Faculty

Nov 26, 2024

Prof. Spontak to Receive the 2025 Acta Materialia Inc. Holloman Award for Materials and Society

Professor Richard Spontak has been selected to receive the 2025 Acta Materialia Inc. Holloman Award for Materials and Society! This award recognizes demonstrated leadership in promoting the understanding of the… 

Nov 14, 2024

Creating a New Class of Materials

Simple to produce. Hard to break. Yet stretchable and over 50% liquid. Those are a few of the qualities of a completely new class of materials created by Professor Michael… 

Nov 1, 2024

Prof. Hsiao Selected to Receive the American Physical Society’s 2025 Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research

Prof. Lilian Hsiao has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2025 Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research. The award recognizes outstanding and sustained contributions by an early-career… 

Oct 21, 2024

Finding Could Help Turn Trees Into Affordable, Greener Industrial Chemicals

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses, and North Carolina State University scientists and engineers are making headway in finding ways to use them as sustainable, environmentally benign alternatives to producing industrial chemicals from petroleum. 

Oct 16, 2024

CBE Professor Named NC State’s Integrative Sciences Initiative Director of Accelerated Technologies

The original article was written by Emily Packard for NC State Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost News. Two new directors of NC State’s Integrative Sciences Initiative (ISI) and the first occupants of Woodson Hall,… 

Sep 19, 2024

Precision sensors: an innovative future for agriculture

This is an excerpt from an article written by H’Rina DeTroy in University Communications. At the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI), NC State researchers are advancing sensor technology to…