Family Kirkus
The editorial staff for the quarterly magazine published by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), the NCFR Report, has set the themes and submission deadlines for its fall and winter issues...
View ArticleA&T well represented as part of 100 years of outreaches in family and...
On May 25, a capacity crowd of more than 850 packed the McKimmon Center for Extension & Continuing Education on the N.C. State campus in Raleigh for the official Centennial Celebration of...
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Answering Sloan calls
The deadline for submitting abstracts of papers and presentation proposals for the 17th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning has been extended to Monday, June 6. The...
View ArticleSAES mourns passing of longtime member of Animal Sciences faculty
The SAES marked the loss of one of the pillars of its Dept. of Animal Sciences with the passing of Dr. David Libby on May 19. Libby retired in 2006 after more than 26 years with the SAES. On two...
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New funding for tackling food deserts
July 1 is the closing date for grant applications for the next round of bequests from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP). Ongoing FMPP funding interests...
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26th RAP soon to get started
The SAES's 26th annual Research Apprenticeship Program will be bringing 20 high-achieving high school students — 19 North Carolinians and a Georgian — to the A&T campus for a four-week stay...
View ArticleSeventh annual Duke bioinformatics workshop set for July 18 - 21
Computer-enhanced analytical processes for research with biological connections are now delivering so much data that a new discipline — bioinformatics — has evolved to assist scientists in accessing...
View ArticleDisaster mastery
The Emergency Programs Division of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) joined forces with the SAES's Dept. of Animal Sciences and The Cooperative Extension Program at...
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Family planning
The editorial staff for a quarterly magazine published by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), NCFR Report, has announced that the theme for the fall issue is intergenerational relations...
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Cupric precautions
The deadly outbreak of food-borne illness in Europe that has been traced to a virulent strain of E. coli sent staff writer Rachael Rettner of MyHealthNewsDaily to the Web in a quest for scientific...
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Food distribution research overviews due first of July
July 1 is the deadline for proposals to the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) for poster presentations, research reports and research updates for its annual conference in Portland, Ore., Oct....
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Locavores back in high gear
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ (CEFS) “10% Campaign” that has now nudged North Carolinians into directing more than $4.6 million of their food budgets to local farms and agribusinesses...
View ArticleDurham to be part of the global gene scene July 18 - 21
Computer-enhanced analytical processes for research with biological connections are now delivering so much data that a corollary new discipline — bioinformatics — has evolved to assist scientists in...
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