Category: AAEAE
Opening Doors to Agribusiness: New Center Focuses on Technology, Entrepreneurship
André Davis is excited to see the launch of the Agriculture Business Innovation Center (ABIC) at N.C. A&T. “I know that it’s going to help benefit me,” said Davis, owner of Drozik’s Urban Farm in High Point, North Carolina. “I’m looking forward to it because (the ABIC team has) that drive or that initiative that I need to get me to the next level.”
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Educators Learn to Connect Agriculture, STEM for Youths
Efforts to insert agriculture into children’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education are gaining steam. Or STEA(g)M, as one N.C. A&T program calls it.
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There’s A Buzz About Kamal Bell ’15 and His Popular Book
Farmer, teacher, father, mentor, public speaker: All of these labels apply to Kamal Bell. So do beekeeper, community builder and, now, published author. The two-time graduate of North Carolina A&T recently published a book about beekeeping for children that is generating buzz for himself and his farm. He came back to A&T this spring to read the book to N.C. A&T’s youngest students at the Child Development Lab.
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Legacy of Empowerment: Antoine Alston Celebrates 25 Years in Aggieland
Twenty-five years an Aggie, 49 years circling the Earth. A myriad of academic and professional accomplishments as a modern cornerstone to the nation’s largest historically Black college and university. To Antoine Alston, Ph.D., North Carolina A&T is more than a place: it’s a calling.
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Arthur P. Bell Preserved History, Worked for Future Generations
The late Arthur P. Bell set a high standard for those treading his path.
“Dr. Bell is a pioneer, a legend,” said Antoine Alston, associate dean for academics of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at N.C. A&T State University. “He represented, to me, what it means to be an African American scholar and man. He passed the torch on to me, and I’m going to make sure the torch stays lit,” said Alston, who studied under Bell’s tutelage.
“Ms. Frizzle of Agriculture,” Tamirrah Cox ‘22, shows young students ag’s fun side
Tamirrah Cox and her son Huey get ready to plant in an episode of “Ag with Mrs. Cox.” Read this...
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The Student Perspective: CAES students join faculty, policymakers to discuss food security
(left to right) – Linda Anderson of Share the Harvest Food Bank; Guilford County...
Read MoreTwo CAES Students Chosen for North Carolina Governor’s HBCU Internship Program
Samaya Brooks Leonard Jackai Read this page Stop reading Two agribusiness and food industry management students are among the 36 students from nine of North Carolina’s historically Black colleges and universities selected to...
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