I Am CALS: Gaebryl Vives

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.

a woman holds a tray of seedlings in a greenhouse

Jul 29, 2024

Cultivating African Indigenous Vegetables

Inspired to improve food security for her village in Kenya, Gladys Wanja Njeri is breeding African Indigenous Vegetables for nutritional value, climate adaptation, economic stability and beyond.

Chancellor Woodson wearing red commencement regalia, standing at a podium with an image of the Belltower in the background, and waving to the crowd

Jul 19, 2024

Woodson’s Work Is His Legacy

Chancellor Randy Woodson has announced his intention to retire by June 30, 2025, kicking off an era of transition for a campus that has thrived under his leadership. Woodson is the third-longest-serving leader in university history.

Dean Garey Fox visits the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clinton.

Jul 16, 2024

Research Road Trip

Dean Garey Fox hit the road this summer not for vacation at the beach or the mountains, but rather to tour several of the 18 Research Stations NC State operates in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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