This summer, #NCStateCALS Ph.D. student DeShae Dillard spent two weeks learning about North Carolina #agriculture, especially in the state’s northeastern region, where both agriculture and natural resources #conservation are critical to the #economy. . Dillard is among nine Ph.D. students participating in a new NCState program called AgBioFEWS. The program – funded largely by the NSFGov through NC State’s Genetic Engineering and Society Center — kicked off this summer. Its goal is to deepen participants’ technical understanding of agriculture, #biotechnology, ecology and #genetics while also integrating knowledge from other fields related to creating workable agricultural biotechnology #solutions. . Dillard said that visits with #farmers, leaders of environmental agencies and groups, Extension agents, lenders and others gave him a deeper perspective of the impacts of agricultural #biotechnology on people and the #environment. . The AgBioFEWS program challenges you to continuously grow ...