05/22/2020 in Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Students
N.C. A&T couldn’t participate in an in-person ceremony this spring, but the university will still honor them with an unforgettable send-off Saturday, May 23, in a Virtual Graduation Celebration.
05/22/2020 in Students
Second Lt. Kristofer Grimes represents the third generation of the Grimes family commissioned in the U.S. Air Force Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
05/18/2020 in Admissions, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Employees, Students
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, strategic changes have been made to the fall academic calendar to help minimize community spread of the virus while delivering an outstanding education for A&T students.
05/15/2020 in Academic Affairs
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University juniors Brenda Caldwell and Joanna Martinez have been selected for the 2020 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute.
05/15/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The College of Science and Technology (CoST) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University selected 26 incoming freshmen to join the second cohort of SciTech Scholars for the 2020-21 academic school year. The SciTech Scholars Enrichment Program provides two-year renewable merit- and need-based scholarships to high school seniors who plan to study chemistry, physics, mathematics or electronics technology.
05/15/2020 in Research and Economic Development
The Centers of Excellence at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University hosted the webinar “3D Printing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Hand-Made Face Masks Design for COVID-19” led by Salil Desai, Ph.D., and Geetika Jaiswal, Ph.D., May 14.
05/14/2020
On Saturday, May 16, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will join forces with more than 75 schools honoring over 30,000 seniors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country during the “Show Me Your Walk HBCU Edition” commencement, presented by Chase.
05/14/2020 in Academic Affairs, College of Science and Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University graduating senior Kailyn Price has been awarded the Maria Leonard Graduate Fellowship, the top fellowship offered by Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society.
05/08/2020 in Academic Affairs
Tonya Smith-Jackson, Ph.D., senior vice provost for academic affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been appointed to the North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Board of Science, Technology and Innovation.
05/07/2020 in Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Students
Starting Friday night, May 8, business, organization and education locations around Greensboro will sparkle with blue and gold lights to honor the Spring 2020 graduates of both North Carolina A&T and UNC Greensboro.
05/06/2020 in Academic Affairs
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has announced its newest cohort of Lewis and Elizabeth Dowdy Scholars. These 20 academically talented freshmen will join the Aggie family as members of the class of 2024.
05/06/2020 in Academic Affairs
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has announced its newest cohort of Cheatham-White Scholarship recipients, who are among the highest-achieving students expected to enroll this fall as members of the class of 2024.
05/06/2020 in Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
For Cooperative Extension at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a call to action that Extension has answered with a full-throttle effort to help limited-resource families and farmers withstand an unprecedented crisis.
05/06/2020 in Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) honored its spring graduates virtually in its second annual Celebration of Excellence event on May 1. Approximately 100 participants joined to support and recognize the culmination of their graduate studies and notable accomplishments during their time at JSNN.
05/05/2020 in Academic Affairs, Students, Family & Consumer Sciences, Community and Rural Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 4-H and Youth Development, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
North Carolina A&T has received a $752,632 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for undergraduate food and agricultural sciences scholarships.
05/05/2020 in Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering master’s student Kendall Dawkins has been named a recipient of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship. Dawkins will begin the Ph.D. program at JSNN this fall.
05/04/2020 in Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Students
N.C. A&T plans to celebrate the Spring 2020 graduating class in a variety of ways.
05/01/2020 in Research and Economic Development
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will present a free COVID-19 webinar series this month to provide information and tools to help entrepreneurs and members of the public survive the challenges presented by the novel coronavirus.
04/30/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Earlier this month, N.C. A&T received two of 18 awards to HBCUs from the National Park Service for the preservation of historic campus structures.
04/30/2020 in College of Engineering
Researchers in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University received an $810,000 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve reliability by studying real-time fault diagnosis of self-driving vehicles.
04/28/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disease (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health awarded $5.7 million to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and three North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) consortium partners. The award will support shared technological infrastructure for advancing innovative diabetes research and fostering interinstitutional collaborations in North Carolina.
04/24/2020 in Academic Affairs, College of Education
N.C. A&T has tapped Washington State University administrator and professor Paula Groves Price, Ph.D., as the next dean of the College of Education (CEd).
04/24/2020 in Alumni
N.C. A&T set to dissolve its relationship with the N.C. A&T State University Alumni Association Inc.
04/22/2020 in College of Science and Technology
David Vermillion, a graduating physics student and Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC) cadet at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been selected to join the U.S. Space Force (USSF), a newly-established branch of the Armed Forces. The military service is responsible for organizing, training and equipping forces as a means to protect U.S. and allied interests in space.
04/21/2020 in Academic Affairs
Four undergraduates and a Ph.D. student representing North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University presented their bold and innovative ideas for bringing change to their communities during a virtual showcase.
04/21/2020
The fourth regular full-body meeting of the N.C. A&T Board of Trustees will take place on April 24, 2020, via Zoom webinar at 2 p.m.
04/20/2020 in Academic Affairs, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University African American Studies professor Marcus Anthony Allen was granted a prestigious fellowship with the National Humanities Center (NHC) to continue studying 19th century Baltimore.
04/20/2020 in Research and Economic Development, Students
The Office of Undergraduate Research at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University kicked off Undergraduate Research Week with a virtual symposium hosting approximately 100 students and faculty members April 20.
04/15/2020
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions at N.C. A&T has made several innovative changes to accommodate current and prospective students.
04/15/2020 in Admissions, Student Affairs, Students
In the wake of COVID-19, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has shifted more than classes to the digital space. For the last month, university constituents have found applications like Zoom to be helpful for everything for information sessions to mental health support to additional learning opportunities.
04/14/2020 in College of Engineering
An interdisciplinary team led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received a four-year, $8 million award from NASA to address traffic congestion by developing, testing and eventually deploying air passenger taxis as a supplemental means of transportation.
04/08/2020 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
For more than a decade, Jenora Waterman, Ph.D., has led students and research at N.C. A&T in animal science, specifically functional genomics. This year, Waterman, an associate professor of functional genomics in the CAES, is N.C. A&T’s honoree for the UNC System’s Board of Governors (BOG) Award for Excellence in Teaching.
04/08/2020 in Employees, College of Science and Technology
In its campaign to reduce lead poisoning, the World Health Organization consistently highlights data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which estimated that 1.06 million people died worldwide in 2017 because of lead exposure. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Built Environment at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, conducted a pilot study to determine the role stress plays on cardiovascular disease risk markers in individuals who had been exposed to lead.
04/06/2020 in Students, College of Engineering
In the era of social distancing, college students are finding creative ways to maintain community. HBCUvc fellows from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University are promoting a digital care package to support other students.
04/01/2020
With the United States in a mad dash to make sure everyone was counted in the U.S. Census, two North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students did their part to make sure their peers are in the number.
04/01/2020 in Alumni
As universities shutter campus doors across the nation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aggies are opening their hearts and their wallets to help current students meet basic needs.
03/30/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The online Bachelor of Science in Geomatics program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been ranked No. 3 in best value, according to Guide to Online Schools’ 2020 Best Online GIS Degrees.
03/27/2020 in Academic Affairs
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Student Government Association President Allison Gilmore has been selected as a 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant finalist.
03/27/2020 in Academic Affairs
The North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NC-LSAMP), led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, received a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue efforts to broaden STEM pathways for underrepresented groups.
03/23/2020 in Academic Affairs
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumna Jaylynn Ellington has been selected as a 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant finalist.
03/23/2020 in Academic Affairs, College of Health and Human Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will offer a new degree program, the M.S. in health psychology, through the College of Health and Human Sciences Department of Psychology.
03/12/2020 in Academic Affairs, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University political science student Brenda Caldwell is following the example her grandparents, the late Brenda and Johnny Hodge, set for her while she was growing up in Greensboro.
03/11/2020 in College of Science and Technology
Solomon Bililign, Ph.D., and Yuh-Lang Lin, Ph.D., professors at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, served on the climate advisory panel for the independent, peer-reviewed North Carolina Climate Science Report (NCCSR), released Wednesday, March 11. Bililign also contributed his expertise as a co-author of the report.
03/10/2020 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Two students for the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences were named to USDA’s Future Leaders in Agriculture program.
03/10/2020 in Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
Manish Sharma, Ph.D., an alumnus of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), received the 2020 Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS) ProQuest Dissertation Award at its 50th Annual Conference March 5 in Birmingham.
03/10/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University hosted approximately 100 attendees for Sunshine Day on March 9. Journalists, government officials, attorneys, students and members of the public gathered to discuss government openness and transparency issues facing North Carolina citizens.
03/09/2020 in Students, Chancellor’s Speaker Series
This spring, N.C. A&T is devoting the Chancellor’s Speaker Series, “Mind Over Matter,” to addressing mental health with award-winning actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and mental health advocate, Taraji P. Henson, Thursday, April 14, at 6 p.m., in Harrison Auditorium.
03/06/2020 in Research and Economic Development, College of Business and Economics
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Center of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics offer a series of counseling sessions designed to assist students who own a business or are thinking about starting one.
03/06/2020
A four-week Aggie Business Jumpstart Program meant to help North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students start or grow their own business is scheduled to begin Monday, March 16.
03/05/2020 in College of Engineering
Mohd Anwar, Ph.D., a computer science associate professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, will serve as a panelist for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society North Carolina chapter’s annual spring conference beginning April 30.
03/03/2020 in Alumni, College of Health and Human Sciences
Good fortune played a part in leading North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumna Jazmaine Mayo ’19 to experience a summer abroad – going to London alone and working there for three straight months – serving people who are down on their luck.
03/03/2020 in College of Engineering
Larkin Folsom, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, knows a thing or two about transportation. After all, he makes an hour-long commute from his home to the campus for his studies.
03/02/2020 in Athletics
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams each tallied 165 points to win their fourth straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) indoor track and field championship.
03/02/2020 in College of Health and Human Sciences
The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University School of Nursing has created a partnership with Cone Health to pilot test the health equity toolkit created by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), AARP and AARP Foundation.
03/01/2020
In advance of any potential threats, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has issued a travel advisory to its campus community and developed a new coronavirus information website, for reference and bookmarking.
02/28/2020 in College of Science and Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University hosted 34 Verizon Innovative Learning program mentors and directors Feb. 21 as part of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship’s (NACCE) Mentoring Professional Development Institute.
02/27/2020
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University dedicated its Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics on Feb. 27 with a ceremony, tours and official presentation that attracted hundreds of luminaries representing the scope of Deese’s influence.
02/27/2020 in Alumni, College of Business and Economics
The Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University recognized its latest Hall of Fame inductees, as well as the donors who have contributed to the college’s success, with a celebratory dinner and ceremony Feb. 26.
02/26/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Business and Economics
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Live Nation Urban and Piedmont Triad native and Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Chris Paul, through the Chris Paul Family Foundation, have teamed up to establish a formalized internship pipeline between the university and the company.
02/26/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received one of 15 limited edition portfolios by renowned photographic artist Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe as a gift from Bank of America.
02/25/2020 in Academic Affairs
N.C. A&T has tapped former U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and physician, alumna Nicole Calloway Rankins M.D. ’98 to keynote the 2020 spring undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies, respectively. The undergraduate ceremony will take place Saturday, May 9, 8:30 a.m., and the graduate ceremony at 1 p.m., both at the Greensboro Coliseum.
02/24/2020 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s annual tribute to small-scale agriculture begins March 22 with events and educational programs designed to inform the public and provide research-based information to support small farmers.
02/24/2020 in College of Science and Technology
The College of Science and Technology (CoST) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will engage Guilford County students in hands-on STEM activities beginning Monday, March 16, during its 2020 SciTech Week.
02/24/2020
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumnus Willie A. Deese ’77 has begun a series of letters designed to push the university’s capital campaign, The Power of Do, past its goal of raising more than $100 million by Dec. 31, 2020.
02/20/2020 in Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) hosted approximately 80 middle and high school girls and their parents on Feb. 15 as part of the third annual Find Your STEM conference presented by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Greensboro chapter.
02/20/2020 in Employees, Students
In advance of expected inclement weather and poor traveling conditions later today, North Carolina A&T will move to Condition 2 at 2 p.m., with classes and events cancelled for the rest of the day and evening and the university on suspended operations.
02/20/2020 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
More than 250 industry partners, Extension agents and farmers from across the state came to the campus of North Carolina A&T on Feb. 11 to learn the latest tips and information for growing industrial hemp during the university’s first Hemp Conference.
02/19/2020 in College of Engineering
Rashmi Kumari, a chemical engineering major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been recognized as the 2020 Namaskar Award winner during the annual Engineers Week reception and banquet on Feb. 18.
02/17/2020 in Research and Economic Development
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University announced Steven D. Cook ’82 ’85 has been named a scholar-in-residence at the Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research, Education, and Outreach (CREO) and Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D., has been named a visiting scholar at the Center of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and CREO.
02/17/2020 in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
One event can change a life forever, which is what four young girls from Newark, New Jersey discover after a night on the town in the big city.
02/17/2020 in Research and Economic Development, College of Engineering
A new patent from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will improve nondestructive evaluation methods for subsurface aircraft defects. The patent, “Normalized Defect Characterization of Pulse Thermographic Nondestructive Evaluation,” was awarded to mechanical engineering professor Mannur J. Sundaresan, Ph.D., and his former advisee, Letchuman Sripragash, Ph.D.
02/10/2020 in College of Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University received $50,000 from Downtown Greensboro, Inc. (DGI) that will go toward prototyping and deploying two self-driving shuttles. The funds will be allocated to the newly established North Carolina Transportation Center of Excellence in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology (NC-CAV) at N.C. A&T’s College of Engineering (COE).
02/06/2020 in Athletics
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 7, 2020) – Come July 1, 2021, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will be a full member of the Big South Conference. The move was announced at a press conference Friday morning on the N.C. A&T campus.
02/05/2020
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 5, 2020) – The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Board of Trustees will hold a special called meeting, at 8 a.m., Friday, Feb. 7, in the Chancellor’s Boardroom (Dowdy Rm. 424). A copy of the agenda is attached for review.
02/03/2020
Hundreds came to the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University on Friday morning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the A&T Four’s peaceful sit-in at Woolworth’s Department Store to seek equal service.
02/03/2020 in Athletics
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will establish a sports performance center to be named for 1975 alumni and longtime Aggie Athletic Foundation supporters Darnell S. Glover Sr. and Carolyn Harrison Glover.
01/30/2020
Two-time N.C. A&T alumna and U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, is the university’s 2020 Human Rights Medal Recipient.
01/27/2020 in Alumni
Feb. 1, 1960 is the day four courageous freshmen sat down to protest the segregated lunch counters at the F.W. Woolworth's store on Elm Street. Feb. 2, 1960, the four became 16 and many of those participants are still referred to as, "The Fifth Freshman."
01/24/2020 in Students, College of Engineering, The Graduate College
N.C. A&T graduate computer science student, Cody Byrd recently received the North Carolina Sixth District Community Hero award for January.
01/22/2020 in Academic Affairs
Center for Academic Excellence staff members volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
01/21/2020 in College of Engineering
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a junior majoring in computer science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, is the first Aggie selected to participate in Google’s most recent effort to increase diversity in the classroom and the workplace.
01/17/2020
Echoing Green, in partnership with Fund II Foundation, is bringing its Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Master Class to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
01/17/2020
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students Tyler Huggins, Joseph Smith and Kiana Williams have been named to the prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP).
01/16/2020 in Alumni, Employees, Students
N.C. A&T will celebrate the life and legacy of alumnus Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D., at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Deese Ballroom, located in the Student Center, on campus.
01/10/2020 in Admissions, Academic Affairs
The online undergraduate degree program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been ranked among the state’s top programs, according to Value Colleges’ Best Online Colleges in North Carolina for 2020.
01/09/2020 in Research and Economic Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Shengmin Sang, Ph.D., and his colleagues at Columbia University are planning to study ginger's effect on asthma as the recipients of a four-year, $1.8 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Highly competitive, R01 grants fund health-related research and development.
01/09/2020 in Student Affairs, Students
N.C. A&T and UNC Greensboro will join hands once again for the annual Joint Commemorative Program to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Harrison Auditorium.
01/09/2020 in Students
In celebration of the courageous and brave acts of Jibreel Khazan (formally Ezell Blair Jr.), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond – known collectively as the A&T Four – N.C. A&T will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Feb. 1, 1960 Sit-In with it Commemorative Program, beginning at 7 a.m., Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, with special guest speaker, Roland Martin.
