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.

A fashion merchandising and design major in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences is scoring big at this year’s NBA’s All-Star game – with her art.

N.C. A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences will receive nearly $2 million to test environmentally friendly growing techniques, improve educational training on food allergies, strengthen nutritional science programs and more – six projects in all – as part of a competitive grant program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.