The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Educators of Excellence Institutes provides first-hand experience in the natural world for outstanding educators from across the state….
Past Programs Initiatives
Special Research Education Commercialization Policy & Public Engagement Kenan Institutes Collaboratory Past Programs
NC Public School Forum Education Policy Fellows Program for Kenan Fellows
The Public School Forum has led the North Carolina Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) since 1992, and it has continued to be the only statewide…
NC State Science, Technology, and Society Program NSF Intelligence, Secrecy and Ethics Workshop
Led by NC State College of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Dr. Kathleen Vogel, this workshop held April 18-19, 2016 at NC State brought together…
Marine Bio-Technologies Center for Innovation Aqua-Food Revolution for North Carolina Portfolio Assessment
With support from the Kenan Institute, the Marine Bio-Technologies Center for Innovation (MBCOI) completed a comprehensive review of the freshwater and marine aquaculture industry in…
COE/CHASS Engineering, Policy and Society Seminar Series
The EPSS is a joint effort between the College of Engineering and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and aims to provide opportunities to…
Microfluidic Device for Dyes from Small Fiber Samples for Forensics
Forensic science employs scientific instruments and techniques that can assist in answering the key questions of when and how a crime was committed and who…
Ligand-Mediated Vascular Repair and Therapeutic Targeting
Dr. Anka Dobreva-Veleva is leading this effort, in collaboration with faculty from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and the NC State College of…
NC Forensic Sciences Institute
North Carolina State University is working to become an international leader in forensic sciences. Over the last 18 months, faculty teams from six colleges at…
Nonwovens Institute Coating and Surface Modification Pilot Facility
The Nonwovens Institute led by Professor Benham Pourdeyhimi is establishing a coating and surface modification pilot line facility at North Carolina State University. The coating…
NC Sustainable Coastal Economy Initiative
Led by East Carolina University Professor Stan Riggs, a multi-disciplinary research team is developing a scientific baseline for NC’s coastal system essential for solving economic…
NC Agricultural Biotechnology Education Initiative
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center in collaboration with the Kenan Institute held a symposium titled “Accelerating North Carolina’s Leadership in Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Choices”…
State of NC Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS)
The State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS) highlights the scholarship of students from both private and state-supported colleges, universities, and community…
Kenan Institute Visiting Faculty Scholars Program – Faculty Public Policy Engagement Initiative
The Kenan Institute has developed a visiting faculty scholars program that enables faculty from other universities in the United States and from other countries to…
NC Science Summit
The State of North Carolina and the health of its economy increasingly depend on innovation that starts new enterprises, grows existing companies and draws industry…
Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative Summit
The October 2012 Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative Summit () on Environmentally Responsible Shale Gas Extraction explored the most important issues related to the prevention…
Comparative Innovation Research Initiative
Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) Director Anita Brown-Graham is investigating the roles institutions of higher education across the globe are playing in driving an innovation-based…
NSF PFI Commercialization of the Solid State Transformer through Strategic Partnership
The NSF FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University led by Professor Alex Huang is focusing on the development of a number of key technologies…
NC Agricultural Biotechnology Institute
The Kenan Institute is collaborating with the NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the NC Biotechnology Center to investigate the potential…
Characterization of the Molecular Basis of Human Health and Disease
This research initiative focuses on the development and application of high performance mass spectrometry to unravel molecular components in complex biological samples to accomplish such…
NC State Centennial Campus 30th Anniversary Initiative
NC State University will be commemorating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Centennial Campus, a unique community where government and industry partners work collaboratively…