News Archive

Mar 31, 2025

Students Build Industry Connections

Stop by Witherspoon Student Center, and you’ll find it bustling with students. Last Friday, a group of graduate students hosted their own Industry Fair, with representatives in attendance from eight local biotechnology companies.  

Mar 13, 2025

The Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service helps a CALS researcher open up “a bottleneck of scientific progress”

Sometimes small problems lead to big solutions. When Plant and Microbial Biology researcher Orlando Arguello-Miranda needed a central place to store large image files for a 50-person workshop, he asked the Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service (RFS) for help. Simple enough, right? 

Mar 6, 2025

Optimizing Corn Production for Greater Efficiency

From juicy corn on the cob and crunchy tortilla chips to livestock feed and ethanol for gasoline, corn is an essential crop for many of the products of daily life.  

Apr 3, 2024

CALS 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awardee: Lisa Metzger

Lisa Metzger, Microbiology doctoral student, is a recipient of the CALS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. 

Apr 3, 2024

New Talk Series: PMB Shorts 

Welcome to our new series PMB Shorts! These are 20 minute, non-technical talks created to open the floor for anyone in the department to share their knowledge. 

Apr 3, 2024

Four Students Receive First Graduate Student Endowment for N.C. PSI

Four graduate students have been awarded the inaugural Norma L. Trolinder N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative Graduate Student Endowment. 

Apr 3, 2024

Department of Plant & Microbial Biology Newsletter – Fall 2023

The Department of Plant & Microbial Biology introduces new members with our annual fall ice cream social! 

Apr 3, 2024

Congratulations to our Spring Graduates!

On May 6th, 2023 we had a lovely ceremony celebrating our graduates in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology. 

Apr 3, 2024

2023 Plant and Microbial Biology Departmental Awards and Recognitions

Check out our spring newsletter and read about these student and departmental awards! 

Sep 12, 2023

In Memoriam Walter Dobrogosz

We are saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Walter Dobrogosz, a distinguished professor of microbiology here at NC State.