NEWS RELEASE – April 30, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fourteen students accompanied by advisors from the NC State College of Natural Resources and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences recently attended the National Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS) Career Fair and Training Conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana. The annual affair is designed as a networking and career fair workshop where students from traditional agriculture universities present research papers and posters, interview for summer internships and professional job placements, and network with other students and professionals representing a broad array of food and agricultural related industries.
Several of the students presented oral research papers and posters with three students winning various competitive events which include: 1) Porche’ Spence, CALS Ph.D. Candidate, Soil Science; 2nd place graduate research poster; 2) Wanida Lewis, CALS Ph.D. candidate, Food Science 3rd place graduate oral research competition; and 3) Jasmine Shaw, CNR Masters of Science in Natural Resources graduate student, 2nd place graduate research competition.