11/19/2020 in Students, College of Business and Economics, College of Engineering
The retail giant is investing $5 million in the nation's largest and top-ranked HBCU to enhance equity on campus and in the workplace.
11/18/2020 in College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
Three student organizations at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University have received a portion of $15,000 donated by Cree | Wolfspeed.
10/16/2020 in College of Engineering
Janelle C. Mason, a North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University computer science Ph.D. candidate, recently interviewed 2019 Abel Prize winner, Karen Uhlenbeck, Ph.D., as part of the eighth Heidelberg Laureate Forum. The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which Mason shared with Jacqueline Godoy Mesquita, Ph.D., a professor of mathematics at the University of Brasília in Brazil, resulted in a humbling and well-deserved experience.
09/30/2020 in College of Engineering
Hyoshin “John” Park, Ph.D., assistant professor of computational data science and engineering (CDSE) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was recently awarded a patent to solve traffic congestion using optimized relocation and placement of portable sensors.
09/18/2020 in College of Engineering
A team of undergraduate, graduate and faculty researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University won a highly competitive $449,052 grant from the Department of the Navy’s HBCU/MI program to collaborate with the Navy on improving radio frequency (RF) communication systems. The research will use gallium nitride (GaN) device technology to create smaller and more efficient solid state-based RF amplifiers.
09/17/2020 in College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University joins IBM’s newly established collaboration today with 13 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to equip students pursuing quantum computing careers. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a multi-year investment, and A&T’s proven strengths in ground-breaking STEM research and academic rigor resulted in the university’s selection and designation as one of five HBCU leading quantum research centers in the partnership.
09/10/2020 in College of Engineering
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a senior computer science student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been selected as a 2020 Astronaut Scholar, becoming the university’s first recipient since 2008.
09/08/2020 in College of Engineering
An interdisciplinary research team at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received $550,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Testbed of Connected Autonomous MicroTransit Vehicles. This funding is in addition to the $235,000 contribution from A&T’s College of Engineering (COE), Downtown Greensboro Incorporated (DGI) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), for an overall investment of $785,000.
07/06/2020 in College of Engineering
Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Ph.D., chair of the civil architectural and environmental engineering department at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, received awards from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Michigan State University (MSU), where she earned her M.S. in chemical engineering and Ph.D. in environmental engineering. Luster-Teasley, an N.C. &T alumna, won the ASEE Environmental Division Service Award and was recognized by MSU with the 2020 Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.
06/18/2020 in College of Engineering
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a rising senior studying computer science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been selected by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities as a 2020 HBCU Competitiveness Scholar. Chukwunyere is among 44 students selected from 33 HBCUs nationwide to receive the initiative’s highest honor based on academic achievements, campus leadership, civic engagement and entrepreneurial spirit.
06/03/2020 in College of Engineering
Graduating mechanical engineering students from the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University achieved distinction for developing the ‘most innovative design’ at the 2019-2020 Sandia National Laboratories Senior Design Bonanza. This is the third year of competition and second in which N.C. A&T participated.
06/01/2020 in Research and Economic Development, College of Engineering
As another hurricane season begins, a computational science and engineering faculty member and two Ph.D. students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University aim to improve tropical forecasting and modeling by deploying drones to collect data from the eye of hurricanes.
04/30/2020 in College of Engineering
Researchers in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University received an $810,000 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve reliability by studying real-time fault diagnosis of self-driving vehicles.
04/14/2020 in College of Engineering
An interdisciplinary team led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received a four-year, $8 million award from NASA to address traffic congestion by developing, testing and eventually deploying air passenger taxis as a supplemental means of transportation.
04/06/2020 in Students, College of Engineering
In the era of social distancing, college students are finding creative ways to maintain community. HBCUvc fellows from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University are promoting a digital care package to support other students.
03/05/2020 in College of Engineering
Mohd Anwar, Ph.D., a computer science associate professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, will serve as a panelist for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society North Carolina chapter’s annual spring conference beginning April 30.
03/03/2020 in College of Engineering
Larkin Folsom, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, knows a thing or two about transportation. After all, he makes an hour-long commute from his home to the campus for his studies.
02/19/2020 in College of Engineering
Rashmi Kumari, a chemical engineering major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has been recognized as the 2020 Namaskar Award winner during the annual Engineers Week reception and banquet on Feb. 18.
02/17/2020 in Research and Economic Development, College of Engineering
A new patent from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will improve nondestructive evaluation methods for subsurface aircraft defects. The patent, “Normalized Defect Characterization of Pulse Thermographic Nondestructive Evaluation,” was awarded to mechanical engineering professor Mannur J. Sundaresan, Ph.D., and his former advisee, Letchuman Sripragash, Ph.D.
02/10/2020 in College of Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University received $50,000 from Downtown Greensboro, Inc. (DGI) that will go toward prototyping and deploying two self-driving shuttles. The funds will be allocated to the newly established North Carolina Transportation Center of Excellence in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology (NC-CAV) at N.C. A&T’s College of Engineering (COE).
01/24/2020 in Students, College of Engineering, The Graduate College
N.C. A&T graduate computer science student, Cody Byrd recently received the North Carolina Sixth District Community Hero award for January.
01/21/2020 in College of Engineering
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a junior majoring in computer science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, is the first Aggie selected to participate in Google’s most recent effort to increase diversity in the classroom and the workplace.
12/17/2019 in College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has chosen a research team at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to establish the NC Transportation Center of Excellence in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology (NC-CAV), a project the agency is funding with a $1-million grant.
11/15/2019 in Academic Affairs, Students, College of Engineering
Two students from the College of Engineering (CoE) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University have been named University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University.
11/06/2019 in Research and Economic Development, College of Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is celebrating a milestone in the construction of its state-of-the-art Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC).
10/30/2019 in Academic Affairs, Employees, College of Engineering
Salil Desai, Ph.D., an industrial and systems engineering professor and interim co-director for the Center of Excellence in Product Design and Advanced Manufacturing at North Carolina Agricultural and State University, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) earlier this month.
10/24/2019 in Academic Affairs, Alumni, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Business and Economics, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Science and Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University celebrated its annual Fall Convocation program Thursday, Oct. 24, in Harrison Auditorium. The program recognized student athletes for their academic and athletic accomplishments and welcomed back alumni for “The Greatest Homecoming on Earth” celebration.
10/04/2019 in Academic Affairs, Students, College of Engineering
The College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University kicked off its third year of participation in the SAE/General Motors AutoDrive Challenge by recognizing the team’s progress and achievements to date.
09/25/2019 in Alumni, College of Engineering
The MacArthur Foundation announced today that Walter Hood ’81, founder and creative director of Hood Design Studio, a landscape architecture firm based in Oakland, California is a 2019 recipient of the “Genius Grant.” The $625,000 award is administered by the MacArthur Fellowship program that is paid out over a five year span, with no strings attached. The grant is given to extraordinary, talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.
09/24/2019 in Alumni, Employees, College of Engineering
Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) will bestow its Educational Leadership Award upon North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. next month.
09/18/2019 in Students, College of Engineering
Students in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University placed first against 12 other historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Black Enterprise 2019 BE SMART Hackathon, winning the event for the third time since its inception.
07/18/2019 in College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, College of Business and Economics, College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology
Faculty researchers at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University earned $64.37 million in contracts and grants in 2018-19, school leaders revealed today.
