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Christina Koch came back to her NC State home to a building with her name on it. During ceremonies on the Centennial Campus Oval Monday morning, the facility previously named Engineering Building II was unveiled as Koch Hall, in honor of the three-time graduate of the university who was one of four crewmembers of Artemis II.

Like dreams, trees take root and reach for the skies. They start small, grow with experience, sway in the blowing wind and tell a unique story with every ring of their inner soul. NC State’s newest tree was planted this spring in honor of one of the school’s biggest dreamers, NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, the three-time graduate of the university who fulfilled her lifelong dream of flying to the moon in April as one of four crewmembers on NASA’s Artemis II.

No one would have believed that quiet, pink-haired Tina Hammock, back when she was a ripped-jeans-wearing NC State freshman in 1997, would one day stand boldly and emotionally in front of 800 registered VIPs and thousands of students, faculty and staff in the sunshine of the Oval to hear her name memorialized in brick.

Article sections By: Jenna Bean, Communications Intern This August, the North Carolina Manufacturers Association (NCMA) celebrated the 25th year of its annual Environmental, Energy, Health & Safety (EEHS) School. On this silver anniversary, the event brought 225 attendees to the McKimmon Center in Raleigh for presentations, panels, and discussions covering Health & Safety, Energy, Sustainability, Air Quality, Water Quality, and Waste Management.

North Carolina State University researchers will help advance biobased manufacturing and rural economic development in the Southeast as part of a regional research initiative backed by up to $160 million from the National Science Foundation. The initiative, known as the BRIDGES Engine, will develop miscanthus and switchgrass for use in biobased products for automotive, construction and packaging applications while building new markets, businesses and jobs in rural communities.

Drive down U.S. 70 toward Clayton, North Carolina, from Raleigh, and you’ll start to come across fields of corn, cotton and other crops not far off the road. While the Central Crops Research Station may look like one of the many farms you’ll find across North Carolina, it is one of 18 research stations supported by NC State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

In 2009, there were two albums you could count on hearing in the Senior Fashion Studio at NC State’s Wilson College of Textiles: the debut albums of Kid Cudi and Lady Gaga. They played over and over again.

At NC State, we talk a lot about “Think and Do.” But behind this motto is often the daily work of observing and analyzing as part of the research process. Creating a visual record of this work is essential to learning and discovery — and precisely what the Envisioning Research contest proudly spotlights. This year, we are celebrating 43 contest winners and honorable mentions who submitted captivating images, graphics and videos of their research across a variety of subject areas.

An international team of scientists have released a new paper to counter the most common and dangerous misconceptions about volcanoes. With modern access to social media and nonstop news cycles, information can reach more people faster than ever, but pervasive rumors can also take root. This new paper is designed to help reporters, decision-makers and the general public prevent the spread of deadly misinformation or undue panic during volcanic eruptions.

Young workers, defined as those from Generation Z – born between 1997 and 2012 – are reported to have numerous complaints about the economy, so much so that polls show them being among the strongest backers of socialism. Their concerns span many topics, including earnings, treatment by their employers, costs, and their inability to achieve the living standards of previous generations, particularly the standards of their predecessor generation, the Millennials, born from 1981-1996.