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EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 3, 2025) – A junior at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been selected as a 2025-26 Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Human Rights’ John Lewis Young Leaders (JLYL) program fellow. T. Olu Rouse, an Honors College economics and political science double-major from Raleigh, North Carolina, will join 15 students from public and private universities nationwide in this year-long fellowship designed to equip undergraduates with skills in

Watch the Video North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Honors College student Catherine R. Wilson has been selected as one of only five students nationwide out of more than 600 applicants for the highly competitive, inaugural National Science Foundation (NSF) Skilled Training in Administration and Institutional Research (STAIR) Internship Program. She will also have the opportunity to receive a travel award to attend and present at the NSF STAIR Summit at

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (March 17, 2025) — Research by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students Kyla Holton and Jayden Seay, along with junior political science Honors College student Keon Jordan, is shedding new light on the role historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played in shaping social justice movements. Jordan, who co-authored and proofread the in-progress paper, contributed to the research's thorough analysis

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 13, 2025) – Two North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students have been selected as 2024 Astronaut Scholars. This scholarship is awarded annually to undergraduates in their junior and senior years who demonstrate high academic achievement and are pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees. Honors College students Breyana Robinson and Kennedy West each received up to $15,000 for eligi

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

Khelsei Dorsett-Wilson, left, and Charles-Anthony Woodfork EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Aug. 8, 2024) – The White House Initiative (WHI) on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has selected North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students Khelsei Dorsett-Wilson and Charles-Anthony Woodfork as 2024 HBCU Competitiveness Scholars. “As high-achieving North Carolina A&T students, Khelsei and Charles-Anthony are advancing the human condition through the

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 22, 2024) – Two North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University undergraduate students have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Du Bois Scholars program at Harvard University. Jacquelle Joseph-Lainez, of Freeport, New York, is a rising third-year Honors College student studying biology and Jayden Seay, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is a rising fourth-year Honors College student and February One Scholar studying secondary education w

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 12, 2023) – Arianna Mackey has been named North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s first Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP) recipient. Launched by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in January 2021 in the aftermath of 2020’s racial injustice protests, MMSP is a groundbreaking pipeline program that endows the South with the next generation of civil rights lawyers trained to provide legal advocacy of unparalleled excellence in

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. (June 10, 2022) – The White House Initiative (WHI) on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has selected North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students Sullivan G. Anderson and Tiera A. Henderson as 2022 HBCU Competitiveness Scholars. Anderson and Henderson are among 86 students who were chosen from 56 HBCUs nationwide to receive the initiative’s highest honor based on academic achievements, campus leadership, civic en

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. (Aug. 5, 2021) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumnae Malique Brunner ’19, ’20 and Joanna Martinez ’20 are finalists and Anderlyn Smith ’21 is an alternate for the 2021-22 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant. This is the first time North Carolina A&T has had more than one endorsed candidate advance past the semifinalist stage for the Fulbright Program grant. It is also the first time more than one endorsed Aggie has been ch

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

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 11, 2021) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has five semifinalists in this year’s Fulbright Program grant cycle – Jasmine Armstrong, Nasya Blackwell, Malique Brunner, Joanna Martinez and Anderlyn Smith. This is the N.C. A&T’s largest group of semifinalists since at least 2018. “We are elated that so many of A&T’s Fulbright Program grant applicants have been recognized nationally and will move forward to be considered by t

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (May 15, 2020) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University juniors Brenda Caldwell and Joanna Martinez have been selected for the 2020 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute. This marks the first time two Aggies have been chosen for the program in the same year. “Congratulations to Brenda and Joanna for this remarkable achievement,” said Margaret I. Kanipes, Ph.D., North Carolina A&T Honors Program directo

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (March 12, 2020) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University political science student Brenda Caldwell is following the example her grandparents, the late Brenda and Johnny Hodge, set for her while she was growing up in Greensboro. As she nears the end of her junior year, Caldwell continues to receive recognition for the impact she is having on the campus and the outside community. Caldwell has been named a 2020 finalist for the Truman S

Kailyn Price is NC A&T's Third PPIA JSI Fellow Kailyn Price, a senior biology student and Dowdy Scholar from Huntersville, NC, was selected in spring 2019 as NC A&T State University's third Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) recipient and the first recipient from NC A&T since 2000. She participated in the summer 2019 program at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The PPIA JSI program is ri