Academics
Young Takes Home National Teaching Award The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this month named TSUAg Professor and Associate Dean of Academics and Land-Grant Programs Dr. De’Etra Young as a national recipient of the organization’s Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences. The ceremony for the award took place last month, in Seattle. Dr. Young was one of two educators the APLU named winners of the award, which celebrates university faculty for their quality of teaching, service to students, the teaching profession and scholarship of teaching and learning. In recognition of her scholarship, exemplary pedagogy and dedication to instruction Young took back to campus a stipend of $5,000 to be used for improving teaching at TSUAg.
Dr. De’Etra Young (pictured here with USDA NIFA Director Dr. Manjit Misra) was recently named the winner of a national APLU teaching award.
Fall 2023 Student Showcase In October, students, faculty members and representatives of the TSUAg administration assembled for the Fall 2023 Student Showcase, highlighting the experiences of undergraduate students’ summer internship programs. In short, this past summer was a productive one for students at the College. A total of 21 TSUAg undergrads presented their summer internship experiences throughout the country at the Showcase, held Oct. 20 at the Agriculture Information Technology Center on campus. At the event, students who’d participated in summer internships each took their turn at the podium, spending five to 10 minutes presenting their experiences, which ranged from agriculture-focused research projects, to study abroad experiences, to corporate-based non-agriculture projects.
Dean Reddy and Dr. De’Etra Young with the 2023 class of TSUAg summer interns last month at AITC.
USDA’s Williams Leads Career Development Trip The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) TSU liaison Eston Williams and a group of students from the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering took off from campus for an 1890 Land-Grant University-focused career development conference in Atlanta earlier this month. There, the students were educated on the soft skills necessary to enter the job market, spending time updating their resumes and transcripts and even interviewing with USDA officials for positions with the government after graduation.
November 2023 Newsletter | College of Agriculture
TSU students (from left) Amani Matlock, Elana Bodude, Grace Colvin, Reaghan Cohen, USDA liaison Eston Williams, Zaria Bullard, Ruba Nasif, Angelica Smith, and Charity McWilliams recently ventured to Atlanta for an 1890 Land-Grant University-focused career development conference.
