Soaring Eagles

An associate professor of music at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has received the ASCAP Plus Award for 2025.

In August 2024, she returned to NCCU after a 21-year hiatus.

“I usually don’t sit at a computer for 24 hours,” Nadeem said. “You have a first time for everything.”

Wearing gloves, they collected six to ten oysters at each site. Along the way, they tested temperature, salinity, conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), pH and dissolved oxygen (DO).

Puerto Rico regularly experiences natural hazards, and over the past eight years has experienced a series of climate disasters, with Hurricane Maria in 2017 perhaps being the worst in recent years.

The summer housing improvement project was, in fact, one of the most extensive in university history.

Jose decided to study law in the interest of promoting fairness. “Law does tend toward that,” he said. “It makes me kind of angry when things aren’t fair.”

Teddy Spivey, proud NCCU alumnus and Duke IT analyst, powers research across NC through NCShare. From cutting-edge GPUs to constant Eagle Pride, he helps students and scientists change the world - rack by rack.

Almost three years after graduation, Stanfield hasn’t slowed down.

Shelby Thomas plans to continue the family tradition of helping others.

Rachelle S. Gold, Ph.D. is leading an effort to preserve the stories of NCCU alumnae through CLEOPATRA — Collected Lady Eagle Oral-History Project and Training Research Acumen.

“Art is the human experience held still for a moment,” said Hulme. “I do that in music, to some extent."