N.C. A&T Renews Plan to Work Closely with EPA
The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this month, pledging to work together to boost opportunities for students at EPA; encourage their participation in EPA programs; make national employment opportunities available to them; and advance environmental education.
N.C. A&T’s delegation included Sr. Vice Provost Valerie Giddings; Deans Clay Gloster, Shirley Hymon-Parker and Frances-Ward Johnson; and Professors Benjamin Uwakweh, Chantel Simpson, George Robinson and Godfrey Uzochukwu from N.C. A&T’s MOU work group. Ph.D. students Nicholas Chance and Justin Shane Henderson also attended the event.
Among the U.S. EPA representatives are Lara Phelps, director of the Air Methods and Characterization Division; Louie Rivers, social science lead, Office of Research and Development; Samuel Scott, program analyst; Rhea Jones, deputy director, Health and Environmental Impacts Division; Hillary Ward, Community and Tribal Program group leader.
Graduate Students Learn New Platform
A group of graduate students were among the first to receive training on the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences’ new Agricultural Analytics Platform, a data-modeling tool developed for the college by SAS Institute. Funded by the N.C. General Assembly, the SAS platform will help students, researchers and growers model and scale their data, helping them arrive at solutions faster.
