Category: Family and Consumer Sciences
Supporting mothers, helping infants, transforming lives
The postgraduate human lactation program at North Carolina A&T State University is only four years old, but already it’s diversifying a profession, operating a community clinic and graduating new professionals dedicated to improving the health of mothers and their newborn children. Earlier this year, the program hosted a national breastfeeding conference — a first for a Historically Black College and University.
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Staying Up When Life Turned Upside Down
Not too long ago, schools, businesses and public gathering places closed as people huddled in their homes to avoid a new and deadly virus called COVID-19.
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FASHION PROGRAM RECEIVES $100,000 AWARD FROM GAP, ICON 360
N.C. A&T’s Fashion Merchandising and Design Program’s star continues to rise, thanks to a new $100,000 award from clothier The Gap and the nonprofit organization Icon 360, a nonprofit launched in 2020 to support designers of color.
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FCS professor seeks to give yogurt production a sweet boost
Five to ten thousand years ago, when the first cow, goat or sheep herders in Mesopotamia discovered that they could not only eat the fermented milk that their warm climate had produced, but that they could make it tasty, the culinary world gained an asset: yogurt was born.
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