Author: Dee Shore

Aug 8, 2013

A new college education proposal

Financing a college education has become a big problem for many students as well as for governments, like North Carolina’s, that help fund higher education. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden explains the bold new idea for financing college education in Oregon. 

Aug 8, 2013

Past CALS deans honored at joint foundations expanded spring event

"Bridging the past to the future” was the theme when boards of foundations supporting N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences convened for a particularly special and historic joint meeting on April 10. 

Aug 8, 2013

CALS scientist honored as emerging scholar

Dr. Julie Hicks, a postdoctoral scholar and recent Ph.D. degree recipient from N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently won a top regional award for her research into the molecular-level processes involved in one of the world’s most important swine diseases. 

Aug 8, 2013

Graduate student’s discovery can enable tick population management

Doctoral student Ann Carr is hard at work developing ways to attract ticks so that the general population can avoid them. Under the direction of Department of Entomology professors Dr. Charles Apperson, Dr. Michael Roe and Dr. Coby Schal, Carr recently discovered that two chemicals – acetone and ammonium hydroxide – attract high numbers of the tick species Amblyomma americanum. The development of this chemical cocktail could open new doors for the screening and management of tick populations in North Carolina and beyond. 

Aug 8, 2013

Modernizing Food Safety

It’s been called the biggest change to food safety and farming practices in modern history. And though it’s been more two and a half years since the Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law, there is still much work to be done. The good news is that in North Carolina, organizations that support agriculture haven’t been sitting on their hands. Groups like CALS, the N.C. Farm Bureau and the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services have been active in helping to shape regulations and educate growers on how the Food Safety Modernization Act will affect the way they do business. 

Aug 8, 2013

Transforming the Future celebrated at CALS annual donor recognition

A snowy weekend did not daunt the more than 400 guests who attended the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ annual donor recognition event, Feb. 17. Among the hundreds assembled at N.C. State University’s McKimmon Center for the occasion were CALS donors, scholarship and professorship recipients, faculty members, alumni and students, along with university administrators. 

Aug 8, 2013

Speaking of Extension

North Carolina Cooperative Extension clients statewide tell how Extension is empowering them and providing solutions that have improved their lives. 

Aug 8, 2013

2013 Arb Gala is an elegant Asian Reflection

The April 28 Gala in the Garden, the annual garden party and fundraiser at JC Raulston Arboretum, came with cool temperatures and April showers, yet it was as magical and beautiful as ever. This year’s theme was “An Asian Reflection.” 

Aug 8, 2013

Unique Reflections

Dick Thompson ’39 was a sophomore at N.C. State when he first saw Yates Mill. His visit there brought back memories of grist mills he'd seen as a child. And it inspired his commitment to the mill and surrounding land, now a historic site and Wake County park. 

Aug 8, 2013

A passion for his work takes Cal Lewis to the state growers’ Hall of Fame

With his innovative and progressive style, alumnus Cal Lewis has been named to the N.C. Vegetable Growers Association's Hall of Fame.