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106 countries and counting: NC State’s world-renowned vermicompost expert

Chelsea Kellner

Job applicant waits in the career center.

Jun 19, 2016

Search is on for new department head, faculty

Recruitment has begun for 21 faculty and administrator positions in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, part of the new strategic hiring plan. 
Morgan Malone

May 18, 2016

Student Spotlight: Farm Life, Big City

Recent graduate Morgan Malone found an agriculture career path inside a bustling state capital. 
Wild blackberries in Hoffmann Forest.

May 12, 2016

Edible Plants Coming to Greenway

Edible plantings are in planning stages for campus trails, thanks to an innovative collaboration involving the Department of Horticultural Sciences. The project will be both a healthy eating resource and an educational tool. 
Mounted officer on horse, with her adviser.

May 3, 2016

Animal Science alum keeps peace on campus

Jeanne Miller puts her animal science degree to use in a way she had never imagined as an undergrad: she now patrols campus as a senior officer with the Mounted Unit of the NC State University Police Department. 
NC State student shows young boy a chick.

Apr 15, 2016

Farm Animal Days: Connecting agriculture and education

NC State University’s annual Farm Animal Days lets area children experience agriculture up close and hands on with the guidance of CALS experts. Field days are important because agriculture is crucial to the North Carolina economy – and more than two-thirds of that contribution is generated by farm animals. 
Two females with a dairy cow

Apr 9, 2016

Want an A? Help sell a cow.

Students from Professor Gary Gregory’s Livestock Merchandizing class ran an auction at the Beef Education Unit and sold about two dozen horses, cows, goats and sheep – for a final grade. Proceeds help cover operating expenses at the agriculture education units where the animals are raised. 
Industrial engineering graduate student Jazmine Davis zaps inefficiencies at food hubs and on the farm.

Apr 8, 2016

Engineering agriculture

For industrial engineering graduate student Jazmine Davis, interdisciplinary work in agriculture has been life-changing. 
Worm in hand

Feb 24, 2016

106 countries and counting: NC State’s world-renowned vermicompost expert

“There are 25,000 worms in that building behind you,” North Carolina State University’s extension specialist Rhonda Sherman says with a proud smile. It’s not a large-scale infestation; it’s good science at work.