Tryan L. McMickens, Ed.D., is lead co-editor of the first issue of Black College Men’s Mental Health.
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![Cisco](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/Cisco.jpg?h=3bf43047&itok=7OFGGcW5)
Technology and networking hardware company Cisco Systems Inc. has contributed equipment and technical services to NCCU to enhance the university’s ongoing $5 million campus network upgrade.
![J.D. Clement Early College High School](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/CHIB6222.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=dP7eweht)
Nestled on NCCU's campus, J.D. Clement Early College High School is named a 2019 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.
![Focus on the Future](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/Focus%20on%20the%20Future.jpg?h=29bb14f2&itok=3Jib4CqB)
UNC-TV PBS will premiere “Focus on the Future: Innovations at NC's Historically Minority-Serving Institutions” featuring NCCU Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye.
![Powwow 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/Powwow.jpg?h=6f8e8448&itok=9XsVhFFL)
NCCU Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) and Department of Diversity and Inclusion will present the 2nd Annual Soaring Eagle Powwow on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, 12 p.m.
![BRITE](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/BRITE.jpg?h=9b72f515&itok=paS-u7o0)
NCCU Associate Professor Dayami Lopez was awarded a $1.48 million grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences to study new means of treating high cholesterol and preventing heart disease.
![Bookstore items](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/CDBL6162_0.jpg?h=9f16abef&itok=CUm3vtxw)
The NCCU Bookstore will be open in Latham Parking Deck, as well as pop-up shops on campus and at the NCCU alumni host hotel, Sheraton Imperial Hotel Raleigh-Durham Airport, during Homecoming week.
![Founder's Day Speaker 2019 Alumnus Elwood Callahan](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-11/Founders%20Day%20Speaker%20on%20Podium.jpg?h=c3635fa2&itok=NRW3dNBm)
The Class of 1969 was honored, along with the man who made North Carolina Central University possible, Dr. James E. Shepard, during Founder’s Day Convocation Friday, Nov. 8.
![Drummer](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-08/_CHI7553.jpg?h=790be497&itok=VATDpwgb)
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 at the university’s annual benefit concert
![Campus Police](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-07/Campus%20Police.png?h=ecf36410&itok=DrZguHtw)
NCCU has been named one of the safest college campuses in the nation by Alarms.org, the official website for the National Council for Home Safety and Security.
![10-Year Arrest Trends](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-07/10-Year%20Arrest%20Trends.png?h=3dd7038e&itok=sWlPFUh3)
NCCU's Juvenile Justice Institute found a steady reduction in misdemeanor arrests starting in 2008 as part of an investigation into low-level crime arrests in Durham from 2007 to 2016.
![Little Royals and Junior Royals Court 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-07/Royal%20Court.jpeg?h=10d202d3&itok=SwPCl3tb)
North Carolina Central University’s Royal Court will host its annual Little Royals fundraising pageant at 5 p.m., Sept. 21, featuring the theme Alice in Wonderland.
![Patrick R. Liverpool](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_320x180/public/2019-06/pliverpool.jpg?h=747f8c4a&itok=mkfPIUiS)
Patrick R. Liverpool, Ph.D., a veteran administrator and senior academic leader, has been appointed to serve as NCCU interim provost and vice chancellor of Academic Affairs effective June 1, 2019.