May News and Notes 2021

May 25, 2021

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Dining Hall Uses CAES-Grown Ingredients for Earth Day

Williams Dining Hall, operated by Sodexo, celebrated Earth Day on April 22 with a lunch menu that featured ingredients grown by the CAES.

The ingredients grown by Aggies included basil, oregano, red Russian kale, broccoli, cinnamon basil, sweet potatoes and ginger grown at the Urban Food Platform, Reid Greenhouse and the Student and Community Farm.

The Urban Food Platform is an outdoor small-scale urban food production system developed on the grounds surrounding the campus greenhouse. The 4,000-square-foot Reid Greenhouse has three bays with computerized environmental control. The 3-acre Student and Community Farm is an experiential learning space at the University Farm.

N&R Story Puts Sang in Spotlight

Shengmin Sang, Ph.D.

A May 21 story in the Greensboro News & Record featured the work of Professor Shengmin Sang, Ph.D., a researcher at N.C. A&T’s Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies in Kannapolis. Sang studies functional foods, including whole grains, ginger, tea and apples, that have potential health benefits.

Read the News & Record story: A&T professor leading research about how certain foods could be alternatives to medicine.

“Increasing evidence shows that many chronic diseases are preventable, and diet plays a very important role in disease prevention and treatment,” Sang told the newspaper. “My lab’s over-arching goal is to develop safe dietary regimens to prevent and/or treat the development of chronic illness without incurring the harmful side effects that occur with the use of so many of today’s pharmaceuticals.

“Studies show that the general public prefers dietary regimens, instead of drugs, for preventing or treating chronic diseases.”

Gamma Sigma Delta Inducts New Members

The N.C. A&T chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, recently inducted new members. The honor society encourages advancement and improvement in all branches of the agricultural sciences and agricultural industry.

Undergraduate Student Inductees

G’Shearia McNeil
Kiera Mabry
Andrew Gaddis
Chandler Dix
Samaria Bivens
Camryn Bailey
Larry Jones
Haylee L. May
Logan Modlin

Graduate Student Inductees

Ivana Pedroso
Raphael Ayivi
Kelvin Adrah
Samuel Adegoke
Victoria Tanoh

Faculty/Staff/Alumnus Inductees

Osei Yeboah, Ph.D.
Sanjun Gu, Ph.D.
Roberta Claro Da Silva, Ph.D.
Ramine Alexander, Ph.D.
Godfrey Uzochukwu, Ph.D.

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Kevin Barnes ’82: ‘A&T was a huge choice for me’

June 17, 2019

Growing up on a tobacco farm in Wilson County, all Kevin Barnes wanted to do was leave. “We lived out in the country, on a farm, and my father seriously believed in hard work,” Barnes said. “We farmed tobacco, corn, soybeans, hogs, cucumbers – a little of everything. It taught me to find something else to do. I wanted to get out.”

Diamond Mangrum ’20: ‘Out-standing’ in STEM

February 15, 2021

Diamond Mangrum ’20 is used to standing out. As a biological engineering and applied mathematics double major, she stands out as a woman in a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) field in which 60 percent of graduates are male.

Back in the Saddle

September 25, 2019

Tracy Hanner, D.V.M., a 32-year veteran of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, has returned to campus this year to guide the Department of Animal Sciences as interim chairperson.

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