Category: Alumni
Belk launches spring collection designed by A&T fashion alumna
A 2023 North Carolina A&T graduate is helping Belk’s Crown & Ivy clothing line celebrate its 10th anniversary this spring with a new line of women’s wear available online and in stores.
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CAES Alumna’s Nonprofit Growing STEM Success
Keli Christopher, Ph.D., is focused on growing STEM success stories.
At North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 1998, Christopher found her place among other bright and talented Black scholars. Today, as the founding CEO of STEM Greenhouse in her native Michigan, Christopher has built a space where children of color can grow into the next generation of STEM professionals.
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‘I live for Homecoming’: CAES cookout celebrates 97th annual GHOE
Aggies of every age, generation, and discipline came together to connect and celebrate the “Greatest Homecoming On Earth” during the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences’ annual GHOE cookout.
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New fellowship sets Kortni Blalock ‘23 on Foreign Agricultural Service career path
Kortni Blalock ‘23 found out two days before Christmas last year what she would be doing in the fall — and perhaps for the rest of her life.
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Aggie active: Free People launches N.C. A&T inspired clothing line designed by fashion alum
A new line of Aggie activewear apparel designed by an alumna of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s fashion merchandising and design program is about to fly off the shelves.
Read MoreA voice for farmers: DeShon Cromartie, ’01, ’03, rises through the ranks of the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation
The month after he graduated from high school, DeShon Cromartie came to a fork in the road.
One fork led the JROTC cadet to the military, a career path well trodden by several other family members before him. The other led to agriculture — a familiar route for a young man who had been doing daily farm chores since age 9.
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The Fight to Save Farmland
A number of factors — development, climate change, energy production, the retirement of older farmers, the rising price of land and more — pose grave dangers to agricultural land. If projections hold true, the United States could lose farm and ranch acreage by 2040 that’s nearly the size of South Carolina.
Read MoreKyha Williams ‘97 takes animal science degree to Duke research labs
Read this page Stop reading The familiar voice on the phone changed the life of Kyha D. Williams, DVM. It was 2005, and life was good in Orlando. Williams, who had graduated from N.C. A&T eight years before, was working as a...
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Aggie Alumna Smallwood ’18 Founds Business to Pay It Forward
Arneisha Smallwood, center, founder of Agriculture is Life, joins Lauren Blackwell, right, and...
Read MoreHonoring a pioneer: Rochelle Arrington ‘87, the first Black woman to teach agriculture in North Carolina, receives the Order of the Long Leaf Pine
Rochelle Arrington wanted to take an agriculture class in high school not because she had a deep love for farming. Rather, she signed up for the course to stir up her guidance counselor. It was the late ‘70s, and boys were...
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