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June 2021

NC State bell tower in the spring

Jun 11, 2021

Three from CSC win NSF CAREER Awards

Alexander Kapravelos, Christopher Parnin and Ruozhou Yu, all assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science, have each received an NSF CAREER Award. 

Jun 10, 2021

New Board of Governors member tours Fitts-Woolard Hall

NC State faculty and staff members showed off some of the building's state-of-the-art labs to Sonja Nichols, a newly appointed member of the UNC Board of Governors. 

illustration shows a double helix that is DNA from one angle and a computer chip from another angle

Jun 10, 2021

New twist on DNA data storage lets users preview stored files

Researchers have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a useful tool. 

Nuclear engineering students in Burlington Labs.

Jun 5, 2021

Martin-Vega addresses new graduates during global event

Dean Louis Martin-Vega addressed nuclear science and engineering graduates around the globe during an online commencement program. 

Jun 4, 2021

NC State Entrepreneurship selects five new alumni for the 2021 Miller Fellowship

Billy Dickinson, a mechanical engineering alumnus, was named to the new cohort of Miller Fellows, a program that supports newly graduated entrepreneurs who wish to pursue their entrepreneurial ventures full-time after graduation. 

Jun 3, 2021

Sizes, scales and powers of 10: A virtual environment to compare extreme sizes

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Karen Chen and her team a $1.3 million research grant, allowing them to use virtual reality to improve students' understanding of the extremes of scale in STEM. 

Jun 1, 2021

Researchers fine-tune control over AI image generation

The new approach allows AI to move or alter elements in an image while keeping them identifiably the same.