Coby Schal Wins Award for Bed Bug Baiting System

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Coby Schal, professor of entomology at North Carolina State University, is one of the the first recipients of NC State’s Chancellor’s Innovation Fund award for his development of a new bed bug baiting system. His project will receive up to $75,000 in seed money that will be used gather additional data, conduct market research, and build prototypes in order to make the technology more marketable. The award is meant to bring technological breakthroughs one step closer to becoming reality.

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Watch an interview with Coby Schal below: