Students
Digging Into Dutch Agriculture
A group of CALS students recently expanded their agricultural knowledge and cultural horizons during a seven-day study abroad course in the Netherlands and Germany where they learned about horticultural crop production techniques, agribusiness and agricultural policy, and sustainable farming.
NC State Students Develop Award-Winning Nutritious Snack Bar for Kenyan Schools
The Kijani Bar, a snack bar developed by NC State students, is bringing new hope to the fight against childhood malnutrition in Kenya. Designed for the Institute of Food Technologists Student Association’s (IFTSA) Developing Solutions for Developing Countries competition, the bar is packed with African indigenous vegetables and aims to provide essential nutrients to schoolchildren while supporting local agriculture in Kenya.
Benefits of North Carolina Adopting African Indigenous Leafy Vegetables
Adopting African Indigenous Leafy Vegetables in North Carolina offers a triple-win: economic opportunity for growers, improved nutrition for communities, and a more sustainable, resilient agricultural system. With proper extension support, marketing channels, and education, these vegetables could become a valuable asset to North Carolina’s diverse and evolving agricultural landscape.
Institute Cultivates Tomorrow’s Food and Ag Leaders
In early April, 70 teens took part in the 2025 North Carolina Youth Institute. The two-day event gave them the chance to interact with university students and faculty members, to take part in experiential workshops and to share their ideas for addressing global challenges in food, agriculture and sustainability.
Simon Fraher: Sweetpotato Genetics PostDoc
Simon Fraher is a highly skilled vegetable breeder finishing his doctorate this spring semester with NC State University’s Sweetpotato and Potato Breeding and Genetics Programs. His focus is to benefit the sweetpotato community with molecular marker development for guava root knot nematodes and pioneering genomic selection research. These breeding efforts bolster North Carolina’s economy as a leading sweetpotato producer and help address food and nutritional insecurity in tropical regions around the world.
Crop Water Dynamics Research in Japan
SUMMER 2024 Tommy Godwin Increasing global temperatures have made breeding crops for drought tolerance an utmost priority for protecting global food security. However, crop water use dynamics are poorly understood especially in regards to physiology and plant hydraulics. In order […]
Gibbon iPS Cell Research in Japan
SUMMER 2024 Jacob Baker To compare dynamics of chromatin states during NSC differentiation between humans and chimpanzees, I tried to make DNA sequencing libraries for Assay for Transposase Accessible Chromatin and sequencing (ATAC-seq). To this end, human and chimpanzee iPSCs […]
Almond Composition Research in Spain
SUMMER 2024 Zoe Tobien During my two month stay in Valencia, Spain, I got assigned to do research on the comparison of almonds from the U.S. (California), Spain (Valencia), and Italy. I ran various tests to determine many aspects about […]
Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Applications of Carob in the Food Industry Research in Spain
SUMMER 2024 Rebecca Shenk Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is an agricultural product prevalent around the Mediterranean. The fruit of these trees, in the form of seed pods, are commonly used to produce flour/powder, syrup, or chocolate alternatives. More than 135,000 […]
Cancer Treatment Research in Japan
SUMMER 2024 Sophia Nunez During my summer in Japan, I studied at Nagoya University with the Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics run by Dr. Kenji Ichiyanagi. This research focused on the role of transposable elements (TEs) in the innate […]