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Summer in the Blacklands of Bearolina: A Q&A with CALS Student Julie Simons
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (759+ words) While many college students seek summer employment at the coast or in the mountains, NC'State University student Julie Simons is working with NC'State Extension agents in Washington County in the northeastern part of North Carolina. Known for having the largest…...
NC State Chosen as Home for 2025 National Thanksgiving Turkeys
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (420+ words) NC'State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has once again been selected as the home to the official National Thanksgiving Turkey, Gobble, and alternate, Waddle. The pardoned turkeys will make their way to North Carolina following the annual…...
The Graveyard of the Atlantic: From Shipwrecks to Sanctuaries for Sea Life
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (588+ words) A violent storm on New Year's Eve of 1862 doomed the USS Monitor, a Civil War vessel, and 16 members of its crew to a watery grave off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. For over 100 years, it sat undiscovered 230 feet…...
African Wildlife Poop Sheds Light on What Shapes the Gut Ecosystem
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (423+ words) A study of elephants, giraffes and other wildlife in Namibia's Etosha National Park underscores the ways in which the environment, biological sex, and anatomical distinctions can drive variation in the gut microbiomes across plant-eating species. Because the gut microbiome plays…...
Peru Expedition Advances NC State Insect Collection, Research
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (747+ words) At first glance, the mound of dirt didn't look like much. The NC'State University researchers weren't sure if it was worth the trek from Finca Las Piedras Research Station in southeast Peru " until, sitting in the dark amid the sounds…...