CALS Departments & Units

Your Connection to Internal Resources

The following sites are managed by each department and unit, and contain information and resources relevant to the internal CALS community.

Administrative Units

Initiatives, Centers and Institutes

Academic Departments

Administrative Units

Academic Programs

Advancement

Business Operations

CALS IT

Communications

Human Resources

Extension

Initiatives, Centers and Institutes

Agricultural Institute

Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS)

N.C. Food Innovation Lab

N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative (PSI)

North Carolina Food Animal Initiative

Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI)

Academic Departments

A few different hands holding a plant.

Agricultural and Human Sciences

Farmer heads to a field on a Rowan County farm outside Salisbury.

Agricultural and Resource Economics

animal science skeleton

Animal Science

Applied Ecology

Applied Ecology

Letitia Santos, a graduate student in biological and agricultural engineering and at 2024 FFAR Fellow, uses remotely sensed data and machine learning techniques to measure, monitor and report weed and soil conditions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Students work at the CALS Agroecology farm off Lake Wheeler Road.

Crop and Soil Sciences

Entomology and Plant Pathology

Ron Cottle of Cottle Farms in Faison, NC (right) and Dr. Keith Harris, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, check on muscadine grapes in the field.

Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences

CALS Researcher Ricardo Hernandez and student Mark Watson, who leads the vertical farming club, work with lettuce plants at the Horticulture field lab near the Arboretum.

Horticultural Sciences

Graduate and post-doctoral students remain on campus to complete their research in Molecular and Structural Biochemistry during the fall 2020 semester.

Molecular and Structural Biochemistry

Researchers Qing Ma, Xiang Liu, Dr. Jenny Xiang and Dr. Deyu Xie work with dogwood plants in the Phytotron.

Plant and Microbial Biology

Prestage Department of Poultry Science