Category: Family & Consumer Sciences
Food Olympics Give Students Chance to Create Next Food Sensation
With the timer set at 90 minutes, five teams of newly acquainted college students piled into the kitchen at N.C. A&T’s University Farm Pavilion to prepare their vision of the next commercially produced food or beverage.
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PBS-NC Features N.C. A&T Fashion Program in National HBCU Week Documentary
The fashion merchandising and design program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is taking its turn on the red carpet this month as PBS-North Carolina airs a documentary, “Fashion Forward,” highlighting the impact of Black fashion on culture.
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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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N.C. A&T Launches Nutrition and Dietetics Concentration in Master’s Degree Program
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is accepting applications for a new nutrition and dietetics concentration in its food and nutritional sciences master’s degree program. Classes will begin in spring 2026.
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Food Science Student Helps Bring Agriculture to Medicine with New Wound Dressing
A conversation over a meal at Panera Bread with one of her best friends led Mahshid Eghbali, a food and nutritional sciences master’s student at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University, on an unexpected journey into the medical supply field.
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College Graduates First Two Ph.D. Recipients
The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will celebrate a landmark event this week: awarding its first doctoral degrees in agriculture and environmental sciences to two students.
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Summit Encourages Black Students to Pursue Health Care Careers
Persistent falsehoods, like “Black people’s skin is thicker than white people’s,” are why more African Americans are needed in the medical field, state Sen. Natalie Murdock told students gathered at the Inspiring Futures Summit at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University.
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Why are HBCUs Important? Students Offer Breadth of Reasons
What makes historically Black Universities and colleges important?
That was the heart of a discussion among students from N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University, Bennett College and Winston-Salem State University at a Feb. 24 symposium in A&T’s Deese Ballroom. The event was sponsored by the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, N.C. A&T C.H.I.L.D. Up student club and Amazon.
‘The Mocha Gardener’ Ashlie Thomas Finds Food, Health Connection
It’s a quest to help her family and her community fight chronic illness. In a journey to promote better nutrition and implement strategies to combat food insecurity in the state of North Carolina, one of those stops includes North Carolina A&T State University, where she will be graduating with her master’s degree this fall.
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A&T, NCSU Students Join to Compete in “Master Chef”-Style Contest
Fifteen minutes. That’s how much time students from N.C. A&T State University and N.C. State University had to come up with a winning granola recipe at the Food Science Olympics, held Sept. 17 at the University Farm Pavilion.
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Love the Hair You Wear Event Showcases Beauty, Empowerment, Natural Hair
Empowerment was the root of the message at the Love the Hair You Wear event, a celebration of natural hair, at N.C. A&T this month.
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Child Development Lab is Top of the Class for Seventh Straight Year
N.C. A&T’s early childhood educational facility, the Chlld Development Laboratory, a part of the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences, has earned the highest marks from the state for a seventh straight year.
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