North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

December 2, 2005 Edition

Lee Fobbs appointed head football coach

It's Cool to be Smart
Dr. Karen Guy, director of student teaching; Sharon Hoard, director of North Carolina Teaching Fellows; Aggie the bulldog; and Nataki Watson, office assistant for Teaching Fellows at Falkener Elementary School

Aggies Promote "It's Cool to be Smart"

N.C. A&T's School of Education was busy in November promoting American Education Week. Aggie leaders took advantage of this opportunity to share the important role education plays in society. Education Dean Lelia Vickers led special visits with some of her faculty, staff, students and the Aggie bulldog to local public schools. Dressed in "It's Cool to be Smart" T-shirts for their inspiring presentations, Aggies commended and rewarded outstanding students with special sunglasses. "It's Cool to be Smart" was imprinted on one side of the sunglasses and "NC A&T School of Education" was on the other side of the glasses.

Local Alpha Lambda Delta Chapter Sweeps Major National Awards

The N.C. A&T chapter won The Order of the Torch, an annual award for the most outstanding chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta in the nation. They were recognized along with the University of California-Riverside, Georgia State University , the University of Houston and Montana State University-Bozeman.
Rashawnda S. Daniels, an A&T psychology and education double major from Portsmouth , Va. , was the recipient of the Jo Anne J. Trow Award. Daniels has a 4.0 grade point average and is currently studying abroad at Macquarie University in Sydney , Australia . The Trow Award was started in 1988 to honor a past national president of ALD. Winners received $1,000.

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Lee Fobbs Jr., has been appointed head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University, director of athletics Dee Todd announced Friday during a press conference at the Bryan Fitness and Wellness Center.

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Two associate professors at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University were recently awarded a Rehabilitation Services Administration Capacity Building grant by the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $1,123,027 to develop a certificate program in the Rehabilitation of Racial and Ethnic Minorities with Behavioral Addictions (REMBA).

The professors are Dr. Tyra Turner Whittaker, program coordinator of the M.S. human resources (rehabilitation counseling) program and Dr. Miriam Wagner, GEAR UP Project director.

The five-year grant will focus on preparing culturally competent rehabilitation counselors who will be uniquely trained to meet the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities with behavioral addictions. Such addictions include, but are not limited to, alcohol and other drug abuse, gambling addiction, sexual addiction, eating disorders and criminal offense. The REMBA grant offers several scholarships, graduate research assistantships and paid internships in addictions.

Also, the REMBA grant will host an annual addictions summit and develop the Center for Addictions Research of Racial and Ethnic Minorities. For more information, contact Whittaker at (336) 334-7916.

Peter Heineman, a very successful entrepreneur who is the Interdisciplinary Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business (ICEEB) first Entrepreneur-in-Residence. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Heineman will meet one on one with students to counsel and mentor them about venture creation, speak with student organizations, conduct workshops for student entrepreneurs and serve as guest speaker to classes.

Heineman, co-founded Homarus, Inc., a national smoked fish processing and distributing company in 1973. Beginning with a home-made fish smoker in his parent's backyard, he grew the company from 18 clients in three months to over 2000 nationwide in 1998 when he sold the business. His signature product the smoked salmon, earned him the title, “Salmon King.”

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The University Choir

The University Choir at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will have its annual fall/holiday concert 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Memorial Student Union - Stallings Ballroom.

The choir will perform its traditional carols and African American spirituals. In addition, there will be special selections from Handel’s Messiah with guest soloists Sonya Bennett-Brown (soprano) and Lillie Harris (mezzo-soprano).

The prelude music will be performed by the N.C. A&T Woodwind Ensemble directed by William Smiley.
Jerrye W. Mooring is director of the choir. This event is free and open to the public.

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Tom Joyner will deliver the commencement address

Tom Joyner, host of the leading nationally syndicated morning radio show, Tom Joyner Morning Show, will deliver the commencement address for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Annual Fall Commencement Exercise.

The ceremony will be held Saturday. Dec. 17 at the Greensboro Coliseum. The lineup begins at 8 a.m.
and the ceremony starts at 8:30 a.m. More than 740 students will receive degrees. Joyner, a native of Tuskegee, Ala., is founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, BlackAmericaWeb.com, and host of the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Show on television.

The 2005 Broadcasting and Cable Magazine Hall of Fame inductee has won numerous awards and honors including the prestigious Marconi Award as the nation’s leading network/syndicated personality in the country. In 2004, Joyner was listed as one of Newsday’s “Top 20 ‘Who’s Got Juice List,”’ and in 1999, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Savoy magazine named him 2002 Person of the Year.

Joyner received four Billboard magazine’s Best Urban Contemporary Air Personality awards and Impact magazine’s Joe Loris Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
Additionally, he received the Hubert Humphrey Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the prestigious “Good Samaritan” award from the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation, an Essence Award and was named Impact’s Best DJ of the Year so many times that this honor has been renamed the Tom Joyner Award.

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