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PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH ARE FOCUS OF NEWLY FUNDED
RESEARCH AT NCCU
TOMEKA WARD-SATTERFIELD
NAMED ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OF
THE YEAR
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Upon election by her peers, Tomeka
Ward-Satterfield, Assistant Principal at East Chapel Hill
High, was recently named Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools Assistant Principal of the Year. Ward-Satterfield
has served in public education since 1998, and has been
employed at East Chapel Hill High since 2009. Prior to
her arrival, she served as a teacher assistant, teacher
and counselor in Durham Public Schools, and as an
assistant principal in the Alamance-Burlington School
System. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in English
at North Carolina Central University in 1998, WardSatterfield continued her studies and earned her Master
of School Administration in 2001.
SAINT AUGUSTINE’S UNIVERSITY AWARDED $200,000 GRANT
FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RALEIGH, NC – Saint Augustine’s University
was awarded a two-year grant for $200,000
from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Undergraduate Program Research Initiation.
Dr. Mark A. Melton, Dean of the School of
Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering,
will serve as the principal investigator. The
grant will help expose students to ‘cuttingedge’ bench research beyond summer
internships, better prepare students for the
rigors of graduate studies and increase the
number of underrepresented minorities that
elect to pursue advanced degrees and careers in the a science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) field. The award starts August 15, 2014 and ends July 31, 2016.
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DURHAM, NC - Dr. Liju Yang, assistant professor of pharmaceutical
sciences at North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise
(BRITE) has received a grant of $497,723 from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
to develop better methods of isolating and concentrating diseasecausing microorganisms in food samples. Yang’s work involves
carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are extremely tiny tubes formed by
carbon atoms that may be used to transport and deliver antibodies
to specific sites within the body and combat illness. The NIFA grant was one of 25 awarded
to universities for work involving food safety, and one of just two received by a Historically
Black College or University (HBCU).
NCCU’s Institute for Homeland Security and Workforce Development, founded nine years
ago as part of the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences, has become national leader in the field of training for emergency management and
security preparedness, particularly in rural and underserved areas. In 2010, the Institute
received $1.8 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to train faithbased and community organizations in emergency preparedness. The Institute’s “Mobilizing
Faith-Based Communities in Preparing for Disaster” has been offered 31 times in 28 cities
with participants from 17 states. A recently awarded federal grant of a $100,000 will allow
the institute to continue this work. “NCCU has played a major role in strengthening the
resiliency of numerous communities throughout the U.S.,” said Lonnie Lawson, president
and CEO of the Center for Rural Development, which oversees a national collaboration
known as the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium.
MONIQUE HOLSEY-HYMAN HONORED FOR VOLUNTEER WORK
DURHAM, NC - Professor Monique Holsey-Hyman, cu