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Research Initiatives

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Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminars (GKRS)

A Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar (GKGRS) is a two-day meeting designed specifically for graduate students, post-doctoral students, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience….

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Bioseparations / Bioprocessing Development Center (BBDC)

State funds allocated to BTEC support its educational and training programs, which are based on hands-on instruction in state-of-the-art facilities. The BBDC funding provided by…

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NC State Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program

NC State’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (ORI), in collaboration with the Kenan Institute, developed and launched the NC State Research…

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NC Sea Grant /WRRI/ NC Space Grant Community Collaborative Research Grant Program

The NC Sea Grant (NCSG) Community Collaborative Research Grant (CCRG) program seeks to address priority coastal issues in the state by strategically linking local ecological…

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National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL)

KIETS Director Ruben G. Carbonell is a member of the leadership team for NIIMBL, an institute that is part of the Manufacturing USA Network to…

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Novo Nordisk Foundation International Collaboration on Bioprocessing (AIM-Bio)

NC State and BTEC, in conjunction with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Copenhagen, is in the middle of the fourth year of a…

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The Poulton Innovation Center on Main Campus Drive on Centennial Campus. Photo by Marc Hall

Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Proposal Initiative in Partnership with ORI / External Affairs

The Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) and External Affairs, Partnerships and Economic Development (EAPED) at N.C. State University seeks to identify multidisciplinary faculty teams…

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Comparative Medicine Institute Promoting Interdisciplinary Research Project

The NC State Comparative Medicine Institute’s (CMI) mission is to provide clinical and research opportunities to professional students, graduate students, clinical residents, postdoctoral fellows, and…

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BTEC Professional Development Course Marketing Initiative

The purpose of the BTEC marketing initiative is to help BTEC better understand the market for professional development training in biomanufacturing. BTEC’s Industry Training program…

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Reimagining Soft Materials for Haptic Engineering Initiative

Professor Lilian Hsiao, in the NC State Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is leading a research program centered around intelligent soft materials. A major…

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Golden Leaf BTEC building Centennial Campus building. PHOTO BY ROGER WINSTEAD

BTEC 2.0 Senior Research Scientist Initiative

The Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) continues to work toward expanding its research and educational programs in an initiative called BTEC 2.0….

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The Nonwovens Institute (NWI) at North Carolina State University is proactively responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim is to fully leverage and fortify our facilities to produce facemasks that are desperately needed in the coronavirus fight. Thus, with the full support of NC State, NWI is dedicating its meltblown and spunbond nonwoven making facilities and expertise to produce specially designed fabrics that can be delivered to USA manufacturers to assemble facemasks. Photo by Marc Hall

Modeling Electrostatically Charged Filters Loaded with Liquid Aerosols Initiative

Professor Hooman Tafreshi in the NC State Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering along with Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Director of the NC State Nonwovens Institute…

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8th International Conference on Soft Matter

Soft matter science is relatively new, emerging prominently in the 1980s and early 1990s, with significant organizational development occurring over the last several decades. Polymers,…

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The Plant Sciences Building on Centennial Campus houses research inside and out. Photo by Becky Kirkland.

Multimodal Sensors in Agriculture: Enhancing Sustainability through Graduate Student Support (PSI Connecting2Grow Initiative)

The NC State Plant Sciences Initiative (PSI) is implementing the Multimodal Sensors in Agriculture program as part of its Connecting2Grow effort. This is an outgrowth…

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In one of many labs researchers work on new experiments...By Becky Kirkland

Exploration of Novel Sustainable Tactile Sensing Arrays from Hierarchical 3D Printable Hydrogels

NC State Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professors Orlin Velev and Lilian Hsiao are leading a research initiative on tactile sensing. Emerging technologies for skin-mounted sensors…

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Afsaneh Rabiei checks on metallic foam created in her lab.

Metal Foams as Innovative Materials for Bioseparations

Led by NC State Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Afsaneh Rabiei and Chemical Engineering Professor Cristiana Boi, this research investigates the use of metal foams…

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