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News and Notes, January 2024

January 29, 2024

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Fat Reduction Research Highlighted in Futurum Careers

Reza Tahergorabi, Ph.D.

Reza Tahergorabi, Ph.D.’s work into the use of oleogels as a medium to cooking healthier fried foods was featured in Futurum Careers.

The food industry has long sought a new frying medium that could offer the taste and texture of traditional fried foods, but without the dietary drawbacks of a high-fat diet.

Tahergorabi, associate professor of food and nutritional sciences, has taken on the challenge: is there a deep-frying medium that can reduce fat uptake in the food itself without generating trans-fatty acids? Oleogels may pose the answer.

Futurum Careers is a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). For more information, teaching resources, and course and career guides, see www.futurumcareers.com

Read Same taste, less fat – Oleogels may be the answer to healthier fried foods now, on https://caesresearch.news!  

Faulkner Provides Book Chapter

Paula Faulkner, Ph.D

Paula Faulkner, Ph.D., is a co-author of a chapter of a newly published Agricultural Education textbook on the subject “Applied Leadership Development Through FFA.”

CAES In the News

CAES is appearing in local and regional media!

Lab Animal Sciences student Breyana  Robinson, winner of a big national award, the Astronaut Scholarship, is in the HBCU Advocate;

http://www.thehbcuadvocate.com/three-at-students-selected-for-astronaut-scholarship-make-hbcu-history/

Landscape Architecture appeared on WFDD 88.5.FM's "Morning Edition" show:

https://www.wfdd.org/story/nc-students-will-design-outdoor-experience-toyota-megasite

and on WFMY, which not only included professor Steve Cancian and student Cierra Knight, but also footage from Dustin Chandler of CAES (Ag) Comm!

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/north-carolina-a-t-ncat-toyota-battery-manufacturing-plant-triad-guilford-randoplh-county-economy-education/83-201fe7f3-f80b-4a8d-9b31-f3bc401cfca4

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“A new day for American agriculture:” USDA leader visits N.C. A&T to view climate-smart investments

“A new day for American agriculture:” USDA leader visits N.C. A&T to view climate-smart investments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s only twice-appointed leader, Sec. Thomas Vilsack, came to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University Farm on Wednesday, Feb. 8 to discuss the major investment USDA is making in climate-smart agriculture – and then, to get a first-hand look at those practices in action.
Record number of spring graduates include more than 120 CAES students

Record number of spring graduates include more than 120 CAES students

More than 120 undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences’ four departments and 21 programs became part of the Class of 2022 on May 14, at the university’s largest-ever graduation event, inspired by keynote remarks from three-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sunny Hostin.
N.C. agriculture panel highlights importance of research stations in semester’s first student forum

N.C. agriculture panel highlights importance of research stations in semester’s first student forum

If the key to feeding a hungry planet is agricultural production, the key to production is agricultural research. That was the message of N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler and Teresa Lambert, division director of research stations, who visited campus virtually on Aug. 26 in the first of three forums planned this semester involving the NCDA&CS and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences about issues in agriculture and policy. Students, faculty, Extension staff and other members of the CAES attended the first online discussion of the semester, with a question and answer mediated on Zoom by junior animal sciences major Tahira Jones, president of the college’s chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS).
College Welcomes Record Enrollment Gains

College Welcomes Record Enrollment Gains

The College of Agriculture an Environmental Sciences achieved record enrollment growth this fall, with 1,271 students enrolled across all programs and 56 students in the Ph.D. program.
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