February 2014

Feb 12, 2014

Handling with CARE

The healing power of pets is shared by Pre-Vet Club students in an award-winning community service partnership with CARE NC. 

Feb 12, 2014

Inspired by A.S.P.I.R.E.

The pilot year is successful for a program developed to help improve rural students’ college entrance exam scores – and encourage their pursuit of majors in agriculture and life sciences. 

Feb 12, 2014

A Legacy of Leadership

North Carolina’s Extension and Community Association celebrates 100 years of home demonstration programs. 

Feb 12, 2014

College Profile: C. Michael Williams

This scientist brings research, teaching and private industry experience – plus a knack for diplomacy and a problem-solving approach – to his new job leading the Prestage Department of Poultry Science. 

Feb 12, 2014

Research to focus on redhorse, Pee Dee River

Scientists from N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will lead an effort to better understand the impact that changes in habitat and water quality are having on fish,… 

Feb 12, 2014

Brevard high school students’ research wins accolades

Through a 4-H-public schools partnership in Transylvania County, Brevard High School sophomores Abby Williams and Carly Onnink conducted the type of research that professors says they expect to find in a university laboratory. Their topic: kudzu bug pheromones. 

Feb 12, 2014

‘A rebirth of agriculture’: Extension helps unemployed veteran launch sustainable business, giving new life to an old family farm

When Robert Elliott imagines his future as a farmer, he sees a large operation with a nice market where customers can buy affordable, sustainably produced vegetables, fruit, chickens, turkeys and more. While it's just a dream right now, Elliott is making fast progress since the day when he found himself an unemployed veteran with no job prospects. He credits the support and knowledge he’s gotten from North Carolina Cooperative Extension. 

Feb 12, 2014

Piedmont Farm School helps small farmers get started

Through farm tours, business planning workshops and other sessions that are part of Cooperative Extension's popular Piedmont Farm School, new and aspiring farmers gain the knowledge and skills they need to be successful. 

Feb 12, 2014

Hands-on Nursery provides a profitable and educational partnership

What began as an innovative new teaching model nearly 10 years ago has evolved into the Hands-on Nursery, a full-fledged operation run almost entirely by students in Dr. Helen Kraus’ nursery management and nursery production classes in N.C. State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 

Feb 12, 2014

Golden Corral partners with North Carolina 4-H to give military kids a free week of camping fun

‘The week of a lifetime,” “A blessing,” and “A 100 on a scale of 1 to 10”: These are just a few of the things that young campers are saying about a unique experience born in North Carolina, with help of 4-H specialists at N.C. State University.