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EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 10, 2025) — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has announced its eighth cohort of Cheatham-White Scholarship recipients. These 20 scholars represent some of the highest-achieving students among the class of 2029. The fall 2025 class of academically talented incoming freshmen boast an average cumulative GPA of 4.41. On average, these scholars rank in the top 5 to 10 percent of their graduating high school classes. Fifteen sch

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 2, 2024) — Two North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumni have been selected as semifinalists for the 2024-25 Fulbright Program grant year. Maya Odom and Malachi Williams were selected as semifinalists from a pool of more than 10,000 applicants nationwide. Both graduated as members of the Honors College. Odom, from Crofton, Maryland and daughter of Martin Odom and Nicole Odom, graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in computer

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 23, 2024) – Three North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students have been selected as 2023 Astronaut Scholars, an elite scholarship awarded annually to the nation’s most academically accomplished students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees. N.C. A&T is the first historically Black university (HBCU) to have more than one Astronaut Scholarship available in an application cycle.

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (May 2, 2023) – Kennedy Reid has been named North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s first Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program recipient. Reid will graduate May 13 with a B.S. in economics with a law concentration from the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics. She received the University Award for Academic Excellence during N.C. A&T’s Spring 2023 Honors Convocation, when she served as student

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Aug. 10, 2021) – The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities has selected North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students Milosh McAdoo and Rachel Richards as 2021 HBCU Competitiveness Scholars. As North Carolina A&T Cheatham-White Scholars and members of the University Honors Program (UHP) , McAdoo and Richards are among 86 students who were chosen from 54 HBCUs nationwide to receive the initiative’s h

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (May 24, 2021) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sophomore Kennedy Reid has been selected as a 2021 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program (Rangel SEP) Scholar. Reid, of Greensboro, North Carolina, is a Cheatham-White Scholar who maintains a 4.0 GPA as an economics student with a law concentration in the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics. She is the fourth person from North Carolina A&

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (April 13, 2021) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University junior Rachel Richards has been selected as a 2021 Goldwater Scholar. Named for Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Goldwater Scholarship Program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. A federally funded program and the preeminent undergraduate award of its type, it includes