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President Joe Biden has appointed NCCU alumna Peggy G. Carr, Ph.D., ’76, as commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics.

NCCU students Chisom Ezenwenyi and Philomena Onasanya were named American Heart Association HBCU Scholars.

Siobahn Day Grady, Ph.D., turned a childhood interest in science into a career in computers and artificial intelligence, and encourages others to do the same.

NCCU alumnus Anthony Jackson, ’93, was appointed superintendent of Chatham County Schools in Pittsboro, N.C. beginning in July.

Kevonne Holloway, ’00, was recently named managing director for Global Education, Reference and Continuity at Elsevier, an international leader in medical, and scientific information and analytics.

NCCU junior Efhe Ikharo and senior Derrick Stanfield have been named as 2021 HBCU Scholars by the White House Initiative on HBCUs, a program that recognizes outstanding student performance in higher education.

NCCU Department of Music student Jawan Davidson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Amazon Music’s Your Future Is Now initiative.

NCCU Assistant Professor Charles Denton Johnson, Ph.D., will be the principal investigator on a $148,817 grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to document the history of a Durham community.

Johnny Green Jr., ’99, has been named president and general manager of CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in the New York City news market.

NCCU School of Business students earned first place in the Student Ambassador Stock Market Competition sponsored by the Society for Financial Education & Professional Development Inc.

Brittany Baker’s passion for health promotion is apparent in her efforts to aid underserved communities in fighting the coronavirus.

The era of cassette mix tapes has come and gone, and some fear important information is being lost as technology progresses.