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Aug 5, 2025

One Question 15 Years Ago Leads to a $50K Endowment for Scholarships

Through the Mehlenbacher Family Scholarship, Doug and Dani Mehlenbacher hope to provide resources that will help attract engineering students to study paper science.

Aug 4, 2025

Smurfit Westrock Gift Sets Pace for Paper Science and Engineering Corporate Fundraising Effort

The gift kicks off a multimillion-dollar plan to modernize the capabilities, appeal and offerings of the paper science and engineering degree program.

Jul 31, 2025

Global Trade Tensions Threaten North Carolina’s Craft Brewing Industry, Expert Says

Heightened tariffs on imported aluminum and steel could have significant consequences for the industry, including decreased sales and revenue.

Jul 31, 2025

Can You Still Love Summer When It’s So Damn Hot?

Vox
Aaron Hipp, a professor of community health and sustainability at North Carolina State University, provides tips on how to safely enjoy the outdoors during periods of extreme heat.

Jul 29, 2025

FIFA World Cup: Can It Leave Behind a Positive and Lasting Human Rights Legacy?

The international soccer tournament has been linked to a range of human rights violations, including migrant worker exploitation, restrictions on freedom of expression, and much more.

Jul 27, 2025

Study: Building a High Rise Out of Wood?

Morning Ag Clips
A new study published by North Carolina State University researchers finds that adopting cross-laminated timber as a primary construction material could have significant environmental benefits, from carbon storage to global reforestation and increased forest cover.

Jul 25, 2025

Ellison Lambert Advances Career Through Online Master’s Degree Program

Lambert recently graduated with an online master’s degree in parks, recreation, tourism and sport management from the College of Natural Resources.

Jul 17, 2025

Dogxim: The Fox-Dog Hybrid That Shouldn’t Have Existed

IFLScience
“Cross-species hybridization is well known among the Canis (dogs/wolves/coyotes/jackals), but I've never heard of CROSS-GENUS hybridization," wrote Roland Kays, a research associate professor at North Carolina State University.

Jul 16, 2025

Naming Opportunities Still Available to Support Slocum Camp Enhancements

The Slocum Camp Hill Forest Enhancement Campaign was established with the goal of raising at least $1.5 million for the renovation, restoration and revitalization of the camp’s cabins, classrooms, trails and other facilities.

Jul 14, 2025

The Eastern Hemlock’s Future Was Once in Doubt. But There’s New Hope for Its Survival

The Post and Courier
The hemlock is being threatened by an invasive pest without any natural predators here. In this case, it’s the hemlock woolly adelgid. “It got here, it started to spread to our native hemlocks, and because the hemlock woolly adelgid is not native here, our trees didn’t know how to respond,” said Kelly Oten, an assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University.