News

May 16, 2019

New Faculty: Andrew Neilson

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – The interaction of the gut microbiome with human health is an emerging field in biology, nutrition and medicine.  With the addition of Andrew Neilson, Ph.D., NC State University’s Plants for Human… 

Apr 12, 2019

New Faculty: Abdulkerim Eroğlu

Abdulkerim “Kerim” Eroğlu, PhD, set up his nutrigenomics lab at the NC Research Campus in August 2018 when he joined the Plants for Human Health Institute. He was featured in… 

Oct 9, 2018

HPC FAQs

Welcome to the HPC FAQs page News, tutorials and common command examples will be posted here 

Feb 14, 2018

FFAR Awards $1 Million Grant to Improve Health through Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2018 –  The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit established in the 2014 Farm Bill with bipartisan congressional support, awarded a $1 million Seeding Solutions… 

Dec 14, 2017

High School Culinary Student finds Recipe for Success

KANNAPOLIS, NC — For an eager culinary arts student, the challenge was intriguing: Find a palatable culinary use for watermelon concentrate. Samuel Jijon (Sammy), a senior at A.L. Brown High… 

Oct 24, 2017

Cooking challenge has kids clamoring for a taste of fresh lettuce

Chef Mark and his fifth grade sous-chefs first did a demo preparing the Star Wars Fruit Salad and all the fifth grade students got sampling. Then, two teams faced off… 

Sep 14, 2017

Video: Equipping Tomorrow’s Workforce through P2EP

PHHI is proud to be a partner in the Plant Pathways Elucidation Project. This video features the research happenings of Kelsey Zielinski’s intern team, while Dr. Mary Ann Lila discusses… 

Aug 25, 2017

PHHI Extension and Lowe’s Heroes install grant-awarded school garden

CONCORD- When Pitts School Road Elementary students go back to school next week, they will be surprised by a colorful, new garden set up to teach them lessons across all… 

Aug 15, 2017

Dole and PHHI team up to investigate disease threatening bananas

There’s a problem in the world of bananas. The fungal disease black sigatoka is infecting banana leaves, reducing yield by up to 50 percent. The disease is devastating Cavendish bananas,… 

Aug 7, 2017

Chinese students visit PHHI as part of the Global Training Initiative

Seventeen college students from 4 Chinese universities are visiting PHHI at the NC Research Campus as they wrap up a 3-week visit to the United States. Dr. Keith Harris, the…