Kestrel McCorkle named a 2014 CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant

  Kestrel McCorkle, a NCSU Plant Pathology PhD student, was awarded a CALS Outstanding Teaching Award for 2014. As a recipient of this award, Kestrel was awarded a plaque and a check for $1000 for her contributions to teaching with the Department of Plant Pathology. Kestrel was also honored at …

Plant Pathology alumnus, Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini, named Agriculture and Livestock Minister of Costa Rica

Felipe earned his Ph.D. in 1990 in Plant Pathology under the direction of Dr. Turner Sutton. Some in the media have made much of the number of lawyers in the new administration of Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera. But current and past professors outnumber the lawyers two to one in the …

Plant Pathology Graduate Students Visit High School Biology Classes

Plant Pathology Graduate Students Visit High School Biology Classes

Graduate students in the Department of Plant Pathology have an active outreach group.  In addition to participating in large outreach events like Bugfest and Triangle SciTech Expo at the Museum of Natural Sciences, they also visit local high schools to spread the word about how plant pathologists use biotechnology to …