Alumni and Friends

Jan 29, 2025

Macro Photo Lens Amplifies Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox

Frederick S. Baggett provides a thoughtful gift of a macro lens in support of the NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox, enabling the program to take close-up photos of plants.

Oct 18, 2024

Seed Your Future Horticulture Internship Surveys

These surveys will help determine barriers that students might have to completing an internship and determine what information students, faculty, administrators and employers need to increase participation in internships.

Mar 18, 2024

Kalmowitz’s Trailblazing Support of Horticulture

Join Kathie Kalmowitz, Ph.D. on March 20 by #GivingPack to support the Department of Horticultural Science graduate student trajectories and innovative plant research.

Feb 8, 2024

A ‘Berry’ Sweet Love Story

From meeting at NC State to traveling the world to rebuilding a family farm, CALS alumni Austin and Christina Wrenn do almost everything together, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Sep 8, 2022

A Little Help Goes a Long Way

The CALS Alumni and Friends Society Scholarship Endowment is awarded to CALS students who show financial need, as well as leadership potential. Meet this year’s recipients.

Sami Nickerson, Horticultural Science alumna and Pender Nursery Saleswoman.

May 19, 2022

Sami Nickerson: Nursery Knowledge to Plant Sales

Sami Nickerson, a spring 2022 alumna, moved nearly 1,000 miles from Thiensville, Wisconsin to NC State and discovered a new path and enthusiasm for plants.

Sep 23, 2021

Marlee Trandel: Research with Heart

Dr. Marlee Trandel is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Plant for Human Health Institute (PHHI) which focuses on plant production, physiology/postharvest physiology and plant cell wall chemistry. Trandel's doctoral candidate research into watermelon hollow heart disorder has recently gained recognition for advances in fruit tissue firmness.

Sep 21, 2021

2021 Horticultural Science Alumni Awards

The Department of Horticultural Science honored and congratulated distinguished alumni awardee Dr. Kathie Kalmowitz and young alumni award recipients, Dr. Alicain Carlson and Mr. Andrew Scruggs.

Apr 23, 2021

Dr. Williams Wins Iman Teaching Award

NC State adjunct professor, alumni, and Kansas State University distinguished teaching scholar of horticulture and natural resources, found a life inspired by her family’s large gardens and love of teaching. Recently, that work earned Wiliams the Iman Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching from Kansas State.

Mason Davis, Ag Institute alum, driving a front-end loader

Sep 2, 2020

Mason Davis Interns and Finds a New Pack

From a young age, I knew that I wanted to be involved in the green industry. After high school, I decided to continue my education at North Carolina State University where I am studying Horticulture Science and Ag Business Management.