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September 30, 2026

Researchers Offer Three Ways to Alert Users to AI Hallucinations with ‘Embodied’ Agents

This is the first study to assess the performance of hallucination awareness cues with regard to embodied conversational agents.
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September 29, 2026

Securing Supply Chains Using Generative AI

NC State CS Assistant Professor Xiaorui Liu is helping to lead a collaborative, NSF-funded project that will use generative AI to assemble resilient supply chains in minutes instead of months.
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September 24, 2026

Leading the Pack in Cybersecurity

A Conversation with Laura Rodgers, NC State Director of Cybersecurity Practice and Director of NC-PaCE about the importance of cybersecurity to North Carolina, how we’re helping to spearhead it.
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September 24, 2026

NC State Engineering Climbs National Rankings

U.S. News and World Report ranked the College of Engineering at NC State University No. 18 among public institutions in its 2027 list of best undergraduate engineering programs. 
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September 22, 2026

How Amateur Naturalists Are Helping Scientists Track What Everything Eats

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created an open-source website to learn what different organisms eat, and what eats them. The site serves as both a resource for ecological research and an educational tool to advance public understanding of the global food web.
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September 14, 2026

Celebrating Centennial: POP Back 2026

Despite a rain delay, students gathered in the hundreds to enjoy free food, games and the opportunity to meet with dozens of student groups and employers. 
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September 10, 2026

NC State Receives $20 Million Grant to Develop New AI-Enabled Learning Technologies

The five-year award from the National Science Foundation supports research on AI tools that can generate interactive narratives effective at engaging K-12 students and improving learning.
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September 04, 2026

NC State CS Faculty Help Lead NSF Cybersecurity PI Conference

NC State Department of Computer Science faculty were well represented at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Biennial Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC) Conference in August. The meeting, which…
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September 04, 2026

Williams, Menzies Inducted into Inaugural Class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy

Distinguished University Professor in Security Sciences Laurie Williams and Professor Tim Menzies were inducted into the newly established academy, which honors individuals whose cumulative work has shaped modern software engineering research, practice and education.
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September 01, 2026

Menzies Named a 2026 Springer Nature Editor of Distinction

Menzies has worked with Springer Nature’s Automated Software Engineering journal for over 15 years, first as an associate editor and as Editor-in-Chief since 2022.
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August 26, 2026

Introducing the Fall 2026 NC State CS AI Seminar Series

The NC State Department of Computer Science AI Seminar Series returns with six speakers for the fall 2026 semester.
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August 24, 2026

A New Name at Home

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to the campus where she earned three degrees, welcomed by a cheering crowd, a renamed building with her name on it and a limited-edition taste of her own Howling Cow ice cream.
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