News

Feb 13, 2012

N.C. Cooperative Extension, N.C. Farm Bureau team present pesticide safety workshops

N.C. Cooperative Extension and the N.C. Farm Bureau Safety Team are partnering to help growers train Spanish-speaking farm workers on pesticide safety. Six upcoming workshops offered across North Carolina will prepare growers to use the Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit, a resource based on the latest pesticide information for North Carolina that also can be tailored to a specific crop and workplace. 

Feb 13, 2012

Scientists lay groundwork for cabbage breeding program

KANNAPOLIS, NC – Two scientists with the N.C. State University Plants for Human Health Institute at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis are studying more than 300 cabbage varieties as part of the initial phase in a cabbage breeding program. 

Feb 13, 2012

The essential economic question

Why does the discipline of economics exist? Hear what N.C. State University economist Mike Walden tells beginning students as he explains the essential economic question. 

Feb 12, 2012

Biodiversity project maps urban ants

An innovative project from the CALS Department of Biology is tapping into the curiosity of young and old -- and all ages in between -- in an attempt to map the ants living in urban areas across the United States. 

Feb 11, 2012

Healthy Connections

CALS graduate student Amanda Draut and fellow Kannapolis Scholars host conference to improve communication about childhood obesity. 

Feb 11, 2012

It's Muscadine Time!

A grape smoothie is just one of many products with powerful potential, thanks to a CALS partnership with muscadine growers. 

Feb 10, 2012

April Wynn chosen for Preparing the Professoriate program

As a CALS doctoral candidate in genetics and one of the newest fellows of N.C. State University’s Preparing the Professoriate program, April Wynn is a giant step closer to living her dream. 

Feb 10, 2012

Bringing science to life

It’s an exciting time in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a time when researchers are rapidly advancing our understanding of plants, animals, people and the world they live in – and a time when this knowledge is generating innovative solutions to some of the greatest challenges that face our state, nation and world. 

Feb 10, 2012

Coming in April: ‘Stewards of the Future’ research conference

Nobel Laureate Dr. Phillip A. Sharp and Juan Enriquez of Excel Venture Management will headline the conference “Stewards of the Future: Research for Human Health and Global Sustainability.”