The Chancellor’s Innovation Fund has announced the 2019 recipients. The fund, established in 2010, helps to fill the gap between public and private funding to bring new…
Pender Wetlands Research Project Profiled in StarNews
The Assessment of Flood Risk and Simulations of Wetland Change in Pender County, N.C. project, which received funding from the North Carolina Community Collaborative Research Grant Program,…
Wolfpack Investor Network Boosts NC State Businesses
The Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN) is an angel investing platform that brings together entrepreneurial NC State alumni to support businesses with a connection to the university. Membership in the…
NC State Entrepreneurship Programs Collaborate to Support Apex Friendship High
Dan Jackson, a teacher at Apex Friendship High School, is collaborating with NC State programs to design an experiential entrepreneurship program for high school students called…
KIETS Board of Trustee Member Stick Williams Receives Leadership Charlotte Legacy Award
Richard “Stick” Williams, who serves as on Board of Trustees for the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science has received the Leadership Charlotte Legacy…
UNC-TV: How Wilson Bay Was Saved From More Sewage Pollution
UNC-TV has profiled the Quantifying and Communicating the Function of Restored Estuarine Habitats project which is a partnership between Michael F Piehler of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine…
NC State MBA Startup Tethis Receives Wolfpack Investor Network’s Largest Capital Raise to Date
“No matter what the entrepreneur is telling you at the front of the room, it probably won’t be the same going forward,” says Joe Sinsheimer,…
NC Aquaculture Grant Proposals Due March 2
The National Sea Grant Program has opened a competitive funding opportunity for the National Aquaculture Initiative. Interested parties must partner with a state-based Sea Grant program,…
2019 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Applications Open
North Carolina Sea Grant is accepting applications for the 2019 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, offered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea…
RISING Reveals Coastal Changes through Art and Oral History
RISING, a new collaborative multimedia exhibition that explores coastal environmental change opened at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North…
NC’s Blue Economy Information Series Summarizes the State’s First Sea-to-School Program
Sea-to-school programs connect schools and fishermen with the aim of providing local seafood to students while creating new markets for fishermen. Despite active farm-to-school programs,…
Kinetic Connections
The Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership has partnered with A+ Schools of NC and the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park to strengthen STEAM education in Wilson County….
Kenan Teacher Fellows program targets rural educators
The following is an excerpt from an article written by Liz Bell of EducationNC. At the beginning of August, more than 100 teachers from counties across…
NC Community Collaborative Research Grant Program Funds New Projects
Five new projects have received funding from the North Carolina Community Collaborative Research Grant program. In its second year, the program leverages support from the William R. Kenan…
Future of U.S. manufacturing is brighter than you think, thanks in part to NC State
Manufacturing USA, launched in 2015, is a nationwide network of 14 public-private institutes, each of which focuses on a specific field of manufacturing technology. NC…
Institute for Emerging Issues brings individuals and groups together to pursue solutions to NC’s challenges
Get to Know: Institute for Emerging Issues The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State brings together individuals and groups to pursue solutions to North Carolina’s…
Kenan Fellows Policy Summit Aims to Strengthen Teacher Leader Voice
RALEIGH ‒ More than a dozen Kenan Fellows from across the state attended a two-day intensive Education Policy Summit June 14-15 in downtown Raleigh. The…
Kenan Fellow Featured in Wilson Times
Will Edwards, a 2017-18 Kenan fellow who is sponsored by the Wilson County Farm Bureau, was featured in the Thursday, June 29, edition of The…
Checking in with The MEDIC, RTP’s 2016 Catalysts for Innovation Award Winner
STEM in the Park recently sat down with the co-founders of The Medical Innovators Collaborative (The MEDIC) to learn how the team has progressed since winning…
Catalysts for Innovation Award Recipient EcoPRT Develops New Modes of Transit
EcoPRT — an inaugural winner of the Catalysts for Innovation Award — is working to create a new mode of transportation that focuses on innovative ways to…