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News and Notes: July 2023

July 25, 2023

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Dean Ahmedna named to Business N.C.’s Power List

Mohamed Ahmedna, Ph.D.

Mohamed Ahmedna, dean of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, has been named to Business N.C. magazine’s Power List in the agricultural area. The magazine lists N.C.’s most influential leaders in such categories as agriculture, economic development, life sciences, health care, media and communication, transportation and more.

This issue marks the first time an Aggie agriculturalist has appeared in the feature.

Aggie student featured on Indianapolis newscast

Agribusiness and food industry management major Jayden Turner was featured on Indianapolis TV station WRTV for helping to arrange a community dinner to address food insecurity.

Turner has been an intern at Hatch for Hunger, a nonprofit that works to deliver fresh protein to food-insecure areas.

Watch the broadcast here:

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/nonprofits-host-community-dinner-to-help-address-food-insecurity-in-indianapolis

Fashion professor shares “What HBCUs Need” at fashion summit

Devona Dixon

Devona Dixon, Ph.D. , had a “fireside chat” with moderator D’Shonda Brown as part of a summit organized by Harlem’s Fashion Row. Here’s the story:

https://fashionista.com/2023/06/hbcus-fashion-industry-needs-professor-summit

Dean discusses SAPLINGS grant on WFMY

Mohamed Ahmedna, Ph.D.

Dean Ahmedna appeared on WFMY News 2, educating viewers about SAPLINGS, the CAES’s $18.1 million project to build, and sustain, students’ interest and participation in agriculture as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new initiative, “From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NEXTGEN.)”

The project, fittingly called SAPLINGS (System Approach to Promote Learning and Innovation for the Next GenerationS), is designed to grow the number of underrepresented minority students in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences. It will involve faculty and staff from each department of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and specialists with Cooperative Extension at N.C. A&T.

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/education/nc-at-works-to-improve-diversity-in-agriculture-increasing-students-in-food-and-agriculture/83-7ceb874e-81a5-478c-8837-79982b43d400

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‘Just what we need’The University Farm’s new Pavilion is the centerpiece of expanded programming.

‘Just what we need’The University Farm’s new Pavilion is the centerpiece of expanded programming.

Initially, it was just a collection of lines, measurements and artist renderings drawn on white broadsheets, some of them coffee-stained, curling at the corners and developing small tears along the edges from being flipped back and forth. But after years of hard work, focus and dedication, the new 17,000-square-foot CAES Extension and Farm Pavilion is now complete.
Three CAES Programs Rank in Top 10 Nationwide for Black Graduates

Three CAES Programs Rank in Top 10 Nationwide for Black Graduates

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University remains No. 1 in graduating African Americans with bachelor’s degrees in agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences, tied with Tuskegee University.
MacArthur “Genius” Walter Hood ’81 gives inaugural lecture of new series with U.C. Berkeley

MacArthur “Genius” Walter Hood ’81 gives inaugural lecture of new series with U.C. Berkeley

Internationally renowned landscape designer Walter Hood ‘81 returned virtually to the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Monday to give the first in a series of lunchtime lectures for students and faculty.
New CAES scholarship named for high-achieving ‘Little Brother’ Ramsey Bronyah

New CAES scholarship named for high-achieving ‘Little Brother’ Ramsey Bronyah

Growing up in public housing in Alexandria, Virginia, with his siblings and mother, an immigrant from Ghana, Ramsey Bronyah may have at first appeared to be a long way away from a career as a high-powered federal lawyer.
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