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  • Innovation Earns University Coveted Apple Distinguished School Designation

    - When the COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions to shut down on-campus, face-to-face learning, it provided Norfolk State with an avenue to respond to the challenge of delivering teaching and learning in a way that was innovative, proactive, and transformative.

  • Oral History Project Captures Alumni Stories

    - “The oral history project allows us to tell the story of Norfolk State through our alumni,” says Assistant Vice President for Development Shana Z. James. “It is allowing us to celebrate the memories and experiences our students had while they were here on campus – how Norfolk State impacted their lives and careers.”

  • Faculty and Staff Recognized

    - This story highlights recent promotion, tenure, and recent retirees for NSU Faculty and Staff.

  • NSU is National News

    - While Norfolk State University has a well-established reputation, NSU made national news more than usual over the past months. Here is a sampling of the news that received national attention.

  • Distinguished Faculty Awards Fall 2022

    - Norfolk State University recognized four distinguished faculty members at the Fall 2022 Opening Conference on Tuesday, Aug. 16. President Javaune Adams-Gaston, Ph.D., presented the Distinguished Faculty Awards before the conference’s assembled faculty, staff, and administrators in the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center.

  • Department Helps New NSU Students Excel

    - Learning to become an effective college student is a skill that can be difficult to master. For the past five years, Norfolk State has supported new students through the Student Pathways and Academic Formation Department as they develop that skill.

  • Discovery of Hidden Family Roots

    - Discovery Of Hidden Family Roots Brings Peace And Wholeness

  • Faculty Member Adopts School

    - The assistant professor of social work has “adopted” a school and made a commitment to helping improve education for the children in the village of Lethe and the surrounding communities.

  • First In The NFL

    - Hard Work, Perseverance Leads 2006 Alumna To Become First Female African American NFL Official

  • A Life Well Lived

    - Marie Valentine McDemmond — educator, accomplished leader, visionary, mentor, and “the first” in many aspects of her career — passed away July 27, 2022. She was 76 years old. She leaves a void in her family, the Norfolk State University community, and in the world of educators in the Commonwealth and beyond.

  • Missy Elliot honored at NSU graduation

    - Norfolk State University bestowed the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and the Commencement Presidential Medallion upon singer, songwriter and producer Missy Elliott at the University's 109th Commencement Ceremony. Elliott served as the commencement keynote speaker.

  • NSU Engineering Professor Receives Coveted National Career Award

    - All of these are examples of potential applications from a research project that Hongzhi Guo, Ph.D., assistant professor of engineering at Norfolk State, is conducting. He recently received a $499,337 award from the National Science Foundation.

  • Alumna Defies Stereotypes

    - Alumna Defies Stereotypes to Become Accomplished Black Scientist and Role Model. Even though the popular film “Hidden Figures” featured smart, strong Black women blazing trails a generation ago at NASA’s Hampton, Virginia, facility, today’s image of a scientist is still likely to be one of an “old white guy” in a lab coat. And that’s what Korie Grayson, Ph.D., (B.S. ’12), biomedical engineer and chemical engineering researcher, wants to change. The attractive 31-year-old Black woman, who listens to R&B and Afrobeat music and describes herself as a foodie, a wine enthusiast and a workout junkie, is just one example of what a scientist is today.

  • NSU and Pharrell Team Up

    - Norfolk State University hosted a business economic forum Thursday, Oct. 28, held by entertainment entrepreneur Pharrell Williams. The mogul’s “The Elephant in the Room” was a business economic panel discussion aimed at helping move the region’s economic development forward.

  • Spartan Inovation Academy Program

    - Provides Apple Devices to Every Student and Faculty Member Norfolk State University launched the Spartan Innovation Academy program last fall, a new initiative that provides students, faculty and staff with access to industry-leading technology and specialized training for app development. NSU is the first Historically Black

  • Intellectual Property Education In HBCUs

    - Intellectual property needs to be protected yet students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are often not taught the process of how to do so. Dr. Kevin C. Santiago, assistant professor of engineering at Norfolk State, plans to change that with the help of a $25,000 Michelson grant.

  • Proposed ONE School of Public Health

    - Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School (O.N.E.) agreed in August to work toward establishing Virginia's first school of public health. The proposed O.N.E. School of Public Health (ONE SPH) would be only the third collaborative of it's kind in the country.

  • NSU Achieves Level II Authority

    - T he restructured higher education financial and administrative act of 2005 allows for public colleges and universities to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Governor and respective cabinet Secretaries to receive additional authority in three areas, capital outlay, information technology, and procurement

  • Alumnus Credits NSU Experience with Acquiring Position with Netflix

    - Alumnus credits NSU experience with acquiring position with Netflix - Now he is helping the next generation of Spartans to grab opportunities in Silicon Valley

  • Behold Q&A – Dr. J

    - Q: What effect has the pandemic and the marches for racial just had on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in terms of their visibility?

  • Netflix Partnership

    - Netflix Partnership Seen as Helping to Build Black Talent Pipeline to High-Tech

  • NSU Receives $40 Million Gift

    - NSU Receives Transformation and Historical $40 Million Gift

  • Resilience and Innovation

    - With a pandemic that has directly or indirectly impacted us all, multiple acts of violence projected on communities of color, and political unrest, we have all felt an overwhelming burden. Countless lives around us have been lost including some of those in our NSU community.

  • NSU Alumna Works to Develop COVID-19 Test​

    - NSU Alumna Works to Develop COVID-19 Test​

  • A Crowning Glory: The Crown Act and History of Natural Hair​

    - A Crowning Glory: The Crown Act and History of Natural Hair​