poultry science

Feb 5, 2015

High-Order Thinking

With help from a CALS scientist, students from one of the most underserved counties in the state will operate a biotech company right out of their high-school lab. 

Apr 10, 2014

N.C. State’s Farm Animal Days draws multitudes

The annual opportunity to meet and greet farm animals is hosted by N.C. State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and its departments of Animal Science, Prestage Poultry Science, and Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences. 

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. 

Aug 9, 2013

CALS enters new research partnership with multinational animal health company

As agribusiness professionals from Latin America gathered in Raleigh in early August for the first Symposium on Emerging Issues in Poultry Nutrition and Meat Production, N.C. State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences officially entered a groundbreaking research partnership with a multinational animal health company. 

Feb 7, 2013

Special People, Special Gift

Bill and Marsha Prestage share memories of the growth of their company – and their reasons for making a historic gift to N.C. State. 

Feb 7, 2013

Extension, teaching will play roles in research grant to combat salmonella

Drs. Hosni Hassan and Matt Koci, from N.C. State’s departments of microbiology and poultry science, respectively, are leading the charge on a new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to stamp out salmonella. 

Apr 2, 2012

Farm Animal Days puts children, animals in proximity

March may have come in like a lamb this year, but for more than 10,000 children and adults who attended Farm Animal Days, it went out like chickens and turkeys and horses and cows, rabbits, pigs and, well, there were lambs too. 

Apr 2, 2012

Protecting poultry from Salmonella

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers are working to develop a vaccine that would protect poultry – and by extension people who eat chickens and eggs – from Salmonella.