Anjail R. Ahmad, associate professor in the English department and director of the Creative Writing Program, has been appointed to the North Carolina Writers' Network Board of Directors. The 3,000-member organization has been in existence since 1985, building audiences for literature, advocating for the literary arts and providing information and support services to writers throughout the state.

Patricia Cage-Bibbs, head women's basketball coach, has been honored by the Southwestern Athletic Conference Alumni Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In her 26th year as a head coach, Cage-Bibbs has compiled more than 470 wins in a career that has included stints at Grambling State (13 seasons), Hampton (seven seasons) and N.C. A&T (six seasons). Included in her win tally are 10 conference tournament championships, 13 regular-season championships and 13 20-win seasons. She also has won her conference's Coach of the Year award 10 times.

 

The Aggies are the three-time defending MEAC regular-season champions. The team also owns the MEAC record for wins with its 26-win season during the 2008-09 season.

Lemuria Carter (pictured) and Brandis Phillips, assistant professors in the Department of Accounting, worked with Porche Millington, an undergraduate student in the Department of Economics and Finance, to collect and analyze financial data from the Financial Trading Room in the School of Business and Economics. They presented their study, "The Impact of Information Technology Internal Controls on Firm Performance," at the Academy of Business Disciplines Conference in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Nov. 10-13, where they won the Best in Session Award. The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.

"Development of the Satellite Image Base Retrieval Application (SIBRA) in support of Structural Indexing of Satellite Images (SISI)," a proposal by Abdollah Homaifar, professor of chemical and electrical engineering, has been funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the amount of $50,000. Homaifar is also one of three principal investigators who recently won the National Science Foundation's New Expeditions in Computing Award, worth $10 million dollars.  

An article co-authored by Thelma King, associate professor in the Business Education Department, and Beryl McEwen(pictured), interim associate dean of the School of Business and Economics, titled "Business Information Technology Education in North Carolina High Schools: Competencies, Performance, and Implications for Business Teacher Education," was published in the NABTE Review (October 2010, 37, pp. 16-27). The NABTE Review is the official journal of the National Association for Business Teacher Education.

Harmohindar Singh, professor of architectural engineering and director of the Center for Energy, Research and Technology, was recognized by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) at the 33rd World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) held Dec.7, in Washington, D.C.  Awards were presented to individuals and organizations making contributions to the energy industry in their designated regions. Singh, who was awarded for his work in energy professional development, was among the three winners from Region II, which represents Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia and Puerto Rico.

Godfrey Uzochukwu, director of the Waste Management Institute, presented a Knowledge Systems of Science Paper, "Increasing Capacity in Environmental Areas of Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Technology and Workforce Diversity," at the International Conference on Science and Society in Madrid, Spain, Nov. 11-13. The conference examined the knowledge systems of science, social impacts of science, values and ethics of science, politics of science, and the economics of science.

Miriam Wagner, chair of the department of human development and services, and Tyra Whittaker, associate professor of human development and services, have been awarded a funded grant in the amount of $1,000,000 from the United States Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration in Capacity Building for Traditionally Underserved Populations.