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A&T PREEMINENCE 2020

PREMIER

RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY-FOCUSED
INSTITUTION

N.C. A&T faculty made fiscal year 2017
the university’s most successful ever in
securing support for research programs,
earning $62.5 million in contracts and
grants. The total represented growth of
240 percent since 2000–01, included
awards to 259 principal investigators
across a wide range of disciplines and
added to A&T’s status as the third most
productive research campus in the Innovation
University of North Carolina System.
lives here.

It always has. The Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Aging and Community Health
(COAACH)—a university-sponsored center addressing literacy, care
management, training and research in Alzheimer’s and other aging related
diseases such as diabetes—further distinguished itself as the nation’s
leading research and outreach center focusing primarily on the disease’s
disproportionate impact on African Americans, who are diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group.

COAACH announced or received more than $2.8 million in private support and
research funding in 2016-17, including major gifts from the Merck Foundation
and alumnus Willie Deese. This financial support will extend the center’s
ability to solidify local and state-level partnerships, educate and engage North
Carolina’s most vulnerable populations and create a sustainable model for
NO. 3 Building upon a 2013 gift from Merck and Deese that helped to establish the
community-based support.

center, this latest financial commitment will enable COAACH to establish a
RESEARCH CAMPUS Caregiver College to extend education opportunities, implement a Lay Health
IN THE UNC SYSTEM— Advisor Model of Care to broaden outreach into underserved patient and
10+ YEARS caregiver populations, and create a Family Navigation Program to augment its
current early detection and care management programs.

COAACH was prominently featured in an in-depth Washington Post Magazine
article, “African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s.
Why?” by award-winning journalist/author Marita Golden.

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