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选择的领导者，植物科学倡议有望解决问题

2017年8月9日职员

这是遗传学。这是机器人技术。这是大数据。

随着本周宣布新聘用的发射总监的消息，它即将滚动。

Entomologist, agricultural biotechnology business professional and commodity leader Stephen Briggs is now signed on to make this one-of-a-kind plant sciences research enterprise, housed in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University, a reality.

布里格斯说：“我相信我们的利益相关者的愿景可以是世界上农业的硅谷。”“我们可以在几代人的农业上打个标志。”

Briggs steps in at a critical time for the interdisciplinary, multi-partner initiative. In less than three years, the NC PSI has transitioned from a “big idea” to a highly anticipated center for plant sciences innovation. With the broad support of North Carolina’s agricultural community, the initiative will break ground on its state-of-the-art facility in 2019, with doors opening in fall 2021.

”Today we take a giant step forward with leadership in the NC PSI,” CALS Dean Richard Linton said. “I have great confidence that Steve’s experience will help guide us as we strategically move forward, both programmatically and in building our new world class facility.”

Why Briggs?

CALS chose Briggs as launch director after an exhaustive international search by Arris Partners. As the launch director, Briggs will assemble the inaugural research project teams and develop partnerships that will enable NC PSI to achieve its goal of making North Carolina a world leader in plant sciences. He will create organizational principles, oversee construction of the Plant Sciences Research Complex and raise operational support funds.

“Bringing a research operation like NC PSI to life has a lot of complexities,” NC Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten said. “It was important that we hire the right person with roots in agribusiness management and a deep understanding of how to transfer scientific breakthroughs into solutions for our farmers.”

Wooten说，这正是他们在Briggs中发现的。

布里格斯的经验既广泛又深刻。他最近是南达科他州小麦种植者的农艺和公司营销高级副总裁，这是一家13亿美元的合作社。在那里，布里格斯负责战略规划，沟通，农艺销售和营销以及行业和政府关系。

在此之前，他的履历包括在巴斯夫这样的主要行业参与者中的工作 - 他与NC State作为土地授予大学的使命背后的精神有着早期的联系：Briggs开始了他在伊利诺伊大学的扩展昆虫学家的职业生涯。

什么是PSI？

Led by NC State and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, NC PSI represents the next generation of public-private partnerships, enlisting researchers, policy-makers and growers to work together to support the future of life on our planet.

这initiative will bring engineers, biologists, crop and soil scientists, plant breeders, mathematicians, social scientists and researchers from other disciplines under one roof in a new state-of-the-art facility on NC State’s Centennial Campus to find solutions to looming global challenges that are too complex for a simple, single-discipline answer.

“我们不仅要做经典的植物科学，还将纳入科学和技术的所有新领域，” Cals Research研究史蒂夫·洛梅尔（Steve Lommel）说。“史蒂夫·布里格斯（Steve Briggs）具有理想的技能。…他组装了团队，开展了大型跨学科项目，并且是一位出色的经理和沟通者。”

为什么要psi？

需要新的，更好的科学才能使全州的农业增长，这导致了北卡罗来纳州农场局等合作伙伴的早期支持，该局资助了“非常关键的”发射总监职位。

“Technology is rapidly changing the face of agriculture, not only from the perspective of equipment, satellite and precision, but also at a cellular level with biology, plant pathogens and soil,” Briggs said. “Now is a great time to jump in, to be part of something that will make an impact for generations.”

Why CALS?

北卡罗来纳州被认为全国第三大多样化的国家. It produces — and therefore tests — a tremendous range of agricultural crops.
CALS及其政府合作伙伴北卡罗来纳州农业和消费者服务部经营18个研究站的网络where field trials are conducted in a range of soil types and climates.
通过大学的该州所有100个县的合作推广中心, farmers have direct access to information and counsel about the latest developments in agricultural science and technology.
NC State is located in the Research Triangle, which is世界上五名农业生物科学行业领导者中有三名的所在地以及50多个生命科学公司。
巴特尔纪念研究所（Battelle Memorial Institute“promising convergence of assets poised to take advantage of large-scale expanding markets.”

How Did We Get Here?

In 2013, CALS Dean Richard Linton conducted a series of listening sessions across the state to help shape the vision and future of the college. These sessions highlighted the need for new and greater plant science research and innovation.
In 2014, the North Carolina General Assembly approved funding for an economic feasibility study for an emerging Plant Sciences Research Initiative.
2015年，北卡罗来纳州大会批准将NC PSI纳入选民通过的全州债券全民公决。全民投票指定了8500万美元的债券资金，用于在百年纪念校园建造的1.6亿美元的植物科学研究院。
2016年8月，CALS宣布金叶基金会的4500万美元赠款, the largest single investment ever made in CALS — and among the largest in the university’s history.
2017年5月，有四个与学术界代表，政府和工业界代表宣布的工作组宣布key recommendationsdeveloped over months of collaboration, a road map to guide the initiative’s next steps.

我们去哪？

布里格斯有一个整体的看法。他的愿景：奠定基础，使NC State成为植物科学学科研究和外展的著名大学。该计划是在多个学院和部门之间工作，并与各种关键的农业利益相关者合作，以组装和招募顶级教师，以进行填补发现管道所需的高素质。这将使NC PSI能够实现其为农业生产和食品加工渠道提供增值产品，服务和解决方案的目标。

布里格斯说：“我很高兴能成为使这一愿景实现的过程的一部分。”“北卡罗来纳州及其合作伙伴正在做的事情，不仅对NC农业，而且对全球农业产生持久的影响。”