Student team wins first place at HBCU Innovation Showcase
(left to right,) Philip Yeboah, Abdulhakim Sharaf Eddin, Rycal Blount and Alaina Brock during their presentation at the AAAS HBCU Innovation Showcase.
The Food and Nutritional Science team won first place at the national 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science HBCU Innovation Showcase, held Sept. 24-25 in Washington, D.C.
Students representing the department were Alaina Brock, an Undergraduate Research Scholar; Rycal Blount, a graduate research assistant for Roberta Da Silva, Ph.D.; Abdulhakim Sharaf Eddin, a Ph.D. student; and Philip Yeboah, a master’s student.
The students made a presentation and showed a video clip on a new delivery system for functional ingredients, compounds or probiotics. The department has applied for a patent on this research.
“These are excellent students and I am truly proud of them,” said Salam Ibrahim, Ph.D., who has applied for the patent with Tahl Zimmerman, Ph.D. and Roberta Claro da Silva, Ph.D.
Farmer Veteran Coalition of N.C.
Kenny Gibbs of the N.C. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Sevices speaks during the Farmer Veteran Coalition of North Carolina’s annual educational conference held recently at the North Carolina A&T State University Farm Pavilion.
