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Students Win 2025-26 Funding from the N.C. PSI

Dee Shore

Five students pose together

Jan 5, 2026

Students Use Data Science Skills to Address USDA Ag Challenges

As USDA interns, five NC State graduate students applied data science skills to help build AI tools for agriculture. 
Dani Jones leaning against stairwell railing

Jan 2, 2026

Jones to Lead N.C. PSI Education and Workforce Development Platform

Dani Jones joins the N.C. PSI leadership team, planning to expand on the groundbreaking efforts of former Education and Workforce Development Platform Director Terri Long. 
Two deer amid snowfall

Dec 5, 2025

Researchers Are Out to Take a Bite Out of a Big Challenge for Christmas Tree Growers: Deer

N.C. PSI researchers pursue a new way to keep deer from eating growers' profits. 
Person wheeling bike outside laboratory

Dec 5, 2025

Plant Sciences Building: Certified Sustainable

For the first time, NC State has certified an entire building as a Sustainable Lab, with the Plant Sciences Building earning the designation in November. 
Terri and Bob Lamendola pose inside the Plant Sciences Building

Dec 4, 2025

Paying Success Forward

A Greensboro couple’s gift to the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative serves as a tangible reminder of the good that comes from giving back and maintaining strong family ties. 
Nathan Rhein stands beside a research poster

Nov 17, 2025

Planting New Opportunities

A joint internship program between NC State Extension and N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative gave CALS student Nathaniel Rhein hands-on experience with interdisciplinary research. 
Four people standing in a building lobby, with one speaking into a microphone.

Nov 13, 2025

Bridging the Art-and-Science Divide

While popular opinion tends to place art and science at opposing poles, artist Leah Sobsey is more inclined to focus on the ground they share in helping us understand our… 
Man holds up a tomato plant as he speaks to a group outside.

Nov 11, 2025

On the Backroads, Again

Researchers from five NC State colleges joined the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s 2025 Backroad Tour, learning more about Western North Carolina agriculture and considering ways their expertise can help solve farm problems. 
Drone flying over an open field, with a docking station and laptop nearby

Nov 10, 2025

Precision on Autopilot

New drone technology being tested by N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative faculty affiliate Frank Bai is poised to usher crop production into the future. 
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Nov 1, 2025

Students Win 2025-26 Funding from the N.C. PSI

With donor funding, the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative is supporting eight graduate students with research addressing a range of agricultural and environmental challenges.