The October 2012 Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative Summit () on Environmentally Responsible Shale Gas Extraction explored the most important issues related to the prevention…
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Kenan Institute Initiatives
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…
2014 NCBC Agricultural Biotechnology Summit
The NC Ag Biotech Summit 2014 is the inaugural collaborative conference between North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center – building on…
SPIA/TISS Energy and Security Initiative (ESI)
The Energy and Security Initiative (ESI) promotes interdisciplinary, inter-university, and international research in the field of energy and security; facilitates faculty and student collaboration and…
GRC on Science and Technology Policy Systems
The 2014 Gordon Research Conference, on Science and Technology Policy held from August 10th-15th and led by NC State Professor Jennifer Kuzma addressed the challenges…
Eastern NC Land of Water (LOW) KIETS / KIPE Collaboration
The Eastern NC Land of Water (LOW) initiative is an outgrowth of the Sustainable Coastal Economy project led by ECU Professor Stan Riggs and supported…
College of Science Industry Partner Access Day Initiative
The College of Sciences hosted its second Access Day on February 6, 2014, with the purpose of providing a structure for connecting potential partners in…
TEC Program Accelerating Commercialization and Transfer (ACT) Initiative
Through the Accelerating the Commercialization of Technology (ACT) program, graduate student interns supervised by an experienced manager develop reports and recommendations for NC State owned…
Project SEED – NC American Chemical Society Chapter Initiative
The North Carolina Project Science Educational Experience for the Disadvantaged (SEED) Program is an initiative of the North Carolina chapter of the American Chemical Society…
NC State Engineers Without Borders Student Chapter Initiative
NC State University’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is implementing a participatory development project for a renewable energy photovoltaic (PV) system that will…
Center for the Atomic Structure of Matter
Led by Professor Jacob Jones in NC State’s Department of Materials Science Engineering, a proposed Center for the Atomic Structure of Matter is a partnership…
Natural Variation and Systems Level Properties of Gene Regulation in Drosophila
Regulation of gene expression is of paramount importance in multicellular organisms, with improper regulation resulting in congenital defects and disease states in adults. Led by…
International Conference on Self–Healing Materials
The 2015 International Conference on Self-Healing Materials (ICSHM2015), which will be co-hosted by Duke University, NC State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, will take place in…
NC State / UNC Strategic Alliance for Translational and Regenerative Medicine
Led by College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Jorge Piedrahita, NC State has an opportunity to coalesce efforts across the university and, by recruiting key faculty…
Expanding Genome Editing with the CRISPR Immune System
NC State Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Chase Beisel is investigating the advancement of treating genetic and infectious diseases through the directed modification of the…
NC State Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Speaker Series
The NC State Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Speaker Series is an initiative of the Institute for Nonprofits within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences…