NC State’s faculty clusters reimagine the future of interdisciplinarity at NC State.

Our clusters bring together today’s brightest academic minds to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges and opportunities.

Dr. Randy Woodson
Chancellor, NC State University

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A History of Interdisciplinary Excellence

See how we successfully developed our faculty cluster-hiring program.

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Supporting Our Faculty

Strategic Growth

We’re reaping results from several rounds of faculty cluster hiring.

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Research Meets Practice

Our clusters increase our capacity for innovation that impacts all of NC State, and reaches beyond campus walls to create change in a wide variety of disciplines.

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Campus Collaboration

The NC State University Libraries provides a network of research, teaching and outreach support for all cluster faculty.

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Outstanding Faculty

At NC State, world-class academic minds come together to solve problems through interdisciplinary research.

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William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professors Announced

Twelve professors in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were recently named William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professors.

Funding awarded to study “microbiome stewardship”!

This article discusses the work of a team of researchers including Mallory Choudoir, a member of the Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities cluster in NC State’s Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program.

How microscopic fungi could help to make crops drought-proof

In this article, Christine Hawkes, a member of the Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities cluster in NC State’s Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program, talks about the plant mycobiome being the next frontier for agricultural science.