Kaia Franklin, Tiffany Fullar, Latisha McNmil and Adrionno Scott worm thm 1997-98 Civitan Scholarship
winnors.
Four A&T education students receive
$500 scholarships from Civitan Club
Greensboro ? Four stu
dents in the School of
Education at North Carolina A&T
State University recently received
scholarships of $500 each from the
Greensboro Civitan Club.
The 1997-98 scholarship win
ners are Latisha McNeil of
Greensboro, a junior majoring in
special education; Kaia Franklin
of Baltimore, Md.. a senior major
ing in elementary education;
Adnenne Scott of Taylorsville. a
junior majoring in elementary edu
cation; and Tiffany Fuller of
Burlington, a senior majoring in
health and physical education.
The Greensboro Civitan Club
is the oldest Civitan club in
Greensboro. Its A&T scholarship
program was established in 1989.
Dr. Jesse Marshall, a club member
who retired after 20 years as A&T's
vice chancellor for student affair^,
serves as the liaison between the
club and A&T. The program is
designed to provide support for
students in A&T's School of
Education.
Undergrads present research at A&T s
SOARS conference, almost 200 attend
GREENSBORO ? Nearly
200 students and faculty members
from colleges and universities
across North Carolina participated
in the annual SOARS
Undergraduate Research
Conference at North Carolina
A&T State University.
The two-day conference, Nov.
13-14, featured more than 70 oral
and poster presentations of
research conducted by undergrad
uate students in the natural sci
ences, mathematics, engineering,
the humanities, behavioral and
social sciences, and education.
The banquet speaker was Dr.
Shirley McBay, president of the
Quality Education for Minorities
Network, a nonprofit organization
that was established to help imple
ment recommendations contained
in the QEM Project's action plan
for providing quality education for
minorities.
"We definitely had one of the
most successful SOARS confer
ences to date," said Dr. Alvin
Kennedy, an A&T assistant profes
sor of chemistry and the 1997
coordinator.
Dr. Vallie Guthrie, an A&T
chemistry professor who also
serves as director of the
Greensboro Area Mathematics
and Science Education Center, was
conference chair.
SOARS, which stands for
Seizing Opportunities for
Advancing Research Scholars, is
an annual event sponsored by the
North Carolina Council for
Undergraduate Research, a group
of faculty from North Carolina s
five state-supported historically
black colleges and universities,
Pembroke University and UNC
Asheville.
The annual conference pro
vides valuable experience for
young researchers.
"These kinds of experiences
help to motivate you to define your
thoughts and focus your energies,"
Dr. Harold Martin, A&T's vice
chancellor for academic affairs,
told students at the banquet. "It
encourages you to understand and
to appreciate research, and that in
turn will motivate you to pursue
graduate study."
Pursuing graduate study is
especially important for minority
students, especially in math, set-:*
ence and engineering. McBay pre
sented statistics showing ? among,
other facts ? that the state and
nation are a long way from achiev
ing goals set by the National
Science Foundation for minority
scientists and science teachers.
"It's very important to have a
corps of young people coming ,
along," McBay told students.'J
"That's why it's so important for
you to come along and earn those .
Ph.Ds. You're extremely important ,
for our collective future."
The schools participating in the
conference were the six members,
of the consortium, along with
Johnson C. Smith University,^
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