Join percussion lecturer Thomas Taylor and drummer Joe Chambers for the 13th annual 'Give the Drummer Some' concert and fundraiser on Aug. 24 at Sharp Nine Gallery. Proceeds benefit NCCU Jazz Studies Program.
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A $500K grant from the Walton Family Foundation will help NCCU research career barriers facing young men ages 18–24 in the Triangle region, aiming to create solutions through policy and community engagement.
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While NCCU encourages undergraduates to complete their studies in four years, sometimes life just gets in the way. In December, Felicia Lindsay will collect her degree 40 years after stepping onto campus.
Sometimes teachers inspire students. For Ashley Pointe, her students inspired her to earn a law degree.
A special call meeting of the NCCU Board of Trustees is scheduled for Dec. 1, 2023, at 2 p.m., via video conference call.
Leland Melvin, the first NFL draftee to have flown in space, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 142nd Commencement Exercises, Dec. 9.
On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, NCCU Information Technology Services (ITS) was alerted to a possible cyberintrusion incident on our campus technology systems and began an investigation.
A special call meeting of the NCCU Board of Trustees is scheduled for today, Nov. 13, 2023, at 5 p.m., via video conference call.
A special meeting of the NCCU Board of Trustees is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at 10 a.m., at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
In fall 2022, Yolanda VanRiel, Ph.D., chair of the nursing department, came up with an idea: a food pantry specifically for nursing students.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Paulin and fellow investigator, Tianduo Zhang, partnered with the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Institute (JLC-BBRI) at NCCU.
Nine students from NCCU traveled to Belize, where they had the opportunity to learn more about Garifuna culture.
Antonio Baines, Ph.D., is a cancer pharmacologist at North Carolina Central University (NCCU).
Christopher “Chris” Davis, ’10, has been named assistant vice chancellor for development at NCCU.