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News and Notes – October 2025

October 28, 2025

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Student Senators Shine

CAES Senators, left to right, Mantrell Goodrum II, Xanaa Myers, Kennedy Parker, Jaileea Knight, and K’la Green.

CAES’s 2025-26 Student Senators are (left to right): Mantrell Goodrum II, Xanaa Myers, Kennedy Parker, Jaileea Knight and K’la Green. Student senators act as a liaison between students and the administration. They also plan events, support student organizations, and work on initiatives to improve students’ experiences.

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“The Worst Natural Disaster..By a Long Way:” Troxler Discusses Helene with CAES Students

“The Worst Natural Disaster..By a Long Way:” Troxler Discusses Helene with CAES Students

N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler addressed the impact of, and state response to, Hurricane Helene following its landfall in late September during a recent visit to the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
Path to recovery: Onnr Grogan looks to the future with determination, excitement

Path to recovery: Onnr Grogan looks to the future with determination, excitement

Onnr Grogan doesn’t remember much about her fall semester. The period from mid-September to late October is lost to her entirely. When her memories pick up in November, they are not of an Aggie Homecoming, her classes, her friends or even her Undergraduate Research Scholar Program project. Instead, she remembers learning to stand and walk from a wheelchair, to shower by herself and to form the numbers 1-6.
Salad Days

Salad Days

Students and staff alike came to the Reid Greenhouse and Carver Hall to enjoy the annual Earth Day Plant Sale and free salad bar, featuring a wide selection of plants grown by CAES students in Specialty Crops and Plant Propagation classes, and raises funds for the Student Farm. In addition to the sale, free pick-your-own salads, grown in the nearby raised beds, were available with dressing and croutons provided. Professor Odile Huchette, who leads the project, said the free salad day has been going on for eight years, and the plant sale was added during the COVID pandemic. As the students grow and share the various plants, Huchette says, it creates the opportunity to tie together education and community service.
CAES Junior’s Sustainable Styles Draw the Spotlight on Social Media, on Campus 

CAES Junior’s Sustainable Styles Draw the Spotlight on Social Media, on Campus 

Deconstructing and reconstructing fashions comes naturally to Collin Semien, and his reconstructions have caught the attention of fellow students and social media. One of his wearable creations gained more than 34,000 views on TikTok.
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