Author: Dave Caldwell

May 10, 2012

YOU DECIDE: Is government getting larger or smaller?

With the record levels of spending, especially at the federal level, and sky-high government deficits and debts, how could anyone make the case that government has been shrinking? Mike Walden explains how. 

May 10, 2012

North Carolina State University Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development

Julie Willoughby, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science, and Steve Lommel, William Neal Reynolds professor of plant pathology, have received a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grant to develop a seed treatment method that will aid subsistence farmers in protecting their crops. 

May 4, 2012

CALS faculty members recognized by Alumni Association, Office of Outreach and Extension

Five College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty members are winners of 2012 North Carolina State University Alumni Association faculty awards. 

Apr 30, 2012

Schulman to receive research award

Dr. Michael Schulman, William Neal Reynolds Professor and Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, will receive the 2012 Excellence in Research award given by the Rural Sociological Society at the society’s annual meeting in July in Chicago. 

Apr 30, 2012

CALS is Diversity Award winner

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was recognized for efforts to promote equity, diversity and inclusion by the North Carolina State University Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity with a 2012 Outstanding College/Division Diversity Award. 

Apr 27, 2012

YOU DECIDE: Can we do anything about gas prices?

There are few parts to our economy that get people riled up more than rising gas prices. But what, if anything, can we do about the escalating cost of gas. Mike Walden discusses. 

Apr 25, 2012

Allen Foegeding named IFT editor-in-chief

Dr. Allen Foegeding, William Neal Reynolds Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, has been named editor-in-chief of the Institute of Food Technologists’ monthly peer-reviewed publications. 

Apr 23, 2012

Dr. Clyde Chesney, former Extension administrator, dies

Dr. Clyde E. Chesney, former North Carolina Cooperative Extension district director who from 1998 until his retirement in 2009 was an administrator at Tennessee State University, died April 18 in Nashville, Tenn. 

Apr 16, 2012

International Programs dean named

Dr. John Sabella, adjunct professor in the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, has been named Interim Assistant Dean for International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 

Apr 13, 2012

YOU DECIDE: How important are state cost-of-living differences?

The cost of living varies by where you live. Mike Walden explains why it's important to understand and be aware of differences in the cost of living.