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A&T PREEMINENCE 2020

N.C. A&T is a community of academic

excellence and opportunity.

With a drive for academic excellence, N.C. A&T computer science student
ANGELICA WILLIS (right) is a strong advocate for computer science education
and diversity in STEM.

In 2016-17, her senior year, Willis was named a Stanford University Innovation
Fellow by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation
(Epicenter), actively demonstrating the program’s goal of encouraging its
fellows to take the lead and increase campus engagement with innovation,
entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.

As captain of A&T’s winning Black Enterprise TechConneXt Summit BE SMART
hackathon team, Willis was instrumental in creating and developing a fully
functional iOS application that helps users discover all things relative to the
black experience while located anywhere in the nation.

During her matriculation at A&T, Willis was also a White House HBCU All-Star Willis received her Bachelor of
(2015-16), was one of nine individuals selected nationally as a White House Science degree in May 2017. She
Champion of Change for Computer Science in Education, a 2016 CODE2040 accepted a National Science
Fellow and a 2016 Apple HBCU Scholar. She also interned with NASA, working Foundation Graduate Fellowship
on ecological forecasting research with space satellites to support reforestation at Stanford.
in Rwanda and participated in the Google Edge program in 2014.

INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE

In October 2016, N.C. A&T hosted ESPN’s “The Undefeated, A Conversation
with the President: Sports, Race and Achievement,” featuring PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA (above) in dialogue with A&T students during a nationally 11,177 75.13% 650
televised, hour-long presentation.

A&T launched a new campus engagement program in March 2017, the
Chancellor’s Town Hall Series, with debut guest MARK ZUCKERBERG of
Facebook. His dialogue with 300 A&T students has been seen online more Fall 2016 First-year retention rate of Degrees awarded in
than 3.8 million times. enrollment first-time full-time degree- STEM disciplines
seeking undergraduate cohort

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