“Diabetes and heart disease are the number one killer in this county,” Gerald said. “It is nothing to run into someone who has had a leg or limb removed due to diabetes and the food that they eat.”
NCCU won $10,000 in the 2019 Food Lion Feeds Collegiate Hunger Challenge, a contest aimed at alleviating issues of hunger and food insecurity in the local community.
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI), with The Whether, a minority-owned recruitment marketing platform, has named four NCCU students to the Mary Ellen Pleasant Entrepreneur program.