North Carolina A&T Alumni in the News

Over the course of two consecutive weekends, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University elevated its national profile as its documentary, “Our Blues Make Us Gold,” earned a Nashville/Midsouth Regional Emmy Award nomination and was later featured during a special screening at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. What began as a project…

Black History has a long and deep legacy at A&T and unknown to many Aggies until recent years, our university directly inspired the creation of “Negro History Week, or what is now called Black History Month.   A&T has a full heritage of being a proud HBCU land grant college and efforts to teach the history of Black Americans are rooted from our earliest faculty. Mrs. Susie B. Dudley (c.1852-1933) the matriarch of theatre arts at…

Alumni chapters of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University have proudly organized the February One Reading Project for a number of years, creating an initiative designed to educate and inspire children across the United States about the powerful legacy of the A&T Four.  Each February, alumni chapter members share the book “Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down” by Andrea…

When Gov. Josh Stein appointed North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumna Alicia Marks Flowers to Superior Court for Judicial District 14B in Cumberland County, North Carolina, it brought her back to the community that shaped her earliest understanding of justice. “This moment represents coming full circle,” she said. “I am returning home to serve the people and the…

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 28, 2026) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University paid tribute to alumnus, physicist and astronaut Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D., Wednesday, Jan. 28, on the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster that took the lives of him and his six fellow crew members. But McNair himself, his life and legacy is what the community…

January 28, 1986, is a date that anyone old enough will remember where they were and what they were doing. Tragically, that morning, only 73 seconds into liftoff, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven astronauts on board. The first fatal shuttle mission in American history, millions worldwide watched this event unfold, a number amplified by extensive live…

Kennedy West, a 2024 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumna and Astronaut Scholar, is continuing her trajectory of academic excellence and service as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, where she is pursuing advanced training in patient-centered care and health equity. West, who earned her B.S. in chemistry from N.C. A&T’s…

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University recognized its fall 2025 graduating class during the Fall Commencement Breakfast and Graduation Rehearsal, an event conducted by the Office of Alumni Relations to celebrate student achievement ahead of graduate and baccalaureate commencement ceremonies held Dec. 12 and 13. The breakfast brought together graduate and undergraduate students, university leadership, faculty and staff to…

A “Blue Christmas” is a holiday season met with loneliness, grief, and sorrow. In the history of North Carolina A&T State University, no Christmastime matches that phrase more than the season of 1955. That was when President Ferdinand Douglas Bluford passed away on Wednesday, December 21, 1955. He was 73 years old and had served A&T for 43 years, 30…

More than 400 enthusiastic Aggies and guests came together May 8-10 for an unforgettable Alumni Reunion Weekend – North Carolina A&T’s largest two-class reunion ever, celebrating the Golden Class of 1975 and the Silver Class of 2000.   Golden and Silver Aggies from Arizona to Massachusetts traveled in to enjoy the festivities and reconnect with classmates. Celebrants gathered at the Alumni…