When Kendra Channer has difficulty saying something, she uses her fingers to draw letters in the air. When she meets new people, she starts the conversation by telling them of her medical condition.
In 2022, Devin Freeman roomed with the former student body president of Harvard University while both were interning for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter will deliver the keynote address to graduates on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, for the 134th Commencement Exercises at NCCU.
Two jazz studies majors from N.C. Central University’s department of music were selected as recipients of a four-year scholarship from the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.
More than 7,000 alumni who graduated in years ending in ’4 and ’9 celebrated their class reunions during Homecoming and demonstrated support with contributions that totaled more than $2.2 million.
NCCU researchers have found evidence that prenatal exposure to cannabinoids, the active compounds in marijuana, heightens the risk of developmental abnormalities normally associated with fetal alcohol syndrome.
NCCU concluded the 2018-19 academic year with $33.1 million in grants and other outside funding sources for research, the second-highest funding total in university history.
NCCU instructor and drummer Thomas E. Taylor and New York percussionist/educator Alvin R. Atkinson Jr. will join the impressive gathering of jazz drummers performing on Aug. 25.