Soaring Eagles

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has been awarded $355,000 to help build a community of genomic data scientists committed to addressing health disparities. 

Carresse Gerald, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental, earth and geospatial sciences, researches how dust in hog husbandry facilities affects the breathing of workers and and pigs.

Latorius Adams, ‘10, educates people on how to maintain healthy brains and assists patients with Huntington’s Disease and their families.

Student-athlete Juan Velarde is one of only 22 college football players in the nation to earn distinguished recognition for exemplary community impact as a member of the 2023 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®.

The latest album by Lenora Helm Hammonds, D.M.A., called “Journeywoman,” concerns the odyssey of an archetypal woman who struggles with birth, death and self-definition.

Among those participants will be Ezeji Nwanaji-Enwerem and Taya Davis from North Carolina Central University (NCCU).

Gift will support the continued curriculum development, marketing and student recruitment efforts for the newly-renamed Michael P. Johnson Business Administration Program.

Darlene Eberhardt-Burke, Ph.D., has been named one of 17 faculty members in the University of North Carolina (UNC) System to receive the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Teaching.  

At the age of 22, Brittany Reaves has made history as being one of the youngest students to ever graduate from the law school, earning degrees from the joint juris doctor/ Master of Arts in History program.

Netanya Dennis, a chemistry and psychology double major, will be the first Eagle to begin Yale University’s Ph.D. program in interdepartmental neuroscience in fall 2023.

With a week left to the grand finale of the NCCU spring semester, mass communication major Victoria Cooper-Thompson has already achieved her goal of becoming a news reporter before earning her degree.

NCCU wasn’t biomedical sciences major Andrew Barber’s first choice, but given his family’s strong legacy at the university, he knew that the Eagles would provide him with top-notch resources to help him soar.