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<title>on  the move on  the SAES Web page</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  June issue of the SAES newsletter on the move is now in the hands of the  U.S. Postal Service, and will be showing up in mailboxes in the next few days.  The online edition is already posted if you would like a peek at articles about  the SAES&rsquo;s new equine program and a faculty member who was recently thrice  honored for his dedication to students and research.]]></description>
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<title>SAES  research showcased in Memphis</title>
<description><![CDATA[Papers  covering six research projects   with SAES connections were among 32 selected for presentation to research and  Extension colleagues from A&amp;T&rsquo;s sister 1890 institutions at a conference in  Memphis hosted by the Association of Extension Administrators and the Agricultural Research  Directors. The conference  was organized around four key issues &mdash; food safety, obesity and wellness,  renewable energy, and youth development &mdash; and two of the SAES research projects  were singled out for their contributions to food safety research. Dr. Salam  Ibrahim was part of a team invited to present a paper on &ldquo;Antimicrobial Effect  of Pomegranate Fruit Extract Against Foodborne Pathogens in Liquid Medium.&rdquo;  Drs. Keith Baldwin and Jimo Ibrahim of the Cooperative Extension Program, and  Dr. Ipek Gotkepe, an SAES food scientist, were on the team that presented  findings from research into &ldquo;Good Agricultural and Handling Practices for  Socially Disadvantaged Farmers.&rdquo;
              An  all-SAES research team, comprised of Drs. Paula Faulkner, Terrence Thomas and  Osei Yeboah, and graduate student Marcus Bernard, submitted one of SAES&rsquo;s  cutting edge projects in obesity and wellness: &ldquo;Obesity and Other  Health-Related Behaviors&rsquo; Relationship to Employment Status in North Carolina.&rdquo;  Another SAES team, composed of Drs. Mohamed Ahmedna and Jianmei Yu, and research associates Djaafar Rehrah and  Nimsate Kane, had research into &ldquo;Fortified Peanut-based Powdered Milk for  &ldquo;Recovery of Undernourished Children&rdquo; accepted for the obesity and wellness  track.
              Among  the projects selected for advances in renewable energy was &ldquo;Turning Duckweed  into Biofuels,&rdquo; the work of an SAES team composed of Drs. Ghasem Shahbazi,  Shuangning Xiu, and graduate student James Croonenberghs. Dr. Omon Isikhuemhen  was part of the team behind another renewable energy project, which has been  investigating &ldquo;Pretreatment of Canola Residue with Strains of White-Rot Fungi  by Solid-State Fermentation for Lignocellulosic Conversion to Ethanol.&rdquo;]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:46:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>New  hardware for Carver</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dr.  Antoine Alston, coordinator of the SAES Agricultural Education Program, has  received a grant for $77,000 from computer maker Hewlett-Packard. The grant  includes $20,000 in cash and $57,000 worth of computers and equipment that will  be used to improve SAES courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).&nbsp; A&amp;T was one of only 44 institutions of  higher education to be awarded the competitive grant, which drew more than 370  applicants. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/new-hardware-fo.html</link>
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<category>Agribusiness, Applied Economics and Agriscience Education</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:44:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ABCs  of small-scale agriculture for the summer of &lsquo;08]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ABCs  of small-scale agriculture for the summer of &lsquo;08
              At  the Sandhills Research Station,  the biennial Small Fruit Field Day is going to be Tuesday, June 17. Strawberry,  blueberry, grape, raspberry and blackberry research will be discussed, and  there will be presentations covering grower certification programs, and weed  and insect control. (Small fruit growers who find it difficult to set aside an  entire day for an update on new varieties and production methods should take  note of the Small Fruit Day&rsquo;s accommodating schedule: registration begins at  4:30 p.m., and the field day itself will run from 5 to 8:15 p.m.)
              Because  it&rsquo;s at an elevation of 3,200 feet, the Upper Mountain Research Station in Ashe County has high altitude growing conditions even through it&rsquo;s within  110 miles of Greensboro. The Upper Mountain Research Station will be hosting  its 2008 Specialty Crops Field Day on  Thursday, June 25, from 10:30 to noon (registration starts at 10 a.m.). Among  the specialty crops in the spotlight this year are strawberry and lettuce  cultivars, and heirloom tomatoes.
              Circle  Thursday, Aug. 7 on your wall calendar and add the date to your computer  alerts. That&rsquo;s the date for Small Farms Field Day at the University Farm. The 2008 tour route will wind its way  through beef cattle biosecurity, biodiesel production, colored bell peppers, heat  stress management for pastured pigs and organic vegetables.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/abcs-of-smallsc.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:28:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Extension  accepting applications for two openings until July 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  Cooperative Extension Program at A&amp;T has set July 1 as the application  deadline for two openings for subject matter specialists who will work out of  offices at Coltrane Hall.
              One  opening is for a natural resources specialist, whose programming responsibilities will include natural  resource protection and conservation management; environmental education for  youth, and urban ecosystems management. The selection committee is looking for  applicants with three years of professional experience in Extension education  or a related field, and a doctorate in natural resource or environmental management.
              Cooperative  Extension also has an opening for a nutrition specialist, who will be supporting the work of nutrition educators  across the state with training and technical assistance. The Cooperative Extension  Program is looking for candidates with experience in the design and development  of nutrition education programs, who have doctorates in nutrition or a related  field. Preferences will be given to applicants who are Registered Dietitians,  and with experience in Cooperative Extension or a similar organization.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/extension-accep-1.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:24:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>PO  advice and PI advisory</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  Agricultural Research Program staff is taking advantage of the flextime option   on Fridays,&nbsp;  through Aug. 1. Purchase and travel requests, payroll authorizations and  other business transactions received after 10 a.m. on Fridays will not be  processed until the following Monday. Purchase requests and payroll  authorizations received before 10 a.m. on Fridays will be processed that same  day if there are no problems or questions regarding the request.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/po-advice-and-p-2.html</link>
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<category>Agricultural Research</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:22:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>KY  Poverty Research Center has funding for junior faculty research</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research  is  looking for&nbsp; proposals   from junior faculty with  full-time academic appointments who are untenured and have received their doctorates  in the past seven years. The Center is looking for social science research  regarding low-income populations &mdash; including child and family well being, and  the economic status of disadvantaged and underrepresented populations.  Preference will be given to proposals that address poverty in the South.
              The  Center is planning to fund three proposals of up to $7,500 each. The  application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, July 11.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/ky-poverty-rese.html</link>
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<category>Academic Departments</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:20:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tobacco  Trust Fund proposals due August 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  Tobacco Trust Fund Commission&rsquo;s deadline for grant applications for its next funding cycle  is Aug. 1. The Commission&rsquo;s priorities for the upcoming funding cycle include  community economic development, farm profitability, natural resource and  farmland preservation, and other projects that will support the state&rsquo;s  agricultural economy. Special attention will be given to proposals that address  areas affected by changes in the tobacco industries, and to projects with broad  geographic and demographic impact potential.
              The  N. C. General Assembly established the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission eight  years ago to direct lawsuit settlement funds from cigarette manufacturers (the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement) to farmers and tobacco-related  businesses. A good source of inspiration for funding proposals is the  Commission&rsquo;s &ldquo;Six-Year Retrospective&rdquo;. (Don&rsquo;t miss the  article beginning on page 15 that devotes considerable attention to Happy Land  Farms, owned and operated by 2006 G.L. and Clara Y. Dudley Small Farmers of the  Year, Ann and Harold Wright, or the detailed article on a grant project  coordinated by Dr. Keith Baldwin of Cooperative Extension that begins on page  33.)]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/tobacco-trust-f.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:19:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Formal  affair</title>
<description><![CDATA[Donna  Holland of Cooperative Extension passed along a suggestion in late April that  recently received a hearty second from University Property Management. Holland  suggested SAES faculty and staff extend their spring cleaning energies to their  offices, labs and storage rooms by filling out a &ldquo;Property disposition  (surplus) form,&rdquo; which will set the wheels in motion for removal of obsolete,  beyond repair or unneeded furniture or equipment. The memo from Property  Management on June 3 also pointed out that it will behoove departmental budgets  if capitalized items of $5,000 or more are surplused before the end of the  state fiscal year on June 30. The &ldquo;Property disposition (surplus) form&rdquo; is at  the Business and Finance website,  among the fixed asset forms. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/formal-affair-1.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:13:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Vine  and dandy</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  N.C. Tomato Growers Association has a $1,000 scholarship for the 2008-09  academic year that will be awarded to a student majoring in horticulture or  agribusiness at either the graduate or undergraduate levels. The application  deadline is June 30, and the winner will be announced Aug. 7 at the annual  Tomato Field Day at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in  Fletcher.&nbsp; Scholarship applicants should be residents of  North Carolina, and have an overall GPA of at least 2.5.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/vine-and-dandy.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:12:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>SAES  spelling bee vocabulary</title>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone  who watched the Scripps National Spelling Bee  on  television in late May undoubtedly noticed the large number of words tied to  agricultural, family and life sciences. Here are some of the words (and  definitions from Webster's Online Dictionary) that contestants were asked to  spell that are rare elsewhere but everyday language at the SAES:
              agrostologist  (&ldquo;one who studies the branch of botany concerned with grass&rdquo;)
                Appaloosa  (&ldquo;a horse breed in which the adult has one of several distinct patterns of  spots&rdquo;)
                beignet  (&ldquo;a pastry made from fried dough and sprinkled with confectioners' sugar ...  associated with New Orleans&rdquo;)
                bockwurst  (&ldquo;a German sausage&rdquo;)
                coniferous  (&ldquo;relating to trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves&rdquo;)
                cygnet  (&ldquo;a young swan&rdquo;)
                demitasse  (&ldquo;small cup of coffee&rdquo;)
                emulsify  (&ldquo;combining two liquids together which don't mix easily ... usually oil or a  fat and water or another liquid&rdquo;)
                floscular  (&ldquo;small flower, tubular in form&rdquo;)
                flummery  (&ldquo;a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal&rdquo;)
                gelato  (&ldquo;Italian ice cream made from milk and sugar&rdquo;)
                geriatrician  (&ldquo;a specialist in gerontology&rdquo;)
                gosling  (&ldquo;young goose&rdquo;)
                Guernsey  (&ldquo;breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey&rdquo;)
                hepatic  (&ldquo;pertaining to the liver&rdquo;)
                hibernaculum  (&ldquo;winter home&rdquo;)
                homeostasis&nbsp; (&ldquo;balance or equilibrium&rdquo;)
                hydrotropism  (&ldquo;a tendency towards moisture&rdquo;)
                indumentum  (&ldquo;covering of hairs on an animal or plant&rdquo;)
                julienne  (&ldquo;cut into long thin strips ... &lsquo;julienne the potatoes&rsquo;&quot;)
                juvenescence  (&ldquo;process of growing into a youth&rdquo;)
                monticule  (&ldquo;small mountain, knoll or hill&rdquo;)
                nidicolous  (&ldquo;hatched or born in an undeveloped state requiring feeding by parents&rdquo;)
                oniomania  (&ldquo;obsessive or uncontrollable urge to buy things&rdquo;)
                osoberry  (&ldquo;plant from the rose family&rdquo;)
                pathogenicity  (&ldquo;ability of an organism to produce an infectious disease in another organism&rdquo;)
                photosynthesis  (&ldquo;process operating in green plants in which carbohydrates are formed under the  influence of light&rdquo;)
                quadrif  (&ldquo;species of colorful Australian parrots&rdquo;)
                roux  (&ldquo;mixture of fat and flour heated and used for sauces&rdquo;)
                slumgullion  (&ldquo;thin stew of meat and vegetables&rdquo;)
                sultana  (&ldquo;pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine&rdquo;)
                tetrapteran  (&ldquo;insect having four wings&rdquo;)
                tubulifloral,  (&quot;belonging to the division Tubuliflorae of plants&rdquo;)
                umbrageous  (&ldquo;filled with shade&rdquo;)
                wainwright  (&ldquo;wagon builder&rdquo;)
                wassail  (&ldquo;sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples&rdquo;)
                zoolatry  (&ldquo;worship of animals&rdquo;) ]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/06/saes-spelling-b.html</link>
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<category>Communications Corner</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:10:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Business Journal checks with Dr. T for farm bill diagnosis</title>
<description><![CDATA[The  May 23 edition of The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area gave a  localized slant to the much-discussed $307-billion farm bill, in a feature  article with the headline: &ldquo;Farm bill contains nuggets for Triad agriculture  interests.&rdquo; The first local authority on the farm bill that Business Journal reporter Matt Evans turned to for an opinion was Dr. Alton Thompson, and Evans  leads off his summary of Thompson&rsquo;s assessment of the farm bill&rsquo;s impact on the  SAES by noting that, &ldquo;About 45 percent of the school's $25.4 million annual  budget is tied to funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as set in the  farm bill, and matched by the N.C. General Assembly... This year's bill boosts  those federal funds by about 5 percent, Thompson said, and should trigger an  equal increase in state matching funds. The bill also should provide about  $800,000 for facilities improvements at the school.&rdquo;
              The  &ldquo;Farm bill contains nuggets for Triad agriculture interests&rdquo;  article also has some remarks from Thompson on potential SAES involvement in  the billion dollars worth of renewable energy programs in the new farm bill.  The visual complement for the article is a photo of Dr. Ipek Goktepe, an SAES  food scientist, at work in her lab.]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/05/business-journa-1.html</link>
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<category>SAES</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:48:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>New  route for communications channeling</title>
<description>The  protocol for Extension and teaching faculty submitting Communications Checkups  to Ag. Communications and Technology for publications, Web pages, editorial  services and other project assistance has been revised recently. The online  Communications Checkup now goes first to the appropriate department chair  or Extension administrator for approval before it moves on to the director of  Ag. Communications and Technology for review and scheduling. </description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/05/new-route-for-c.html</link>
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<category>SAES</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:29:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>1890  Conference just around the corner</title>
<description><![CDATA[From  June 8 through 11, the Association of Extension Administrators and the Agricultural Research  Directors  will be  co-hosting a conference in Memphis  for more than 600 researchers  and members of Cooperative Extension staffs at the 1890 land-grant  institutions. 
              As  the current chair of the Association of Research Directors, Dr. Alton Thompson,  the SAES dean, will be delivering both opening and closing remarks at the  conference. He will be teaming up with the current chair of the Association of  Extension Directors, Dr. M. Ray McKinnie, associate dean and administrator for  The Cooperative Extension Program at A&amp;T, who will be delivering opening  and closing remarks on behalf of that organization. In between, there will be  research presentations, Extension programming success stories and sharing  sessions revolving around four major issues that conference organizers have  pinpointed: 
  &bull;  Food Safety 
  &bull;  Obesity and Wellness 
  &bull;  Renewable Energy 
  &bull;  Youth Development
              Monday, June 2 is the in-the-queue deadline for posters that  Memphis-bound SAES faculty and staff planning to channel through Ag.  Communications and Technology for the large format printer. Please follow the  guidelines and remember that if your poster includes the A&amp;T logo,  then use the logo located in the poster file in a folder named &ldquo;A&amp;T logo.&rdquo;]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/05/1890-conference.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:27:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>New  shooting stars</title>
<description><![CDATA[Each  June, the North Carolina Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association  (NCFW&amp;BA) sponsors the North Carolina 4-H Congress Photography Contest. There is a junior  competition for 4-H&rsquo;ers who are 9 to 12 years old, and a senior division for  4-H&rsquo;ers 13 to 19. Photos may be submitted in all or any of three categories:  &quot;4-H in Action,&quot; &quot;Nature's Beauty,&quot; and &quot;Humor.&rdquo;&nbsp; The entry deadline is June 10.
              The  NCFW&amp;BA was founded more than 50 years ago to provide training and  information for communications professionals at newspapers, and radio and  television stations who cover agriculture in North Carolina. Its membership  also includes personnel with the communications departments at the SAES and the  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at N.C. State, and  communications liaisons with commodity groups. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.ag.ncat.edu/agedispatch/archives/2008/05/new-shooting-st.html</link>
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<category>Cooperative Extension</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:26:01 -0500</pubDate>
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