CERSA Goes Global With Two Summer Programs

Sep 12, 2024

CERSA Goes Global With Two Summer Programs

Two workshops held this summer by NC State University’s Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture (CERSA) brought 13 participants from five countries to the United States to learn more…

Juniper Level Botanic Garden gazebo and creek

Sep 9, 2024

Conservation, Education and Beauty

With Tony Avent quickly approaching retirement, his gift of the Juniper Level Botanic garden to the JC Raulston Arboretum inspired NC State to establish an endowment with an ambitious $20 million goal to maintain the 28-acre research garden and its massive plant data collection.

Ellen White, blueberry genetics undergraduate researcher

Sep 6, 2024

Trademarks of Good Blueberry Research

Hawai’i native and award-winning undergraduate researcher, Ellen White, is working with NC State’s Blueberry Genetics and Genomics Lab to create protocols for patenting blueberries.

Aug 16, 2024

I Am CALS: Gaebryl Vives

Agricultural science student Gaebryl Vives has found a growing purpose working as a program assistant at NC State Extension’s Briggs Avenue Community Garden, which provides fresh produce to people facing food insecurity.

Cal Lewis standing in a polytunnel filled with raspberry plants

Aug 16, 2024

Breaking Berry Boundaries

Horticultural science alumnus Cal Lewis is leading the way for raspberry growers in North Carolina thanks to a partnership with NC State Extension.

Aug 16, 2024

Food, Fiber and Functional Beauty

The NC State Plant Breeding Consortium addresses global challenges in food security, nutrition and agricultural sustainability by cultivating high-yielding, disease-resistant plant breeds.

Group of people posing in front of a farm stand

Aug 7, 2024

Engaging Youth in Agriculture, Both Near and Far

Liz Driscoll, a youth development specialist with College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently traveled to Kenya with a team from CALS to explore partnerships to support agriculture in the east African nation.

Portion of a solar panel against a blue sky with clouds.

Aug 7, 2024

Partnership Seeds Two Agricultural Sensor Projects

A new partnership among NC State University’s Institute for Connected Sensor Systems, N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science has provided seed funding for two interdisciplinary…

Aug 2, 2024

Kirby, Monks Named Interim Co-Directors of NC State Extension

Sarah Kirby and David Monks will become the interim associate deans and directors of NC State Extension when Richard Bonanno departs at the end of August.

Jul 30, 2024

Alumna Helps Develop First Seedless Blackberry

CALS alumna Lauren Redpath has leveraged her doctorate in horticultural science to help cultivate the world’s first seedless blackberry.

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