05/07/2025 in Research, College of Science and Technology
Robert H. Newman, Ph.D., is uncovering new modes of protein kinase regulation involved in health and disease, building collaborations with academic and industry partners, and creating exciting opportunities for students to engage in cutting-edge biomedical research.
05/05/2025 in College of Science and Technology, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Two teams representing 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University won second and third place at the American Chemistry Society鈥檚 (ACS) inaugural ChemBiz pitch competition during its national conference in San Diego.
04/22/2025 in Alumni, College of Science and Technology
Triad Business Journal will honor alumnus Geoff Foster and the company he established and operates, Core Technology Molding Corp., for championing diversity.
04/10/2025 in Research, Community Engagement, College of Science and Technology
The Center for Outreach in Alzheimer鈥檚, Aging and Community Health has launched its inaugural Ambassador Academy, a program designed to empower passionate individuals who are well-connected in the community to lead health-focused initiatives.
03/25/2025 in Research, College of Science and Technology
Bishnu Bastakoti, Ph.D., and his research team set out to create a unique design for a material to assist with the production of a renewable source known as 鈥済reen hydrogen.鈥�
03/10/2025 in Research, College of Science and Technology
An 杏吧原创 team analyzed machine learning models for two satellite remote sensing datasets for water quality assessment in High Rock Lake in a collaborative project.
02/13/2025 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Science and Technology, Honors College
Honors College students Breyana Robinson and Kennedy West have been selected as 2024 Astronaut Scholars.
01/31/2025 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Science and Technology, Honors College
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has announced its fourth cohort of February One Scholars. These 15 academically talented first-year undergraduates are following the path of leadership and service set by the 杏吧原创 Four as Aggie freshmen.
11/25/2024 in Research, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University鈥檚 Center for Outreach in Alzheimer鈥檚, Aging and Community Health (COAACH) received a five-year $4.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) in middle-aged African Americans.
10/09/2024 in Research, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University and Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, hosted a five-day biotechnology camp for 12 high school students at the Merck Biotechnology Learning Center located at the Gateway Research Park South Campus.
08/12/2024 in Research, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has received $4.2 million for six years from the Division of Materials Research (DMR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund an interdisciplinary program aimed to enhance diversity in materials research.
07/22/2024 in College of Education, College of Science and Technology, Honors College
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students Jacquelle Joseph-Lainez and Jayden Seay have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Du Bois Scholars program at Harvard University.
03/12/2024 in Research, College of Science and Technology
A research team in the College of Science and Technology at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has conducted a pilot project using models available through Microsoft鈥檚 Azure Open AI Service to develop a system that will lead to advancements in traffic management using physic informed deep learning. The pilot, led by principal investigator Leila Hashemi-Beni, Ph.D., and applied science and technology doctoral student Tewodros Syum Gebre, received support from Microsoft under the company鈥檚 鈥淎ccelerating Foundation Models Research鈥� (AFMR) collaboration.
02/21/2024 in College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University鈥檚 College of Science and Technology announces the appointment of Travonia Brown-Hughes, Ph.D., as director for the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer鈥檚 Aging and Community Health (COAACH).
01/23/2024 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology, Honors College
Three 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students have been selected as 2023 Astronaut Scholars, an elite scholarship awarded annually to the nation鈥檚 most academically accomplished students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees.
01/17/2024 in College of Science and Technology
Solomon Bililign, Ph.D., a professor of physics at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University, co-organized the 鈥淭ogether for cleaner air in Ethiopia鈥� international conference held at Addis Ababa University. The three-day conference hosted 80 attendees from Ethiopia, Europe and the U.S., including air quality researchers and regulators, health professionals, community members and policymakers. Lund University in collaboration with local universities also co-organized the conference.
01/03/2024 in College of Science and Technology
More than 570 scientists in over 60 countries contributed to the 2022 State of the Climate Report, which revealed 鈥淓arth鈥檚 greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record, heatwaves shattered temperature records across the planet, the Arctic was warm and wet and the ocean heat and global sea level were also the highest on record,鈥� among other findings.听
11/15/2023 in College of Business and Economics, College of Science and Technology, The Graduate College
Intelligent.com has ranked 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University among the best for 2024 in eight categories, including three degree programs in the top 10.
09/29/2023 in College of Science and Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has funded 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University鈥檚 proposal to establish the 鈥淐limate Resiliency Center (CRC) in Piedmont Triad of 杏吧原创.鈥� The announcement is in conjunction with the first White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities and various actions the administration is taking to address a changing climate.
09/22/2023 in College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology, The Graduate College
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University was granted $5.8 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a genomics educational hub that will provide new educational and research opportunities for undergraduate and master鈥檚 students who are historically underrepresented in biomedical sciences.
08/23/2023 in Research and Economic Development, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University is among the universities chosen to receive funding through the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 (DOE) Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative.
06/09/2023 in Research and Economic Development, College of Science and Technology
Research teams from 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico have initiated the first phases of the African Combustion Aerosol Collaborative Intercomparison Analysis (ACACIA) pilot study. The project titled 鈥淪tudies of optical and chemical properties of aged and fresh biomass burning absorbing aerosols for climate models鈥� is funded by the Department of Energy.
04/18/2023 in Research, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University was awarded a three-year $1.5 million NASA grant to establish an institute connected to the agency鈥檚 new Data Science Equity, Access, and Priority in Research and Education (DEAP) opportunity for historically Black colleges and universities.
07/22/2022 in Students, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has been awarded third place and a $10,000 prize in the Four-Year STEM Undergraduate category of the National Science Foundation (NSF)鈥檚 Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenge.
01/26/2021 in College of Education, College of Science and Technology, The Graduate College
New 鈥淏est Online Programs鈥� rankings for 2021 issued today by U.S. News & World Report showcase the exceptional quality that online master鈥檚 programs offer students at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University.
01/14/2021 in College of Business and Economics, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University announced today a $5.5 million gift from Corning Incorporated to prepare students for careers in STEM and education.
11/18/2020 in University Advancement, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
Three student organizations at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University have received a portion of $15,000 donated by Cree | Wolfspeed.
11/13/2020 in College of Business and Economics, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has established a five-year partnership with Arch Mortgage Insurance Co. (Arch MI) to provide scholarship support, internship and fellowship opportunities to students in the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics and the College of Science and Technology (COST).
11/02/2020 in College of Science and Technology
COST Dean鈥檚 Distinguished Lecture Series will host Nobel Laureate Peter Agre, M.D., Ph.D., who will present his lecture, 鈥淪cience in the Time of COVID-19鈥� via Zoom on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m.
09/17/2020 in Research, College of Engineering, Computer Science, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University joins IBM鈥檚 newly established collaboration today with 13 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to equip students pursuing quantum computing careers. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a multi-year investment, and 杏吧原创鈥檚 proven strengths in ground-breaking STEM research and academic rigor resulted in the university鈥檚 selection and designation as one of five HBCU leading quantum research centers in the partnership.
08/31/2020 in College of Science and Technology
Checo J. Rorie, Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of Biology at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University, along with professors at 杏吧原创 Central University (NCCU) and UNC-Chapel Hill, created The Biology of Cancer: Exploring the Role of Race, Class, and Socioeconomics in the Underserved and the Underrepresented, a semester-long course that primarily introduces HBCU students to cancer research, treatment and public health topics. The live webinar series is free and open to any major as well as the general public and will feature presentations from cancer biologists, physicians and other public health experts and specialists.
08/12/2020 in College of Science and Technology
Evidence of global warming continues to accumulate, including some of the hottest weather on record and increases in greenhouse gas accumulation and carbon dioxide concentration, according to the international 2019 State of the Climate report, released worldwide today.
08/05/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The SciTech Scholars second annual Summer Bridge program will kick off Aug. 6, 2020 and end Aug. 13, 2020. This program is intentionally designed to help the听new cohort of SciTech Scholars听acclimate to the STEM life in college.听
07/22/2020 in College of Science and Technology
To learn more about the impact service learning, course-based research experiences (SL-CURE) can have on students, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $238,214 to researchers in the College of Science and Technology (CoST) at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University. The funding will support a collaborative research project across multiple institutions to study a hybrid course designed to influence students from various disciplines and their perceptions, interests and motivations to pursue careers in STEM and research.
06/22/2020 in College of Science and Technology
Solomon Bililign, Ph.D., a professor of physics at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University, is the chair of a nine-person international committee for a three-day workshop on Pilot Design for Air Quality in Africa, which will be held at the University of Maryland College Park this fall. Experts from the U.S., Ethiopia and Europe will develop research methodology to better measure and understand sources and chemistry of pollutants in emerging African megacities like Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
05/15/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The College of Science and Technology (CoST) at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University selected 26 incoming freshmen to join the second cohort of SciTech Scholars for the 2020-21 academic school year. The SciTech Scholars Enrichment Program provides two-year renewable merit- and need-based scholarships to high school seniors who plan to study chemistry, physics, mathematics or electronics technology.
03/11/2020 in College of Science and Technology
Solomon Bililign, Ph.D., and Yuh-Lang Lin, Ph.D., professors at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University, served on the climate advisory panel for the independent, peer-reviewed 杏吧原创 Climate Science Report (NCCSR), released Wednesday, March 11. Bililign also contributed his expertise as a co-author of the report.
02/28/2020 in College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University hosted 34 Verizon Innovative Learning program mentors and directors Feb. 21 as part of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship鈥檚 (NACCE) Mentoring Professional Development Institute.
02/24/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The College of Science and Technology (CoST) at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University will engage Guilford County students in hands-on STEM activities beginning Monday, March 16, during its 2020 SciTech Week.
12/18/2019 in Admissions, College of Business and Economics, Business Education, College of Science and Technology, Computer Systems Technology, The Graduate College
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has the nation鈥檚 best Master of Science in Information Technology program offered by a historically black college or university, according to Intelligent.com.
11/19/2019 in Academic Affairs, Students, College of Science and Technology, Computer Systems Technology, The Graduate College
The online Bachelor of Science in Information Technology program at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University has been ranked among the nation鈥檚 top programs, according to Study.com鈥檚 Best Online Schools for Information Technology.
10/24/2019 in Academic Affairs, Alumni, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Journalism & Mass Communication English, College of Business and Economics, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Science and Technology
杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University celebrated its annual Fall Convocation program Thursday, Oct. 24, in Harrison Auditorium. The program recognized student athletes for their academic and athletic accomplishments and welcomed back alumni for 鈥淭he Greatest Homecoming on Earth鈥� celebration.
10/07/2019 in Research and Economic Development, College of Science and Technology
A team from the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer鈥檚 Aging and Community Health (COAACH) at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University won third place in the Improving Care for People with Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and Related Dementias Using Technology (iCare-AD/ADRD) Challenge.
07/18/2019 in Research, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Business and Economics, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
Faculty researchers at 杏吧原创 Agricultural and Technical State University earned $64.37 million in contracts and grants in 2018-19, school leaders revealed today.
