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Hassan’s Hopeful Horticulture

Department of Horticulture

David and Mary Peele

Mar 8, 2022

In Memory of Mary

David and Mary Peele named a greenhouse in the NC State Plant Sciences Building to honor Mary’s love of horticulture. After Mary passed, David named a second greenhouse to honor her. 
Craig Yencho gives a presentation at a recent field day

Oct 29, 2021

Protecting Our State’s New Rural Cash Crop

The true profit potential of sweetpotatoes has been held back by an aggressive and invasive pest. NC State’s Craig Yencho will lead a $5 million grant-funded project to fight it. 
A man in a garden setting

Dec 28, 2019

Horticulture Professor Paying it Forward

Professor Todd Wehner and his wife DelMarie created the Wehner Horticulture Fellowship Endowment to assist NC State graduate students interested in horticulture studies. 
Horticulture's Sarah Hassan in front of a brick wall, smiling, at CALS.

Mar 27, 2019

Hassan’s Hopeful Horticulture

A fateful tour of Kilgore Hall rerouted Sarah Hassan's career path from medicine to horticulture.