http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/ The newsletter of the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences en Copyright 2009 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:40:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Ag. Communications & Technology's (ACT) photographer, James Parker, has set aside the morning of Thursday, Jan. 31, to take photos of new faculty members and old faculty members who have made alterations in their appearance (dramatic enough to where they no longer look as they did when they had photo taken last year or earlier). Parker will be taking photos from 9 to 11 a.m. His strong suggestions for a top-quality photo that looks good in publications and reflects professionalism are:
• Business dress (tie and jacket for men)
• To avoid white clothing
• To avoid seasonal clothing (such as heavy, winter clothing that will look strange in a July newspaper)
• To avoid extensive or highly reflective jewelry
If you have any questions about clothing or other photo session details, please contact Parker, 334-7050, before you come to C. H. Moore on Jan. 31.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/faculty-photos-the-ag-edispatc.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/faculty-photos-the-ag-edispatc.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:40:00 -0500 The 22nd annual Ronald E. McNair Commemorative Celebration at A&T will be Jan. 27-29. SAES faculty and students submitting poster or oral presentations covering research projects should remember that oral presentations will be from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, and that poster presentations will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. that same day. Research presentations will be at the Alumni-Foundation Events Center, just down Benbow Road from Webb Hall. Ronald McNair was an A&T alumnus who went on to become a NASA astronaut, but lost his life during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. Since 2001, the McNair celebration has been accompanied by a research symposium that gives A&T faculty and students an opportunity to share their research work with campus colleagues and members of the scientific community from other agencies and institutions.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/dont-forget-that-monday-jan-28.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/dont-forget-that-monday-jan-28.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:37:00 -0500 The due date for annual progress/termination report notices (Form AD 421) for principal investigators and project directors with funding from Evans-Allen and some other USDA-funded grants is Jan. 28.
The Agricultural Research Program’s administrative team at C. H. Moore is asking that principal investigators please follow the instructions that were attached when forms were distributed in October of 2007.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/ad-421s-due-ad-128-the-ag-edis.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/ad-421s-due-ad-128-the-ag-edis.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:35:00 -0500 Three regional conferences for campus-based Cooperative Extension personnel at A&T and N.C. State University, and members of the Extension field staff stationed at county Extension centers, are scheduled for Greenville, March 12; Raleigh, March 14; and Hickory March 18. Cooperative Extension personnel stationed at Coltrane Hall and elsewhere at A&T should make plans to join field staff from the West and West Central Districts at the Hickory Metro Convention Center on March 18. Online registration instructions will soon be distributed via email, and A&T Extension personnel are encouraged to register promptly when they receive instructions and the link to online registration. A “Unity ID” will be required. If you’ve forgotten your login or ID number, If you’ve forgotten your login or ID number, use this link mailto:ces_help@ncsu.edu for assistance.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/hickory-on-the-docket-the-ag-e.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/hickory-on-the-docket-the-ag-e.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:33:00 -0500 Delaware State University is hosting a national conference on agriculture, and conservation and management of natural resources April 17 to 19, and conference organizers have put a two-week extension on the deadline for paper abstracts. Papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and must adhere to the guidelines for authors for the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Restoration. Authors now have until Feb.15 to submit abstracts. Manuscripts accepted will be published in the “Proceedings of the National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management.” The College of Agriculture and Related Sciences at Delaware State plans to make this conference an annual event that will bring together specialists in the many areas related to sustainable agriculture and natural resources management for an exchange of ideas.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/deadline-extended-in-delaware.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/deadline-extended-in-delaware.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:24:00 -0500 A&T's Office of Admissions and Enrollment Management has a series of "Aggie Nite" recruitment receptions scheduled for high school students that will continue through mid-February. Aggie Nites are scheduled for: Washington, Jan. 30; Raleigh-Durham, Feb. 5; Roanoke Rapids, Feb 11; Greenville, Feb 12; and Fayetteville, Feb 14. Starting time for all Aggie Nites is 7 p.m. If you know of high school students who might be interested in attending an Aggie Nite, direct their attention to the online registration form.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/cultivating-potential-the-ag-e.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/cultivating-potential-the-ag-e.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:19:00 -0500 The entry deadline for the annual photo contest for Cooperative Extension faculty and staff that is coordinated by the Department of Communications Services at the College of Life Sciences at N.C. State is March 1. The judges are looking for photos that are creative and artistic, and which capture the day-to-day work that Cooperative Extension performs for the citizens of North Carolina. This year’s theme is “People Helping People Put Knowledge to Work,” and entries should fall into one of these categories (the major goals in Extension’s new 4-year plan of work):
• Increasing Educational Achievement and Excellence
• Economic Development and Opportunities
• Energy Conservation and Alternatives
• Obesity and Chronic Illness
• Community and Leadership Development
• Sustainable/Profitable Agriculture, Horticulture and Food Systems
• Environmental Stewardship and Natural Resources Management
• Life Skills and Parenting
• Disaster Preparedness
Cash awards of $50, $30, $20 and $10 will go to the contest winners. Winning entries will be added to the Communication Services On-Line Image Gallery.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/extension-photographers-get-th.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/extension-photographers-get-th.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:14:00 -0500 • Whenever copyrighted text or a graphic from a website is transferred to another website, a word processing document or any other medium, it’s an infringement of copyright unless you have written permission from the copyright holder to use the text or graphic. How can you know for certain if text or a graphic you want to borrow is copyrighted? You can’t. It may be copyrighted material even if there’s not a symbol or statement to that effect. There’s no federal clearinghouse for copyright information, so there’s only one way to avoid possible infringement when copying material from a website and that’s to request written permission from the individual whose web work you want to borrow. (If someone wrongly states that he or she holds a copyright and grants permission to reproduce material that isn’t theirs to grant, then the infringement issue will be between the grantee and the actual copyright holder, if the copyright holder files an objection.) • What is called the "fair use" provision in copyright law is a small loophole that allows for quoting passages from another author’s work for reviews, commentaries or other instances where another author’s exact wording is necessary for discourse. There is no exact word or sentence length that determines what is fair use and what isn’t. If you are using another author’s words to illustrate or support a point of contention in your own work, that is probably covered by the fair use provision. If you are using several sentences from another author’s to make a point instead of building a case yourself, then that isn’t fair use, but instead a copyright infringement. Whenever another author’s work is used in accordance with the fair use provision, the work from which wording is borrowed must always be cited. • While it’s OK to put a link to someone else’s website in your own work, permission is required if you want to use a trademarked logo or icon as a hyperlink instead of just hypertext.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/copyright-wrongs-the-ag-edispa.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/copyright-wrongs-the-ag-edispa.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:13:00 -0500 The first annual North Carolina Summit on Youth and Families was sponsored by the North Carolina Extension Service and the Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences at North Carolina State University, and The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T to recognize Extension programming that is creatively engaging the social and economic issues facing youth and families in North Carolina. The summit was convened in Durham Dec. 4 and 5. Two of the five major awards for excellence in Extension efforts to reach youth and families went to 4-H volunteers from counties in which The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T has been a longstanding building block in 4-H and youth development programming:
• The 2007 Award for Team Excellence in Youth and Family Programming went to Mary Kathryn Hardison of Harnett County and Caleb Black of Yancey County, the youth volunteers who served as co-chairs for the North Carolina 4-H Health Initiative Teen Superforce (H.I.T.S.). The mission of H.I.T.S. is to help reduce childhood obesity through training for 4-H camp directors and volunteers, and Extension agents and program assistants. Hardison and Black logged more than 2,000 hours of volunteer work for H.I.T.S. Black was coached by Linda Semon, A&T Extension’s 4-H program associate at the Yancey County Extension Center.
• The 2007 Award for Individual Excellence in Youth and Family Programming went to Ke’Ron Bass of Bertie County, an honor student who serves as a junior leader for 4-H and so many other school organizations and community service efforts that he has become known as “Mr. Volunteer” in his County. The “Mr. Volunteer” title was unofficially bestowed on Bass by A&T Extension’s 4-H Youth Development agent in Bertie County, Bettina Odom, in nominating him for the award.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/at-4h-produces-teen-superforce.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/at-4h-produces-teen-superforce.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:45:00 -0500 The American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) has set Jan. 28 as the nomination deadline for both its Award of Excellence and its Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award. The latter was named to honor two former SAES deans, Drs. Burleigh Webb and Daniel Godfrey, along with Dr. Walter Hill, dean of the College of Agriculture, Environmental, and Natural Sciences at Tuskegee University, for their work to get 1890 land-grants involved in online learning and other distance education technologies. ADEC’s Award of Excellence recognizes distance education programs at A&T and other ADEC member-institutions that are innovative and have made an impact. With the award comes a $5,000 cash prize for the winning team or individual. Nominees can come from teaching, research or Extension. The Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award similarly honors teams and individuals for contributions to distance learning methodologies, but only teams, departments and individuals at 1890 Land-Grants are eligible. The award winner will receive a plaque and $2,000. Both the Award of Excellence and the Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award will be presented at ADEC’s annual meeting April 21-23, in Minneapolis.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/distance-education-nomination.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/distance-education-nomination.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:43:00 -0500 Delaware State University, one of A&T’s sister 1890 land-grants, will be hosting a national conference on agriculture, and natural resources conservation and management pril 17 to 19. The College of Agriculture and Related Sciences at Delaware state hopes to make this an annual event that will bring together specialists in the many areas related to sustainable agriculture and natural resources management for an exchange of ideas. A call for papers has gone out, and the deadline for abstracts is Jan. 31. Papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and must adhere to the guidelines for authors for the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Restoration. Manuscripts accepted will be published in the “Proceedings of the National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management.”]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/delaware-state-calls-for-paper.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/delaware-state-calls-for-paper.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:40:00 -0500 The application deadline for the USDA 1890 Scholarships for 2008 is Monday, Jan. 15. If you know of high-achieving high school seniors who might be interested, encourage them to check out the program at http://1890scholars.program.usda.gov. USDA’s 1890 Scholars Program is a top-flight opportunity for high-flying high school seniors. For students selected as 1890 Scholars, USDA pays full tuition and fees for them to attend one of the 1890 Institutions for four years, and the 1890 they attend gives them free room and board. USDA 1890 Scholars also receive employment with a USDA agency (and employee benefits) during each of the years they are working toward a bachelor's degree.]]> http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/fullride-option-leaves-station.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/fullride-option-leaves-station.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:20:00 -0500 http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:15:00 -0500 http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch-hickory-on-th.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch-hickory-on-th.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:15:00 -0500 http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch-fullride-opti.html http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/2008/01/the-ag-edispatch-fullride-opti.html Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:15:00 -0500