By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/brown-b-knob-header.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photograph shows an infant's hand being held gently between the thumb and forefinger of an adult's hand"></div>Researchers have designed an injectable microgel to reduce bleeding in infants who require surgical care. In an animal model, the microgel reduced bleeding by at least 50%. |News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/lenovoesports1500-scaled-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Chancellor Kevin Howell and Lenovo's Ryan McCurdy."></div>Game on: A naming-level gift from technology giant Lenovo will bolster the growing momentum and profile of NC State’s program in esports. Lenovo’s transformational commitment includes substantial financial support for both an endowment and a current-use fund targeting NC State Esports programming, staffing, equipment or other needs. There also is an in-kind component to the gift, with… |News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/bandodkar-organoid-2026-header-1500-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="a teardrop-shaped structure is suspended from a clear plastic surface over a series of what look like test tubes"></div>Researchers have demonstrated a new class of low-cost, scalable sensors that can be used to monitor electrical activity in human cerebral organoids. |News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/kochcrew.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Christina Koch and her fellow crew members prepare to board their Orion spacecraft atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket as part of a demonstration test in 2025."></div>Three-time NC State graduate Christina Koch and her three Artemis II crewmates will blast off to the moon as early as Wednesday evening. |News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/christina-koch-with-nc-state-students.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Christina Koch mingles with students during a visit to NC State."></div>Ahead of her moon-bound NASA mission, explore a timeline of Christina Koch’s life and career. |News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/kochopener.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Christina Koch sits at a table with pictures of previous space flights behind her" loading="lazy"></div>In 2016, NC State magazine profiled Christina Hammock Koch ’01, ’02 MS as she had been named to NASA’s 21st class of astronauts. Revisit her story as this week she joins the Artemis II mission, NASA’s first trip to the moon in over five decades. |_from-newswire-collection-115, News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/bridge-team.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Two students, one speaking into a microphone, present research ideas." decoding="async"></div>The N.C. PSI’s BRIDGE Symposium provided a window into the bold ways graduate students are collaborating across academic fields to solve a range of agricultural challenges. |_from-newswire-collection-115, News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/030226-robotics-symposium-78.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="two students operate a humanoid robot" decoding="async"></div>At NC State’s first annual Robotics Symposium, faculty envision the College of Engineering at the forefront of a rapidly growing field. |_from-newswire-collection-115, News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/012026-battery-and-energy-storage-systems-symposium-07.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="man standing behind a podium on an elevated platform, left, speaking to a large group of seated people in a long and open meeting space" decoding="async"></div>The inaugural NC State Battery and Energy Storage Systems Symposium brought together faculty, researchers, industry partners and students to explore emerging applications in batteries and energy-storage technologies. |_from-newswire-collection-115, News
By ECE News<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/greenhousefeat.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Two people tending an array of colorful plants in a greenhouse" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>From the outside, the steel-and-glass structure on top of NC State’s Plant Sciences Building looks like an ordinary greenhouse, but inside the computer-controlled facility, researchers work year-round to tackle big agricultural challenges.