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Feb 28, 2025

Year 3 Seed Grant Request for Proposals

The Seed Grant Request for Proposals has been released and has a deadline of April 28, 2025. We encourage you to take this opportunity to actively showcase your research and to foster collaborations with another college within NC State University. This initiative aims to enhance interdisciplinary partnerships and innovation in research endeavors. Important DaysRFP Release Date: TODAY (February 28,…

Sep 16, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 2

Michael Dickey, Qingshan Wei, Coby Schal, and Jean Ristaino awarded seed grant from IConS to develop and validate new sensor technologies for plants.

Sep 9, 2024

Fall 2024 Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 1

Budhathoki-Uprety and Ware awarded seed grant from IConS to create next-gen optical biosensors by combining advanced materials and cutting-edge technology.
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Aug 8, 2024

Partnership Seeds Two Agricultural Sensor Projects

This is an article originally written by Dee Shore for for the NC Plant Sciences Initiative. A new partnership among NC State University’s Institute for Connected Sensor Systems, N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science has provided seed funding for two interdisciplinary research projects aimed at using sensors to advance agriculture. One project involves creating a…

Jun 24, 2024

Year 2 Seed Grant Request for Proposals

The Seed Grant Request for Proposals has been released and has a deadline of July 19, 2024. If you have a research idea to be supported by or to support a connected sensor system application but are looking for potential partners from other Colleges, please feel free to contact IConS leadership and we would be glad to connect you with relevant other PIs…
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Mar 1, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 3

After careful consideration of the many proposals we received in our first Seed Grant RFP, we chose three projects that align well with our mission to advance innovation in sensors and sensor systems, while providing unique interdisciplinary training for a graduate student team. Awardee PI Suresh Venkatesh (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) and…
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Feb 29, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 2

After careful consideration of the many proposals we received in our first Seed Grant RFP, we chose three projects that align well with our mission to advance innovation in sensors and sensor systems, while providing unique interdisciplinary training for a graduate student team. Awardee PIs Edgar Lobaton (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) and…

Feb 21, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 1

After careful consideration of the many proposals we received in our first Seed Grant RFP, we chose three projects that align well with our mission to advance innovation in sensors and sensor systems, while providing unique interdisciplinary training for a graduate student team. Awardee PIs Michael Kudenov (College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Brendan…