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Happy Holidays From AIF

🎄🔬 Happy Holidays from the Analytical Instrumentation Facility! 🔬🎄   In the spirit of joy and festive cheer, Our team sends wishes to all, far...

Space-Grown Secrets: How Microgravity Alters Plant Cell Walls

What happens to plants when they are grown in space? One thing that happens is that cell walls are modified to fit for the new...

Toby Tung Wins Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Congratulations to our Instrumentation and IT Manager, Toby Tung, for winning the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award! Toby “The Wizard” Tung: The Man,...

Dr. Chris Winkler Wins Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Congratulations to our TEM Lab Manager, Chris Winkler, for winning the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award!   Chris Winkler is a lab manager...

50-in-50: AIF Challenge

[updated 6/10/2021]   CONGRATULATIONS to the AIF lab managers for completing this challenge in just 43 days! The Talos and the Verios were the top two labs...

Staff Spotlight: Fred Stevie

Fred Stevie is in his 20th year as a staff member for AIF. He is responsible for X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, works with Focused...