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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