Online calculators with SAES relevance
• The Discovery Channel’s health and fitness website has an Activity Calorie Burn Rate calculator that has an extremely extensive list of physical activities in the database. Among the physical...
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Food Network footage shot at University Farm to air
As reported in the May 27 Greensboro News & Record's online edition, the A&T University Farm will be the setting for an installment that same day of the Food Network's "Throwdown With Bobby...
View Article“eXtension” Web portal has enticements for all comers
USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) launched an “eXtension” initiative in 2004 to centralize the online information supply lines from the 77 Extension units in...
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Small Farms Field Day gets go-ahead
Although biosecurity concerns emanating from the spread of swine flu could lead to a postponement or cancellation, those concerns have recently diminished to where the annual Small Farms Field Day at...
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Career steerage coming to Coltrane in June
The Guilford County Cooperative Extension Center is joining with Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. to provide a trilogy of job development workshops and a job fair at Coltrane Hall in June. The workshops...
View ArticleLoom of the fruit
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Science’s Piedmont Research Station in Salisbury will be hosting a Small Fruit Field Day on Thursday, June 4. Registration gets started at 5...
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Summer vacations can be 10 hours longer
Gov. Perdue’s emergency budget compromise that will reduce the paychecks for all state employees by .05 percent in May and June also adds an additional 10 hours of vacation to the leave accounts of all...
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Our man Omon
Our man Omon A story that ran under the headline “Family farm grows mushrooms” in the Raleigh News & Observer on Wednesday, May 17, began with sentence: “Linda Spain decided to become a shiitake...
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Animal animus
The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) and the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) will be holding a joint annual meeting (along with the Canadian Society of Animal Science) in Montréal...
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USDA Rural Development energy audit grants
USDA Rural Development will be accepting grant applications through June 9 for a funding program, established by the Farm BIll, to conduct energy audits that will provide agricultural producers and...
View ArticleGot to be NC set for last three days of May
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is coordinating its annual Got to be NC festival in honor of value-added agriculture in North Carolina at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh on...
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Health yourself by May 29
Health yourself by May 29 The State Health Plan’s annual enrollment period — which comes to a conclusion May 29 — is the one time of year for employees at A&T and other state agencies to make many...
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Applications for openings accepted until early June
The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T is accepting applications for a horticulture associate who will join the state-level staff at Coltrane Hall. Cooperative Extension is also accepting...
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Finalists to lead Agricultural Research Program to make seminar presentations
The four finalists for the position of associate dean for Research for the SAES have been invited to present seminars — open to faculty, staff and students — on the topic: Agricultural Research in the...
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Better bacteria a boost to longevity?
Dr. Salam Ibrahim has been working with a team of researchers from the People's Republic of China that had findings from a project published in the April issue of Nutrition Research that caught the...
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