IMPLEMENTATION OF ACADEMIC RESTRUCTURING SLATED FOR FALL 2016
To ensure graduates of North Carolina A&T State University are prepared to meet challenges and create innovative solutions to complex problems in the global marketplace, the provost and a pair of committees have drafted a plan to restructure the university’s academic enterprise.
FOR REVISED ADVERSE WEATHER AND EMERGENCY POLICY, THINK ABC AND 1-2-3
When adverse weather strikes, the safety of North Carolina A&T State University’s students and employees is of utmost importance.
SACSCOC INTERIM REPORT DUE IN MARCH
North Carolina A&T State University was reaffirmed in 2010, and its fifth-year interim report is due in March.
N.C. A&T TO HOST 2016 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE
For the fourth consecutive year, students from the constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina will convene at North Carolina A&T State University for the Social Entrepreneurship Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in the Alumni-Foundation Event Center.
Aggie Advantage Employee Discount Program
In an effort to offer the best benefits and opportunities to N.C. A&T employees, the university now offers the Aggie Advantage discount program, which is designed to save A&T faculty and staff money on local and national products and services. The program offers significant discounts and savings across various categories including food and restaurants, electronics and wireless phone services, entertainment and recreation, apartment homes and travel services, as well as several university amenities, services and goods. Aggie Advantage is available to all permanent employees. Exceptions may be made on a discount-by-discount basis. Retirees of the university are also eligible to participate. Details about the program and specific vendor information are available online.
2016 Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Awards
The nomination period for the 2016 N.C. A&T Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis Awards is open. The award represents appreciation for excellence in research. Each nominated thesis and dissertation will be reviewed and evaluated by an awards committee on the basis of clarity of style and presentation, scholarship, research methodology, contributions to the field or discipline and broader impact.
Each dean or their designee may nominate one person whose thesis/dissertation has been accepted in partial fulfillment of master’s/doctoral degree requirements during the 2015 calendar year including summer sessions. Nominations from departments to the respective deans are due Monday, Feb. 22. Deans’ nominations are due to The Graduate School on Tuesday, March 1. An electronic file of the nomination materials should be submitted to A. Ayanna Boyd-Williams, assistant dean, at ayannabw@ncat.edu. Winners will be announced Friday, April 1.
SAES Research Apprenticeship Program
High school students have until Monday, Feb. 29, to apply for the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP), which will be June 19–July 15. The on-campus residential program is for students who will be rising juniors and seniors this summer. Students accepted into the program will be financially compensated. Applications are available online.
Pictorial History Book
Copies of “Mens et Manus: A Pictorial History of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University” are still available at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at N.C. A&T. This limited-edition hardcover book is the collector’s item you will be proud to own! Books may be purchased in-store or online by visiting ncat.bncollege.com. Individuals who are unable to purchase in-store or online may call 336-334-7593 and ask for the mail orders department. Phone orders will be processed using a secure form for credit cards. For check purchases, payment must be received by the store before the product will ship out. The address for the bookstore is Barnes & Noble at NC A&T State University, Attn.: General Merchandise, 1601 E. Market St., Brown Hall, Greensboro, NC 27411.
125 Service Projects
As a land-grant university, N.C. A&T has a special responsibility to strategically partner with groups and individuals locally, nationally and globally to make a lasting, positive impact on social and environmental challenges that proactively respond to the needs of others. As an extension of the university’s commitment, and as part of the university’s 125th anniversary observance, a challenge has been issued to all students, alumni, faculty and staff to actively participate in a service project in their respective communities. Get approval and register projects online. For information on how to have your service project designated as part of the celebration, visit www.ncat.edu/125/service-projects.html.
Dr. Zerihun Assefa, professor and interim chair of chemistry,and former graduate student George Agbeworvi have published a peer reviewed article, “Higher coordinate gold(I) complexes with the weak Lewis base tri(4-fluorophenyl) phosphine. Synthesis, structural, luminescence, and DFT studies,”in The Journal of Molecular Structure (Vol. 1108, 15 March 2016, pp. 508-515). Agbeworvi is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Purdue University.
Dr. Solomon Bililign, professor of physics and principal investigator (PI), along with co-PI Dr. Marc Fiddler, adjunct professor and co-PI, received a $488,281 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Atmospheric Chemistry Program, to study optical and chemical properties of biomass burning aerosols.
Bililign’s atmospheric chemistry/physics research group will conduct a laboratory study to investigate how the chemical and optical properties of biomass burning aerosols (soot) change as they age in the atmosphere and how they impact global and regional climate systems. Considering the extensive use of biomass fuel in the developing world and increased occurrence of wild fires in the United States, such controlled laboratory studies are of significant importance and will aid remote and satellite measurements. Some of the measurements will also be done at the laboratory of Dr. Jason Surratt, associate professor at the UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, through contracts.
Dr. Loury Ollison Floyd, associate professor and associate dean in the School of Education, has been invited to serve as a member of the advisory board for the BRIDGES Academic Leadership Program for Women. Floyd will serve as an advisory board member for a three-year period.
Now in its 24th year, BRIDGES is an intensive professional development experience designed for women who seek to gain or strengthen their academic leadership capabilities. The program, which is sponsored by UNC Chapel Hill, received national recognition as the 2013 recipient of the American Council on Education’s State Network Leadership Award. BRIDGES has nearly 800 alumnae working in various faculty and administrative positions in North Carolina institutions of higher education and around the country.
Erin Hill Hart has been appointed associate vice provost for enrollment management, effective Feb. 1. Hart has 14 years of leadership experience as a higher education administrator, most recently serving as assistant vice president for enrollment management at Delaware State University. The Baton Rouge native earned a B.A. degree in communication and M.S. in higher education administration from Appalachian State University.
The associate vice provost for enrollment management serves as the chief enrollment officer with principal responsibility for developing a comprehensive enrollment management plan that fosters an integrative recruitment and admission effort consistent with the university’s strategic goals and direction. This position has direct managerial responsibility and oversight for the Offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, the Registrar and New Student Programs.
Dr. Luba Kurkalova, professor with the Department of Economics and Department of Energy and Environmental Systems, has been awarded a Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. The fellowship sponsors activities that encourage the academic and professional development of individuals (especially women) conducting economic analyses of food, agricultural or natural resource issues. The fellowship, which comes with a $2,500 grant, will help establish the mentor-mentee relationship between Kurkalova and Dr. Moriah Bostian, a junior economics faculty member at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon.
FEB 12 | 3–4 p.m.
Autonomous Control and Info
Tech (ACIT) Seminar
Topic: “5G Wireless Communication
Networks” and “Drought Forecasting
Using the Hidden Markov Model”
Speakers: Niloofar Bahadori and
Norbert A. Agana (N.C. A&T
Ph.D. students)
Location: Fort IRC Building,
Room 410
FEB 13 | 2 p.m.
N.C. A&T Women’s Basketball:
Lady Aggies vs. FAMU Rattlers
Location: Corbett Sports Center
and Lock TV
FEB 13 | 4 p.m.
N.C. A&T Men’s Basketball:
Aggies vs. FAMU Rattlers
Location: Corbett Sports Center
and Lock TV
FEB 14 | 10 a.m.
N.C. A&T Men’s Tennis:
Aggies vs. Appalachian Mountaineers
Location: Aggie Tennis Complex
FEB 15 | 5:30 p.m.
N.C. A&T Women’s Basketball:
Lady Aggies vs. Bethune-Cookman
Wildcats
Location: Corbett Sports Center
and Lock TV
FEB 15 | 7:30 p.m.
N.C. A&T Men’s Basketball:
Aggies vs. Bethune-Cookman
Wildcats
Location: Corbett Sports Center
and Lock TV
FEB 16 | 9 a.m.–3:15 p.m.
2016 Social Entrepreneurship
Conference
Location: Alumni-Foundation
Event Center
FEB 16 | 10:30 a.m.–noon
25Live Training
Location: McNair Hall,
Room 223
Contact: University Event
Center, 336-285-2580
FEB 16 | 3–4:30 p.m.
25Live Training
Location: Proctor Hall,
Room 214
Contact: University Event
Center, 336-285-2580
FEB 17 | 10:30 a.m.–noon
25Live Training
Location: McNair Hall,
Room 223
Contact: University Event
Center, 336-285-2580
FEB 17 | 3–4 p.m.
Research Administrators
Council Meeting
Speaker: Veronica Sills
(Assistant Coordinator, Title IX)
Location: Fort IRC Building,
Room 410
FEB 17 | 3–4:30 p.m.
25Live Training
Location: Proctor Hall,
Room 214
Contact: University Event
Center, 336-285-2580
FEB 18 | 3–4:30 p.m.
N.C. A&T Board of Trustees
Endowment Committee Meeting
Location: Dowdy Building,
Room 424-A
Contact: Janese Fails,
336-334-7940
FEB 18 | 4 p.m.
School of Business and Economics
Closing Bell Speaker Series
Speaker: Curtis Ellis (All About People)
Location: Merrick Hall, Room 125
Contact: Jeanene Milanak
FEB 19 | 2–5 p.m.
N.C. A&T Board of Trustees Meeting
Location: Alumni-Foundation
Event Center, Room 103
Contact: Janese Fails, 336-334-7940
FEB 19 | TBA
N.C. A&T Women’s Bowling
Aggie Master’s Challenge
Location: All-Star Lanes (Greensboro)
FEB 20 | 10 a.m.–noon
Minority Men’s Health Initiative’s
Community Engagement Forum
on “Fighting Diabetes in African
American Communities”
Location: Windsor Recreation
Center (1601 East Gate City
Boulevard, 27401)
Contact: George Crawford,
336-285-2176
FEB 23 | 2–4 p.m.
Movie: “The Untold Story of
Emmett Louis Till”
Location: Murphy Hall,
Room 204
FEB 23 | 7 p.m.
Fabric of Freedom: A Mr. Josephus
Thompson III Production
Location: Harrison Auditorium
FEB 26
Winter Agricultural Literacy
Fest for High School Students
Locations: Main Campus and
University Farm
FEB 28 | 6 p.m.
Remembrance Vigil:
Honoring Our Fallen
Brothers and Sisters
Location: Village Quad
Reflection Pool
FEB 29
Application deadline for the
Faculty Scholars Program
Click here for information
FEB 29 | 5 p.m.
Deadline to submit nominees
for the 2016 N.C. A&T
Research Excellence Awards
Contact: Dr. Mitzi Bond,
336-285-3172
MAR 1–2 | 7:30 p.m.
Ailey II: The Next Generation
of Dance
Location: Harrison Auditorium
Contact: N.C. A&T Ticket Office,
336-334-7749
MONDAYS 5:30 p.m.
Triad Perspectives TV Show
TWC Channel 69
Information: Kenneth DeVanney,
336-285-2066
TUESDAYS 5:45–6:45 p.m.
Progressive Toastmasters Meeting
Location: General Classroom
Building, Room A116
Information: Willene Rucker,
336-285-4746
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Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr.
CHIEF OF STAFF
Nicole Pride
ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR
FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
Nanyamka A. Farrelly
EDITOR
Sandra M. Brown
PRODUCTION
Yvonne L. Halley
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STAFF WRITERS
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CONTRIBUTORS
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