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N.C. PSI News

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. 
A group standing in a parking lot, near a truck with the back gate open and scientific equipment in the truckbed

Aug 10, 2022

$1M NSF Grant Awarded to Help Better Predict Emerging Plant Disease Pandemics

NC State researchers plan to use real-time analytics through sensor technology, data mining, remote sensing and modeling to better monitor and predict plant diseases. 
Celeste Brogdon headshot

Aug 10, 2022

Brogdon Leading Strategic Engagement for Two Large Initiatives at NC State

Celeste Brogdon will oversee relationship management with key stakeholder groups for NC State as the Director of Strategic Engagement for N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI) and the NC Food Lab (NCFIL). 
NC State Plant Science Building

Aug 9, 2022

OIT empowers university research

OIT has partnered with N.C. PSI and CALS IT to acquire new positions that will help meet the research data needs of N.C. PSI and beyond. 
Mariana Prieto Torres working in lab

Aug 1, 2022

Colombia Native Excited About FFAR Fellowship Opportunity

CALS Ph.D. student Mariana Prieto Torres loves translational science. As a FFAR Fellow and international student, she is excited to learn how to better share her research with growers worldwide. 
A bag of nitrogen fertilizer in a field

Jul 25, 2022

When Crops Eat First

NC State researchers investigate if enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEFs) could benefit both farm profitability and the environment.