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GOHA Affiliate Member Bill Rand One of Four Winners the 2025 Outstanding Research Award

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Jun 12, 2025

GOHA Affiliate Member Yogesh Saini Advances Understanding of Cystic Fibrosis

By Bethany Brookshire People with cystic fibrosis are in a constant battle with the thick, sticky mucus that builds up in the airways of their lungs. But while the genetic disease is due to mutations in one specific gene, it takes a score of proteins to make mucus, and not all of them are fully… 

Jun 11, 2025

GOHA Student Spotlight – Liz McCormick

Liz McCormick, Ph.D., was a recipient of the Fall 2023 Graduate Travel Awards, where she traveled to Atlanta, Charlotte, Durham, and Washington, D.C. to study indoor quality of office buildings. Learn more about Dr. McCormick and how the Global One Health Academy helped support her graduate research on the critical role indoor environments play in public health through her featured spotlight! 

Jun 3, 2025

GOHA Affiliate Member Warren Jasper co-author to new paper exploring AI as tool for cutting down waste and improving quality in dyed fabrics

A new study finds that machine learning can help reduce textile manufacturing waste by more accurately mapping how colors will change during the dyeing process.  Fabrics are typically dyed while wet, and their colors change as they dry. This can make it difficult to know what a piece of fabric will end up looking like… 
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Jun 2, 2025

5 Tips to Stay Safe Outdoors in Extreme Heat

Prolonged exposure to extreme heat can pose serious health risks for people engaging in outdoor activities. 

May 28, 2025

Celebrating the First Graduates of the Participatory Sciences Certificate

The Global One Health Academy and Citizen Science Campus are excited to announce the first graduates of the Participatory Sciences Graduate Certificate. Congratulations to Marcus Bailey (CNR) and Alejandra Betancourt (CNR)! Check out the interview below to learn more about these two students. 
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May 21, 2025

Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Backs Six Budding Inventions

This year’s CIF awardees are exploring how to ensure endpoint cybersecurity in the era of quantum computing; make veterinary eye surgeries safer; replace plastic foam with a biodegradable alternative; help farmers grow more crops with less fertilizer; and enhance a cutting-edge gene-editing technique that uses electrical pulses to deliver DNA into cells. 
Dr. Tal Ben-Horin relocates a set of oyster bags from CMAST to Core Sound as part of a study into the disease resistance of different genetic lines of oyster.

May 15, 2025

GOHA Affiliate Member Tal Ben-Horin Gets State Grant to Study How to Make Oysters Hardier

The NC Department of Environmental Quality has awarded Dr. Tal Ben-Horin, an assistant professor of shellfish pathology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, a $200,000 grant to continue studying whether the genetic lines of farmed oysters that survive mass casualty events can be used to breed more resilient oysters. The popular delicacies have… 

May 12, 2025

GOHA Announces Fall 2025 Graduate Travel Awardees

The Global One Health Academy is excited to announce the recipients for the Fall 2025 Graduate Travel Awards to support international or domestic travel that advances global One Health-related research. Two eligible NC State graduate students were awarded funding for travel occurring July through December 2025. Congratulations to our awardees! 

May 8, 2025

GOHA Student Spotlight – Kaylin Lewandowski

Kaylin Lewandowski, Ph.D. student in Entomology and Plant Pathology, was a recipient of the Spring 2024 Graduate Travel Awards, where she traveled to Uganda. Learn more about Lewandowski and how the Global One Health Academy has helped support her research on malaria incidence in the East African Country through her featured spotlight. 
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May 7, 2025

GOHA Affiliate Member Bill Rand One of Four Winners the 2025 Outstanding Research Award

Felix N. Castellano, Bill Rand, Melanie Simpson and Ross Sozzani won the 2025 Outstanding Research Award — the university’s top honor recognizing faculty who lead in their fields, commit to mentoring their fellow NC State faculty and advance a multidisciplinary research community. The four award winners will be inducted into the Research Leadership Academy.