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caMpUs highlights
Four seniors from the College of Business and
Economics (COBE)—GreGory sTeWarT, Kyra
mClaren, TreVor nelson and hunTer WaTson
(pictured left to right)—were awarded $1,200 and job
offers for their second-place win at Cisco’s first national
Faculty, staff & administrators, cont. students college Supply Chain Operations Case Competition. The
event was April 1, at the company’s headquarters
in California.

COBE’s 1891 Logistics Team was selected from 26 schools
as one of six finalists to attend the competition. The case
competition gives students from Cisco’s targeted supply
chain colleges and universities a chance to test their
North Carolina A&T has been awarded Each participating department understanding of the supply chain industry and present
a collaborative research grant from will have a volunteer faculty innovative solutions to a panel of judges.
the NSF Alliances for Graduate member interested in historically
Education and the Professoriate underrepresented student success A&T’s team worked on solving problems related to
(AGEP) program. “AGEP North issues designated as an AGEP-NC the circular economy used by Cisco that strives to
Carolina Alliance: An Institutional Faculty Fellow. The Fellow will receive maximize output while minimizing the amount of raw
Transformation Model to Increase support and training on mentoring, materials used.
Minority STEM Doctoral Student the experiences of underrepresented Other finalists were Arizona State University, California
and Faculty Success” is a five-year, minority students, and fostering Polytechnic University, Georgia Institute of Technology
$761,280 grant that seeks to address a change. Each Fellow will work (third-place winner), Howard University (first place) and
critical issue of underrepresentation of together with their department head, Michigan State University.
African-American and Hispanic/Latinx graduate program coordinator, and
students in STEM disciplines. departmental faculty colleagues
to understand graduate student
The lead researcher on the grant, pathways, identify practices and
KeiTh sChimmel, Ph.d., is director policies that promote success, and
of N.C. A&T’s applied science and diagnose trouble spots. Two North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State To qualify for the scholarships, students must be enrolled
technology (AST) doctoral program in University students are recipients of a new scholarship full-time at one of the 47 TMCF member-schools; earn a
the College of Science and Technology Based on this study of the graduate awarded through a partnership with Honda and Thurgood cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher; demonstrate leadership
(CoST). student experience in their own Marshall College Fund (TMCF). qualities and community service experience; and be

department, the faculty will then recommended by a faculty or staff member of their
Schimmel and his team are develop a departmental plan to build dymon aTKinson, sophomore engineering student, current school. In addition to financial support, scholarship
collaborating with researchers and these insights into departmental and marVin edGe, first-generation business student, recipients will be invited to interview for internships and co-
officials at North Carolina State practices and procedures. Project are recipients of a new scholarship awarded through op positions at one of 12 facilities in America where Honda
University and the University of North funding will be available to help a partnership with Honda and Thurgood Marshall manufactures vehicles, engines, transmissions, as well as
Carolina at Charlotte to develop, implement initiatives identified in College Fund (TMCF) to support students pursuing an aircraft, aircraft engines, power equipment and side-by-side
implement, and study a model to the plans. education in engineering, supply chain management and and all-terrain vehicles.
create institutional, department-level, manufacturing-related fields.

and faculty change and promote Along with Schimmel, the A&T
doctoral completion and progression research team consists of aBdellah
to faculty careers among historically ahmidouCh, Ph.d., CoST dean; aJiT
underrepresented doctoral students in KelKar, Ph.d., nanoengineering
STEM disciplines. chairman; John KiZiTo, Ph.d., allison Gilmore, diamond
mechanical engineering professor; and manGum and armani may (pictured
C. dean CamPBell, Ph.d., assistant left to right) will serve as president of
dean for academic services in The the Student Government Association,
Graduate College. Miss N.C. A&T and Mister N.C. A&T,
respectively, for the 2019–2020 academic
year.
Other SGA officers include ViCToria
laWson, vice president of external
affairs; aaliyah WriGhT, secretary;
and Brenda CaldWell, attorney
general.
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