Soaring Eagles

Angelique Stallings, ’97, was recently named vice president of Community Investment at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce.

NCCU Mass Communication student Manuhe Abebe was recently selected for the HBCUvc fellowship.

NCCU is the recipient of a 2021 NIH grant to support highly innovative and broadly impactful biomedical or behavioral research through the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.

NCCU Music Professor Candace Bailey, Ph.D., has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

NCCU alumnus Ibrahim Cissé, Ph.D., ’04 was named one of 25 MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Fellows in the Class of 2021.

For Ryan Bethea, '14, the lessons he learned from NCCU's Geospatial Sciences Program helped him to cultivate a successful oyster business.

Lauretta Hasty Holloway, an alumna of NCCU, was recently named to The National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame. Holloway was honored for her influential contributions to education.

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

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.