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CEFS gets major grant and much mention
USDA has awarded the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) a grant of $3.9 million for a five-year project that will build supply lines to farms and fisheries for institutional and...
View ArticleProper punctuation for Webb Hall
Do not use commas (or dashes or parenthesis) to set off phrases with defining information. To determine if a clause contains defining information, remove it from the sentence and see if the sentence...
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Staff update
Dr. Devona L. Dixon has joined the Family and Consumer Sciences Department as an assistant professor in Fashion Merchandising and Design. Dixon received her doctorate in the social and psychological...
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Food science crews making news
With newspapers across the state providing such unsettling reports as "A new strain of norovirus could make this a busy year for the nasty intestinal disease [norovirus] (Raleigh News & Observer)...
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SAES leadership reservoir gets infusion
The most recent graduating class of the LEAD21 Program that provides leadership development for department chairs, and research and Extension administrators at land-grant institutions included Dr....
View ArticleGrowers can counter melon contamination concerns
Cantaloupe growers will have two opportunities to get in on a day-long (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) seminar designed to help producers learn to reduce the risks of food contamination, and also how to react to a...
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Copy wrongs
You may believe that purchasing a DVD or videotape gives you the right to duplicate it. Purchasing a DVD or videotape does not entitle the purchaser to make a copy of it; you have only purchased the...
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Spring is both planting and planning season for specialty crops
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) is making grant funding available for new projects that will help make specialty crops more competitive in the marketplace — a...
View Article$5k for the sweetie pie
The American Association of Candy Technologists (AACT) has a $5,000 scholarship — the John Kitt Memorial Scholarship— for a sophomore, junior or senior majoring in a food, chemical or biological...
View ArticleMore votes needed: A&T has dropped out of top 10
A&T has fallen to 18th in Home Depot's annual "Retool Your School" contest that gives students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of HBCUs an opportunity to line up financial support for a campus...
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No fooling: ticket sales begin April 1 and won't last long
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems — operated jointly by A&T, N.C. State and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to promote sustainable agriculture — is one of the...
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Ten grand for sustainable story that's most memorable
The journal Creative Nonfiction has set May 31 as the submission deadline for an essay contest — with a $10,000 prize — for a previously unpublished piece of 4,000 words or less that illuminates "The...
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Training for peddling pecks of pickled peppers one jar at a time
N.C. State University Cooperative Extension's Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences has a three-day training program for farm families with plans to add value to their cucumbers and...
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Research into training needs gets posterized
Dr. Paula Faulkner of the SAES teamed up with a colleague from Tuskegee University on a poster presentation for the American Association for Agricultural Education's (AAAE) Southern Region meeting,...
View ArticleWatauga County orchardist named 2013 Small Farmer-of-the-Year
The innovator behind Moretz Mountain Orchard in Watauga County — Bill Moretz — was named the 2013 Small Farmer-of-the-Year by The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T and honored at the annual...
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