Soaring Eagles

As a youth pastor, Kelvin Nixon Jr. believes that a higher power led him to North Carolina Central University (NCCU).

NCCU Council of Department Chairs has announced that Emmanuel Oritsejafor, professor and chair of Department of Political Science, will begin his term of service as chair of the organization.

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.