N.C. PSI News

Mar 3, 2025

Women in Ag: Lirong Xiang

As a recipient of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research New Innovator Award, professor and agricultural engineer Lirong Xiang is building robots to neutralize one of agriculture’s biggest foes — weeds. 

Feb 28, 2025

The Heart of the N.C. PSI: Geoff Bock

There’s no one who knows the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative quite like Geoff Bock. Hired in 2016 as its first employee, Bock has seen it grow from a seed… 

Feb 25, 2025

Cultiv8 Group, N.C. PSI Partner to Help AgTech Startups Deliver Solutions

The North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative at NC State University and Cultiv8 Group — comprising Spark Labs Cultiv8 and Cultiv8 Funds Management of Orange, Australia — have entered a new partnership… 

Feb 20, 2025

The Heart of the N.C. PSI: Sarah Cochran-Murray

Editor’s Note: As we gear up for NC State’s 2025 Day of Giving on March 26, the N.C. PSI is highlighting passion-inspired, donor-fueled staff, students and others behind our plant sciences research, extension and… 

Feb 13, 2025

The Heart of the N.C. PSI: Jevon Smith

Editor’s Note: As we gear up for NC State’s 2025 Day of Giving on March 26, the N.C. PSI is highlighting passion-inspired, donor-fueled staff, students and others behind our plant sciences… 

Feb 12, 2025

N.C. PSI Seeds Project to Improve Apple Production

An interdisciplinary North Carolina State University team has kicked off new research exploring whether imaging technologies paired with artificial intelligence might prove useful for apple farmers. Seed funding for the… 

Feb 6, 2025

Debjani Sihi Joins NC State to Advance Agriculture with AI and Big Data

Meet Debjani Sihi, CALS' first interdisciplinary AI cluster hire, who's using AI and big data to make farming smarter and more sustainable. 

Jan 30, 2025

Moving Plant Disease Diagnosis from Lab to Field for Faster Results

North Carolina State University researchers continue to push the field of plant disease diagnosis forward, developing simple-to-run tests capable of delivering results in minutes, sometimes before plants show visible signs… 

Jan 13, 2025

What’s Ahead for the N.C. PSI in 2025

As the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative enters its fourth year in the Plant Sciences Building, Executive Director Adrian Percy sees it growing beyond its startup phase into a stage… 

Dec 19, 2024

Preparing for a Future that Matters

For North Carolina State University Ph.D. candidate  Sina Jamalzadegan, 2024 has been a big year. Not only has the engineering student made headway in using artificial intelligence (AI) to create…