Cassandra Bradley has been appointed assistant director of residence life in the Division of Student Affairs, effective Oct. 11. Bradley has worked in housing and residence life for 11 years. Her most recent employment was with Winston-Salem State University as assistant director of housing and residence life. Prior to her transition to WSSU, Bradley worked at Vanderbilt University, Tuskegee University and Indiana University-Bloomington.

Bradley earned her bachelor’s degree at Bellamine University and her master’s degree at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Dr. Quiester Craig, dean of the School of Business and Economics, is one of four deans in the nation chosen as an inaugural inductee into The PhD Project Hall of Fame, which was established to recognize a select few who “have sustained an unwavering commitment to The PhD Project’s mission and whose positive leadership has resulted in significant encouragement and impact within the organization’s network of minority business doctoral students and faculty. The other inductees are Dr. John A. Elliott, dean of the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College; Dr. Andrew J. Policano, dean of The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine; and Dr. Melvin T. Stith, dean of the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. They will be honored at the organization’s annual conference in Chicago, Nov. 16–18.

The PhD Project was created in 1994 to address the severe under-representation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in management by diversifying the front of the classroom, the business school faculty. Some of America’s top companies, academic organizations and more than 250 universities support The PhD Project.

A&T alumna Bonnie Newman Davis has been awarded the News & Record-Janice Bryant Howroyd Endowed Professorship in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. In this role she will be responsible for continuing to produce scholarly publications, mentoring junior faculty and exemplifying the initiative, integrity and service associated with this appointment.

The three-year endowment is awarded to faculty who exemplify scholarly and professional prominence and who display a strong commitment to research, teaching and the development of future leaders. Davis is a former associate professor of journalism at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communication. Before joining academia, she was an editor and a reporter for nearly 20 years with The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and Richmond News Leader.

Davis has a graduate degree in journalism from The University of Michigan in 1980. Earlier this year, she was selected as 2011 Journalism Educator of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

Dr. Anthony Graham (far left), associate professor and chair of the department of curriculum and instruction, and Dr. Kimberly Erwin, assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction, have co-authored a peer-reviewed article, “I Don’t Think Black Men Teach Because How They Get Treated as Students: High-achieving African American Boys’ Perceptions of Teaching as a Career Option.” The article appears in the summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Negro Education (Vol. 80, No.3). The pair also co-authored a peer-reviewed book chapter, "Anger and resentment: African American male youth coping with school-based anger,” in Cyrus Ellis and Jon Carlson’s book, Resiliency, Achievement, and Manhood: Promoting the Healthy Development of African American Men.

In addition, Erwin is the recipient of the Virginia Educational Research Association’s 2011 Brenda Lloyd Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “I do feel important, but not that much: The experiences and perceptions of African American males and their elementary teachers.”

Dr. Shengmin Sang, lead scientist for functional foods at the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, has been selected to receive a Young Investigator Award by the scientific committee of the 2011 International Conference on Food Factors. Sang was selected in recognition of his research with functional foods and human health.

As an award recipient, he will deliver an oral presentation at the organization’s conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 20–23. Sang’s presentation will describe his discoveries on the biological transformation of black tea during digestion, which is important to understanding its health effects. The conference theme is “Food for Wellbeing – From Function to Processing.”

Dr. Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder, professor and chair of the Department of Business Education, received the 2011 Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award at the Association for Business Communication Conference in Montreal, Canada, on Oct. 20. The national award recognizes, encourages and rewards excellence in teaching business communication. Ironically, the late Dr. Meada Gibbs was a faculty member and chair in the same department at N.C. A&T. Snyder presented a paper at the conference, “Strategies for Integrating Technology Skills in Business Communication Classes.”

Dr. Leonard Williams, lead scientist for food safety and microbiology and interim director of the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, has been awarded an Andrew Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellowship by the Salzburg Global Seminar. The fellowship will fund Williams’ travel to, and attendance at, the “Transforming Agricultural Development and Production in Africa: Closing Gender Gaps in Policy and Practice” seminar in Salzburg, Austria, Nov. 13–17.

The Salzburg Global Seminar organizes international gatherings of leaders in academia, government, business and non-profit organizations at its historic campus in Salzburg, where they test ideas and develop solutions to global problems. Emphasis is placed on developing cutting-edge ideas and proposals for action. The seminar offers the opportunity to apply for the competitive fellowship to faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to enable their attendance at seminars that mesh with their leadership goals.”

Dr. Meeshay Williams-Wheeler, assistant professor of child development and family studies in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, has published an article, “Practice What You Teach: Advises a Family Life Educator,” in the October 2011 issue of Women in Higher Education.