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Oct 3, 2025

From Pine Cones to Kilns: A Plant Biologist’s Passion for Pottery

Graduate school is a time for research, professional development and personal growth. Exemplifying this is Erin Emott, a Ph.D. student at NC State University studying plant biology whose pottery has won two Visual Artist Awards from Arts NC State in the past two years. Outside of her time in the art studio, Emott keeps busy…
Landscape image of clay samples, as seen through a scanning electron microscope.

Aug 6, 2025

Sculpting and Scanning: Clay research happening at the Crafts Center

Jacob Jones of the Material Science and Engineering Department collaborates with Blake Kennedy of the Clay Studio in NC State’s Crafts Center to help Dr. Jones’ engineering students understand ceramics from both engineering and artistic perspectives.  In addition to broadening students’ perspectives on the science and art of ceramics, images from these collaborations are submitted…
Students perform "Wake Me When Its Time" on stage

Aug 6, 2025

Explaining Science through Theater

“The Theatre of Science Fiction and Science Fact” is a course created by Dahlia Nielsen (Assoc. Professor in NC State’s Department of Biological Sciences) and George Jack (Assoc. Professor of Humanities at Saint Augustine’s University), as part of NC State’s Biological Sciences Life Sciences First Year Program (LSC 170). Nielsen and Jack partner with NC…
Collage by Tatiana Veloso (NC State LAEP, 2024)

Aug 6, 2025

Envisioning Urban Futures

Envisioning Urban Futures is an annual symposium exploring bold and optimistic visions of cities of the near and distant future, both through technological/scientific and artistic/creative lenses. It is one of the signature programs of  the Long View Project (housed within NC State’s Climate and Sustainability Academy) and is organized by the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs,…
Flash Futures

Aug 6, 2025

Flash Futures

What if, in the future, cathedrals were also observatories? What would it be like to grow up alongside an AI pal that knew you like a soulmate? The Long View Project (based within NC State’s Climate and Sustainability Academy) collaborates with NC State’s University Theatre to offer “Flash Futures,” during a one-day script-writing intensive which…
Illustration by Jennifer M. Landin

Aug 6, 2025

Biology. Art. Education.

Jennifer Landin is a biologist, illustrator and science educator. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NC State University, Jennifer teaches biology to non-scientists and biological illustration to non-artists. Her teaching and research interests include: increasing awareness of biodiversity and evolution, sharing an appreciation for all wild life through visual arts and…
Graduate Student/Postdoc Graphics, 2nd Place Skylar Penney. LiDAR point cloud data converted into a colorized spline to determine areas of similar elevation.

Aug 6, 2025

Envisioning Research

Envisioning Research is NC State’s annual research image contest. Graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff submit images highlighting the beauty and importance of their research.  Images come from the lab bench and the field, both on campus and around the world.