Soaring Eagles

NCCU's 2022 Ultimate Homecoming Experience festivities will kick off Sunday, Oct. 30 through Saturday, Nov. 5 with concerts featuring Ledisi, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Kierra Sheard and Young Nudy.

Grammy and Stellar Award-nominated artist Marcus Anderson ’07, will return to NCCU to celebrate the five-year anniversary of his annual Jazz AND Coffee Escape on July 27-29, 2023.

Derrick Stanfield, a spring 2022 graduate of North Carolina Central University (NCCU), was named a 2022-2023 Presidential Scholar for the University of North Carolina (UNC) System.

When Olesia Headen arrived at North Carolina Central University in fall 2019, she had already earned an associate’s degree in science education.

Community service has always been important to Taylor Dorsey-Flowers, a Durham, N.C., native and co-founder of the nonprofit organization GROWTH NC.

For Sheriff Mansaray, ’22, the injustices he witnessed within the healthcare system in his home country of Sierra Leone in West Africa, inspired his dream to become a nurse.

On May 7, Christie Smith will be the first graduate of the visual impairment master’s program with a concentration in assistive technology for individuals with visual impairments.

Frederick Serrano-Jimenez always wanted to go to law school but it was during a gap year after obtaining his bachelor’s degree when he decided he should enroll sooner rather than later.

Hospitality management has always been Shanae Bryant’s passion. On May 6, 2022, she will receive her bachelor’s degree with plans to pursue her MBA and continue to grow and scale her business.

Julie Horvath, Ph.D., research associate professor of biological and biomedical sciences, is studying rhesus macaque monkeys to learn how a myriad of factors affect human health.

Dr. Siobahn Day Grady, assistant professor of information sciences, and her father Sherwin Thomas Day are the first father-daughter duo to endow a scholarship at NCCU.

Two NCCU English professors have been awarded a two-year, $98,420 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will enable the duo to digitize the university’s history.