In late September and early October, the inaugural A&T State University Honors Lecture Series is going to roll through research into multicultural education, on to the support Cooperative Extension is providing for A&T’s land-grant mission, and then down the Underground Railroad’s Guilford County stations. All installments in the Honors Lecture Series are open, without charge, to University faculty, staff and (especially) students.
• On Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in Room 315 of Gibbs Hall, Dr. José Arley Villalba Jr., an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at UNCG, will discuss his research into the impact of health disparities on rural Latinos. His talk will also delve into ways that researchers can make global impacts with their work, and the self-examination process for directing research passions in those directions.
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On Monday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. in the Godfrey Multipurpose Room at Coltrane Hall, there will be a presentation that was prepared by two specialists with The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T that will cover “Planting Seeds, Developing Potential — Solutions for Growth with Cooperative Extension Specialists.” Dr. Montreka Dansby, Cooperative Extension’s nutrition specialist, and Dr. Joshua Idassi, Extension’s natural resources specialist, have put together an overview of current Extension 
outreach efforts focusing on sustaining agriculture, protecting the environment, maintaining viable communities, and developing strong, healthy and safe families.
• On Wednesday, Oct. 7 at noon in Room 258 at Bluford Library 258, Guilford College's Max Carter will share stories of the Religious Society of Friends’ (Quaker) involvement in Guilford County's Underground Railroad and the history of Friends' responses to race before and after the Civil War. Carter is the director of the Friends Center and Guilford's Campus Ministry coordinator.
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