News and Notes – May 2025

May 29, 2025

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Extending a Hand Across the State

A group of 18 people, dressed in business casual attire, stand outdoors on grass and a sidewalk, smiling at the camera on a sunny day with trees and buildings in the background.

Twenty N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension interns received their assignments and spread out across the state to learn, teach and help Extension’s county offices in both the Family & Consumer Sciences and Agriculture and Natural Resources areas for six weeks. 2025 Extension interns are, left to right (front), Daniel Harmon, Anna Aikman, Autumn Davis, Amina Smallwood, Reykiyah Bobbitt, Jaileea Knight, Tuqura Lennon, Addison Bonner, Deion Phillips, Jordan Forbis, Camryn Ross, Arcanae Clark, Caitlin Saunders, Gabriella Haddock, and Louis Adams. Not shown: Darla Boyd, Samantha Laws and Zoe Locust.

Can AI Help Produce Happier Hogs? Workshop Shows Ways

August 28, 2026

A joint workshop between N.C. A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and N.C. State University gave undergraduates from a variety of disciplines a hands-on look at the ways precision livestock farming and artificial intelligence can create better living conditions for hogs.

August 2021 News and Notes

August 23, 2021

Professors Guochen Yang and Sanjun Gu’s work to make ginger a profitable, predictable crop choice for North Carolina farmers was recently highlighted in the News & Record newspaper in the article “Spicing Up Farming.”

DeShawn Blanding ’19: Ready to lead

December 17, 2019

Agribusiness major DeShawn Blanding, who graduated Dec. 14, is already a national leader. As Southern region vice president of the National FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America) in 2016-17, he traveled the country, visiting FFA chapters, hosting state and local conventions, and meeting FFA members. His election as a national FFA officer made him one of only six African Americans to achieve that distinction, and the first from a HBCU.

Day of Service Brings Aggies to the University Farm

September 19, 2025

Miss and Mister North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University — Mariah Couch and Miles Norwood — and the university’s Royal Court joined volunteers from the Aggie Source food pantry and the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement at the A&T Student Community Farm on Sept. 5.

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