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Sep 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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Sep 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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Sep 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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Sep 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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Sep 4, 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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Sep 4, 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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Sep 1, 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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Aug 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.
Christina Koch at NC State.

Aug 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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Aug 14, 2026

Meet Department of Computer Science Head Daphne Yao

Learn more about her leadership style, strengths, plans for the department and what excites her most about the future of computer science at NC State University.