NC State’s Barrangou Wins Canada Gairdner Award
Rodolphe Barrangou wins prestigious Gairdner Award for pioneering the gene-editing system known as CRISPR....Continue reading "NC State’s Barrangou Wins Canada Gairdner Award"
Barrangou Wins Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
Rodolphe Barrangou shares prestigious award for his pioneering work on the revolutionary gene-editing system known as CRISPR....Continue reading "Barrangou Wins Warren Alpert Foundation Prize"
Mackay Wins Prestigious Wolf Prize
Trudy Mackay receives one of the world’s most prestigious awards for academic achievement, a Wolf Prize....
2015-16 Faculty Scholars Named
Chancellor Randy Woodson announces this year’s University Faculty Scholars, high-performing faculty members recognized for their significant achievements in scholarship, teaching and service....
USDA Grants $6.7M to Curb Fruit Pest
NC State entomologist Hannah Burrack will lead a four-year effort to manage the spotted wing drosophila, a tiny fruit fly that causes hundreds of millions of dollars in annual agricultural losses....
Biomedical Engineer Zhen Gu Named to Tech Review’s Top Innovators Under 35
Zhen Gu, an assistant professor in NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill’s joint biomedical engineering program, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” for his work on developing novel drug-delivery systems for treating cancer and diabetes....Continue reading "Biomedical Engineer Zhen Gu Named to Tech Review’s Top Innovators Under 35"
Public Response to New Technologies in Food Depends on the Type of Tech
A recent study highlights the complexity of determining how the public will respond to incorporating nanotechnology or genetic modification into food products....Continue reading "Public Response to New Technologies in Food Depends on the Type of Tech"
Bacterial Genome Scalpel Can Identify Key Gene Regions
Bacteria have a system for ridding genomes of unwanted DNA sequences. But how does the system work in bacteria? NC State researchers find out....Continue reading "Bacterial Genome Scalpel Can Identify Key Gene Regions"
