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Julieta Sherk Wins Fulbright Award

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For NC State University’s Julieta Trevino Sherk, a recent visit to the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants Veteran Memorial Garden in Durham was a chance to both look back and think ahead.

While there on a rainy February morning, Sherk recalled practicing with a local landscape architecture firm to develop the gardens and grounds in 2005. Then, last spring, as an associate professor of horticultural science, she and her undergraduate landscape construction studio students worked to incorporate a remembrance wall and patio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the physician assistant profession, which originated in North Carolina in 1967 when three former Navy hospital corpsmen completed studies at Duke University. Continue reading →

‘Visionary Gift’ to Bolster Plant Breeding Program

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For more than 50 years, Dr. Charlie Stuber has blazed a trail in genetics and plant science, pioneering research that transformed techniques in plant breeding worldwide.

At the same time, he’s dedicated himself to training students, preparing the next generation to blaze trails of their own. Continue reading →

Cisneros on CALS’ International Impact

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Mr. Jose Cisneros

Visit CALS International Programs online, and you’ll get an idea of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ presence around the globe. You’ll see our students visiting the Czech Republic, our researchers working in farm fields in Peru and Kenya, and delegations of scientists and agriculturists from all over the world visiting our college. Continue reading →

Wehner Honored with Career Award

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Dr. Todd C. WehnerDr. Todd Wehner was presented with the career award at the international meeting of EUCARPIA VI, the European plant breeding organization, in Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Todd C. Wehner is leader of the cucumber and watermelon breeding project at North Carolina State University-Raleigh. He also does research on melon and Asian gourds. His research has emphasized improved selection methods; recurrent selection for fruit yield, earliness and quality; resistance to chilling, nematodes, anthracnose, belly rot, gummy stem blight, powdery mildew, downy mildew and potyviruses; and germplasm evaluation. His objectives are to provide industry with new traits for the development of improved cultivars, research information, and graduate students who can run field plant breeding programs. Continue reading →

Sweet Potato Sequencing Effort Aims to Improve Food Security

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Dr. Bode Olukolu

Craig Yencho and Bode Olukolu Win 2017 Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grant

Since 2011, the Agricultural Greater Good Initiative has awarded grants of Illumina products to researchers using Illumina technology to tackle diverse genomics-oriented projects aimed at alleviating global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the developing world. Supported research projects have spanned the globe and the spectrum of scientific discovery improving studies of agriculturally important plants and animals that are commonly consumed by food insecure populations. Continue reading →