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Ben Hines

Mar 4, 2024

An Organic Partnership

NC State’s Organic and Carbon Electronics faculty cluster has partnered with Wake Technical Community College to provide their students with hands-on STEM research opportunities.

Memorial Belltower

Feb 19, 2024

2023-24 University Faculty Scholars Named

NC State’s 2023-24 class of University Faculty Scholars was announced today. These 22 early- and mid-career faculty receive this designation in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements and contributions to NC State through their teaching, scholarship and service to the university and beyond.

Chris Hewett, supervisor of the Department of Physics Instrument Shop, welds the roundhouse, a stainless steel cylindrical structure that experimental physicists will use to study low-energy neutrons.

Feb 14, 2024

An Instrumental Place

Experimental research often requires the creation of custom equipment. The Department of Physics Instrument Shop is up for the challenge. 

Harald Ade, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, helps to coordinate the efforts of researchers in the Carbon Electronics cluster.

Dec 15, 2023

Carbon Electronics Cluster Co-directors Named to Highly Cited Researchers List

Harald Ade, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor of Physics, and Aram Amassian, University Faculty Scholar and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, have been named to an annual list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.

The milky way galaxy

Dec 7, 2023

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements

How heavy can an element be? Ancient stars were capable of producing elements heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth.

Nov 27, 2023

Understanding Charged Particles Helps Physicists Simulate Element Creation in Stars

Figuring out how nucleons interact at low energy can lead to understanding how elements form within stars.

NC State gateway at sunset

Oct 24, 2023

Physicist McLaughlin Wins Feshbach Prize

Gail McLaughlin, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, won the 2024 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.

Memorial Belltower

Oct 23, 2023

Using AI to Solve Fundamental Issues in Nuclear Physics

A new collaboration aims to solve the nuclear many-body problem.

NC State University sign

Sep 28, 2023

NC State Researchers Awarded $3 Million from NSF to Design Revolutionary Materials

The research will drive the design, discovery and development of advanced materials needed to address major societal challenges.

Ai image of brain

Aug 31, 2023

An ‘Introspective’ AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance

An AI that can learn how it learns chooses a diverse neural network to solve problems.