toward Extension

Duncan McSorley has spent the past year and a half interning in Extension and the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative on his way to some day becoming an Extension specialist. 
Katharina Stapelmann headshot

Oct 4, 2022

Nuclear Engineer Brings the Fourth State of Matter to Farmers

Dr. Katharina Stapelmann shares how an electrical engineer researching plasma-assisted wound healing ends up making fertilizer for North Carolina farmers. 
an ear of corn with damage from an earworm

Sep 5, 2022

Soil Temperature Can Predict Pest Spread in Crops

Researchers use historical soil temperature data to learn about – and predict – overwintering success of the nasty corn earworm. 
Ph.D. candidate Camilo H. Parada Rojas, right, works in the lab with mentor Lina Quesada-Ocampo, Ph.D.

Aug 15, 2022

The Power of Mentorship

Through intentional mentorship, industry training and job preparedness, FFAR Fellow Camilo H. Parada Rojas understands what it takes to get science to the field.