Before Anthony Charles ’09 (MPH) picks up a scalpel in a sparse operating room in Malawi, he asks everyone gathered around the table to introduce themselves and tell what role they’ll play in the surgical procedure he’s about to… read more
Anita Brown-Graham ’91 (JD) got kicked out of preschool for refusing to take naps and has been going full tilt ever since. Most recently, Brown-Graham, the Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of public law and government at the… read more
The General Alumni Association Board of Directors presented on Friday, Oct. 1 its 2022 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to Markita Landry ’06. Landry is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of… read more
As an award-winning scientist, Markita Landry ’06 wrestles with nanosensors and DNA in her lab at the University of California Berkeley. As a teenager, she wrestled with other student athletes on a mat at Green Hope High School in Cary. The… read more
Stuart Scott ’87 and Curry Kirkpatrick ’65 were among four inducted this summer into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. Scott, who died in 2015, was an ESPN sportscaster known for his catchphrases such as “Boo-Yah” and… read more
The General Alumni Association Board of Directors today presented its 2020 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to three alumni. The recipients are J. Jason Brown ’05, of Henderson; Constance Ranae Jones ’03, of Chicago; and Scott Anthony… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Young Alumni citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the awards ceremony and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) Jason Brown ’05 doesn’t believe in throwing… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Young Alumni citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the awards ceremony and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) When Constance Jones ’03 took over as CEO of… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Young Alumni citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the awards ceremony and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) Accidents happen. And when they do — say,… read more
The General Alumni Association Board of Directors today presented its 2021 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to Julius Tillery ’08, of Weldon, N.C. Established in 1989, the award recognizes alumni age 40 or younger whose achievements have… read more