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- Norfolk State University launched the public phase of its most ambitious fundraising campaign in University history Saturday, September 14, 2024. The comprehensive campaign has a goal of $90 million and will culminate during the University’s 90th anniversary in 2025. It is only Norfolk State’s second major campaign. The first took place 30 years ago.
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- Jawn Murray’s career is nothing short of extraordinary. As an executive producer, TV host, commentator, pop culture expert, and media personality, he has crafted an incredible career portfolio. An NAACP Image Award winner and Telly Award recipient, Murray, who attended Norfolk State in the late ’90s/early 2000s, is now the executive producer of the nationally syndicated talk show Sherri, hosted by Sherri Shepherd.
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- When parents envision the life they want for their children, it sometimes includes achievements they were never given the opportunity to achieve.
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- There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of policies that allow college athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness (NIL).
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- The American Library Association
(ALA) has been tracking book bans
and/or challenges for more than 20
years. In 2023, the number of book
titles targeted for censorship, ban or challenge rose
65% compared to 2022.
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- Through many health initiatives, Dr. Shelia Ward has supported Norfolk State University students, faculty and staff, and its surrounding community.
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- “This was such a wonderful
opportunity, and more
companies at the level of
Swarovski need to offer such
partnerships to HBCU fashion
students.”
— Christy Frederick
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- Nada Edwards ’24 walked across the stage to receive her Bachelor’s degree at Norfolk State’s Spring Commencement Ceremony following an accident in 2017 that left her in a coma for several months and without the use of her arms and legs. When she walked across the stage, the entire stadium came to its feet, cheering her on. Edwards’s next goal--walking under her own power when she receives her Master’s degree.
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- 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.
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- “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.”
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- This story highlights recent promotion, tenure, and recent retirees for NSU Faculty and Staff.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Discovery Of Hidden Family Roots Brings Peace And Wholeness
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- 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.
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- Hard Work, Perseverance Leads 2006 Alumna To Become First Female African American NFL Official
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Alumnus credits NSU experience with acquiring position with Netflix - Now he is helping the next generation of Spartans to grab opportunities in Silicon Valley
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- Q: What effect has the pandemic and the marches for racial just had on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in terms of their visibility?
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- Netflix Partnership Seen as Helping to Build Black Talent Pipeline to High-Tech
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- NSU Receives Transformation and Historical $40 Million Gift
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- 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.
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- NSU Alumna Works to Develop COVID-19 Test
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- A Crowning Glory: The Crown Act and History of Natural Hair