Cumberland International Early College student graduates Fayetteville State at 18 Mikayla Raines was one of hundreds of Fayetteville State University students to walk across the stage at the sesquicentennial commencement to accept their degree. Raines, however, is not your typical college graduate. She was a student of the Cumberland International Early College High School at …
Progress continues around the planning process for the Western Campus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) to be located in Morganton, with numerous meetings and planning sessions to be held during the month of May, and the launch of a new online dashboard to share details and milestones of the new …
Turning STEM into STEAM at UNCSA by merging technology with the arts Lindsay Bierman wants to make sure his students are on the cutting edge of science and technology. At first, that might seem like an odd aspiration for the chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, whose students study everything …
Sgt. Jacob Deal of the Western Carolina University Police Department is recipient of the UNC System’s Officer of the Year Award for Outstanding and Exceptional Service in recognition of his work in campus outreach activities, including those focusing on sexual assault prevention. Deal, a member of the WCU Police Department since February 2011, received the award …
UNC campuses help rural NC areas become ‘smart and connected communities’ Arcot Rajasekar knows there’s a technology gap between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. Rajasekar, who serves as the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said rural grade school students …
UNC GA grant supports Appalachian, New River Light and Power and energy research across UNC system Over the past decade, Appalachian State University has amassed one of the largest and the most diverse portfolio of renewable energy facilities in the state of North Carolina. The university is home to the state’s largest wind turbine and …
From exploring the role social media can play in healing America’s divides to increasing diversity in the tech industry to combatting Islamophobia online, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students engaged Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a wide-ranging and thoughtful conversation as part of the inaugural Chancellor’s Town Hall on March 13. …
UNC Asheville’s new maker space combines efforts of engineering, arts students It would be easy to consider the University of North Carolina at Asheville’s first-ever team competing at the SAE College Design Series an underdog. But operating out of the newly opened STEAM Studio, a 12,000 square-foot maker space located in downtown Asheville that opened …
New WSSU program has university’s legal counsel mentoring students considering law school Asia Dukes knew she wanted to become a lawyer. As a then-junior at Winston-Salem State University, the Charlotte native worked voluntarily as part of the legal advocacy group that helped free Kalvin Michael Smith from nearly two decades of incarceration after he was …
The auditorium of the Mickey L. Burnim Fine Arts Center on the campus of Elizabeth City State University was packed Friday, March 10, when Chancellor Thomas E.H. Conway Jr., was officially installed as the sixth chancellor and 11th chief executive officer of the historic university. Presided over by UNC System President Margaret Spellings, the ceremony …