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Hampton University is hosting a computing conference next week that encourages women and minorities to enter the field. The seventh annual Students & Technology in Academia, Research & Service (STARS) Alliance Celebration is August 11-13 at the Embassy Suites in Hampton. The event is an annual leadership conference for faculty and students in the Alliance, which encourages students in middle school [...]

GREENSBORO, July 31, 2012 -  The 2012 North Carolina A&T football season starts in 31 days. The Aggies will have to take a few more preparatory steps before traveling to Conway, S.C., to face Coastal Carolina on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. The Aggie football players will report to preseason camp on Friday, Aug. 3. Their first official practice will [...]

Zimbabwean Businessman Promises $6.4 million for African Students to Attend Morehouse College Strive Masiyiwa , Zimbabwean-born businessman and philanthropist, is making dreams into a reality for 10 students who will be attending Morehouse on a full, four year scholarship in the fall. The young men, 2 from Burundi and 8 from Zimbabwe, are the first class of the new Ambassador [...]

Dr. Rahn Kennedy Bailey, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Meharry Medical College, will be installed as president of the National Medical Association (NMA) on July 31 during the NMA 2012 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in New Orleans. Dr. Bailey will begin his term as the 113th NMA president with a plan [...]

A new program at Johnson C. Smith University will prepare its students live a sustainable lifestyle off the natural land. Students will have the facilities to learn key tools of sustainability such as energy efficiency, water conservation, gardening, and composting. “We are preparing a sustainable village for our students to live, and learn how to become sustainable in their everyday [...]

The Hampton University Department of Computer Science is hosting the Students & Technology Academia, Research & Service (STARS) Alliance Celebration in Hampton this year, August 11-13. The annual conference for faulty and students is aimed to increase interests in computing for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. “We are excited to host the conference in Hampton this year,” stated Dr. [...]

Eight more outstanding individuals in the annals of state prep athletics have been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Donnie Baxter of Asheboro, Ronnie Chavis of Pembroke, Lawrence Dunn of Raleigh, Doug Henderson of Greensboro, Lindsey Page of Burlington, Larry Rhodes of Gastonia, Robert Steele of Salisbury and Jim Taylor of Shelby [...]

Megan Buja (Rockford, Ill.) had one of her best individual finishes of her career recently at the 2012 North Pointe Junior Gold Championships.  Buja tied for fifth place overall, tying Fairleigh Dickinson’s Danielle McEwan in a field of 569 women bowlers in the under 20 division. Buja qualified 10th to make the finals, which took the top 16 bowlers after 25 games. She posted [...]

The Department of Political Science at North Carolina Central University has received a sub-grant of $120,000 through the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP) and the U.S. Department of Education to administer and facilitate a Global Entrepreneurship Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to develop and implement supportive resources and technologies that will integrate theory and practice [...]

The Central State Marauders will open the 2012 season against Stillman College in the annual Dayton Classic on Sunday, September 2 at Welcome Stadium. The Marauders, led by Head Football Coach E.J. Junior, hope to bring home a win in an event that has become a staple during the Labor Day weekend activities around the Dayton, Ohio area. This year marks the Marauders [...]

A former chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Winston-Salem State University died Saturday. Roland Watts, 77, taught at WSSU for 39 years and was known across the Southeast as a skilled woodblock printer. He designed the chancellor’s mace, a rod with an ornamental head, carried during ceremonial occasions at the university. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Velma [...]

Former Morgan State volleyball player and assistant coach Ashley Preston was named Coppin State’s head volleyball coach on Friday, August 20th as announced by Derrick Ramsey, CSU’s director of athletics. “Ashley is one of the rising young stars in college volleyball, and we were fortunate to hire her,” said Ramsey.  “Ashley was very successful in the classroom and on the court [...]

Why should students bother reading a 300-page book nowadays, especially when they have better things to do—like solving that problematic puzzle of how to get their message across on Twitter with less than 140 characters, or finally figuring out the perfect angle in order to take that cute, unorthodox picture in the mirror for their latest Facebook album? Students who [...]

Now that he’s become their starting running back, Pittsburgh Steelers coaches can laugh about how Isaac Redman tanked in his first impression during an NFL training camp.As a nervous undrafted rookie from Division II Bowie State three years ago, Redman almost failing the annual first-day-of-camp conditioning test wasn’t as funny. “I was out of shape,” Redman recalled on Sunday at [...]

  The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina has elected Dr. Steve A. Martin, founder and principal of Martin-Frankel Associates in Winston-Salem, to the Board of Trustees of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) to fill a vacant term that ends on June 30, 2013.   “Dr. Martin has helped the boards of corporations design and administer self-evaluation processes [...]

North Carolina Central University Chancellor Charlie Nelms will retire from his position effective August 6, 2012. Nelms began at NCCU in August 2007. An interim chancellor will be appointed by University of North Carolina General Administration. Highlights of Nelms’ accomplishments include: Developing and implementing a campus-wide Quality Service Initiative (QSI), which has received national recognition from the College and University [...]

After 42 years on the faculty of Howard University, Jacksonville native Frederick Harper retired this spring. On Saturday, Aug. 4, the 69-year-old graduate of Northwestern High School and Edward Waters College will be honored at a dinner at the University Club that will also serve as a fundraiser for Edward Waters. He’ll also do a book signing at 5 p.m. [...]

During the National Urban League’s annual convention in New Orleans, La., President Obama delivered a speech that could be a significant turning point for local HBCUs, Morgan and Coppin State University, who are suffering tremendously from low retention rates. In a crowd of approximately 3,700 supporters, Obama proposed his new executive order, which seeks to improve educational achievement for African [...]