News and Notes – September 2025

September 26, 2025

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CAES

Sampson Community College Agreement to Help Future Ag Education Students

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The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences has teamed up with Sampson Community College to help future agricultural education teachers further their progress toward a bachelor’s degree.

An agreement signed Sept. 17 allows SCC agribusiness and animal science students to transfer more than 50 credit hours toward a bachelor of science in agricultural education from N.C. A&T through the online Agricultural Education 2+2 Program.

This initiative streamlines the path to a bachelor of science in agricultural education — the university’s oldest academic degree — while reducing costs and accelerating completion. The 2+2 program is the longest-running online undergraduate degree at the university.

The program partners with multiple North Carolina community colleges and the two-year Agricultural Institute at North Carolina State University.

CAES 1890 Scholarship awarded to 23 students for fall semester

August 24, 2020

Twenty-three incoming freshmen from across North Carolina and the Southeast have joined the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences as CAES 1890 Agricultural Scholars this fall. The CAES 1890 Agricultural Scholars Program, in its first year, provides full tuition, books and software, room and board for up to four years for students pursuing careers in the agricultural sciences.

Fashion Nova, Megan Thee Stallion Give $25,000 to Fashion Program

April 19, 2021

Popular fashion retailer Fashion Nova and rapper Megan Thee Stallion rolled out the red carpet for the fashion merchandising and design program at N.C. A&T recently with a surprise donation of $25,000.

Sang awarded two grants to study foods’ effects on the body, disease prevention

February 16, 2021

Shengmin Sang, Ph.D., a professor of functional foods and human health at N.C. A&T’s Center of Excellence for Post-Harvest Technologies at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $1 million from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.