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Priorities:North Carolina Central University Student Priorities

2021-12-12T18:05:49Z

Mayahamer19:

[[SOARing]] Into STEM

University Innovation Fellowship (UIF) Program

Maya Hamer

'''Maya Hamer - MIS/MBA Candidate'''

*2021 Grace Hopper Scholar
*2021 University Innovations Scholar (Stanford University)
*PBS feature as a SLIS student
*Graduate Assistant for Dr. Siobahn Grady
**Researcher for “The LAIER”
**The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER) pronounced LAIR will encompass work on a diverse set of topics within artificial intelligence related to:
***1. Machine Learning
***2. Human-Computer Interaction
***3. Diversity & Inclusion

'''Christopher Lawson''' received his Bachelor of Arts in Visual Media & Graphic Design from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. While attending school, he served as a Undergraduate Computer Science Research Assistant for the Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity, Research, Education and Outreach. Christopher is now enrolled into the Master of Information Science (MIS) Program at North Carolina Central University, where he is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER) directed by Dr. Siobahn Day-Grady. Christopher has been accepted into the University Innovation Fellowship Program and the AI Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Data Science Program. In addition, Christopher is being considered to become the NCCU Chapter President for the Association for Information Science & Technology for the upcoming 2022/2023 school year.

'''Dr. Siobahn Day Grady''' is an assistant professor of information systems at North Carolina Central University in the School of Library and Information Sciences and Director of The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER). She is the first woman to obtain a Computer Science Ph.D. from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State

University and a current ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science If/Then Initiative. Her research areas include authorship attribution, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. She also participates in numerous outreach activities to broaden participation in computing, especially for women and girls of color in STEM.

'''What is the University Innovation Fellowship (UIF) Program?'''

The UIF program empowers students and faculty to become leaders of change in higher education. Fellows are a leading global movement that ensures all students gain the attitudes, skills and knowledge required to navigate real word issues. The program provides -

* Online Learning
* In-Person Meetups
* Year-Round mentor support
* Tools and Resources
* Events and Convenings

What Makes Us University Innovation Fellows

Fellows represent the student voice in the global conversation about the future of education. They become deeply familiar with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at their schools, working closely with faculty, administrators and community stakeholders. They develop system thinking skills and learn a variety of design approaches that support their work as change agents.

Based on their deep understanding of the landscape of learning opportunities available at their schools, Fellows design and implement activities to enhance that landscape.

'''What is SOARing Into'''

'''STEM?'''

SOARing into STEM is an event that is geared towards being innovative and having a design-centered focus on what can be changed around the campus of North Carolina Central University (NCCU). With this event, we can become change makers and make impactful changes around campus through creating events with intent to affect change. We have three ideas that can generate change and something that could be life-long. These events would include -

* A Research Symposium/Competition
* Food Drive
* Career Fair

'''Who's Speaking'''

* Inspirational speakers doing cutting edge research - STEM/Entrepreneurship & Innovation
** Internet of Things (IoT)
** Artificial Intelligence (AI)
** Academia & Industry
** We want speakers who are eager to get their research out so they will come for free if possible - Areas of focus (STEM/Entrepreneurship & Innovation
* Focus on Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) & Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
** Increase comradery and collaboration amongst other HBCUs and MSIs

'''Research Competition'''

* Contest for NCCU student speakers
** Present their ideas on areas focused in (STEM or Entrepreneurship & Innovation)
** Possible tuition remission prize or separate incentive
** Giveaways - School sponsored memorabilia
* This could be in conjunction with the
** Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium (GURS)

'''Food Drive'''

* We can collaborate with the school pantry
** NCCU Campus Pantry
** Community Involvement & Awareness

* Other Resources
** End Hunger Durham
** Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
** Welcome Baby - Support Durham Families for over 20 years
** Diaper Bank of North Carolina

* Incentive
** Food Truck Festival

'''Career Fair'''

* Partner with career fairs on campus already
** Career and Professional Development Center
* Other Resources
** Handshake, VMock, and Big Interview
** Other outside resources
*** Career Treasure
*** NC Career Works Center
*** NCCU Partnerships & Organizations

'''Funding'''

* FDA recognizes the value of supporting high quality, small conferences and scientific meetings relevant to its public health mission
** Examples include a symposium, seminar, workshop or any formal meeting, whether conducted face-to-face or virtually.

The purpose is to exchange information and explore a defined subject, issue, or area of concern impacting public health within the scope of the FDA's mission.

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Priorities:North Carolina Central University Student Priorities

2021-12-12T17:59:58Z

Mayahamer19:

SOARing Into STEM

University Innovation Fellowship (UIF) Program

Maya Hamer

'''Maya Hamer - MIS/MBA Candidate'''

* 2021 Grace Hopper Scholar
* 2021 University Innovations Scholar (Stanford University)
* PBS feature as a SLIS student
* Graduate Assistant for Dr. Siobahn Grady
** Researcher for “The LAIER”
** The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER) pronounced LAIR will encompass work on a diverse set of topics within artificial intelligence related to:
*** 1. Machine Learning
*** 2. Human-Computer Interaction
*** 3. Diversity & Inclusion

'''Christopher Lawson''' received his Bachelor of Arts in Visual Media & Graphic Design from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. While attending school, he served as a Undergraduate Computer Science Research Assistant for the Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity, Research, Education and Outreach. Christopher is now enrolled into the Master of Information Science (MIS) Program at North Carolina Central University, where he is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER) directed by Dr. Siobahn Day-Grady. Christopher has been accepted into the University Innovation Fellowship Program and the AI Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Data Science Program. In addition, Christopher is being considered to become the NCCU Chapter President for the Association for Information Science & Technology for the upcoming 2022/2023 school year.

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User:Mayahamer19

2021-12-10T07:52:23Z

Mayahamer19:

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Maya Hamer Graduate Research Assistant
Cary, North

(919)-802-3740

Email: ''Mayahamer19@gmail.com''
Email: ''Mhamer2@eagles.nccu.edu''
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Education

Master in Information Science and Business Administration Candidate at North Carolina Central University

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting with Minor in Anthropology at University of North Carolina Greensboro

Languages
Python, R, SQL

2021 Grace Hopper Scholar

2021 University Innovations Scholar (Stanford University)

PBS feature as a SLIS student

Graduate Assistant for Dr. Siobahn Grady

Researcher for “The LAIER”

''The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research'' (LAIER) pronounced LAIR will encompass work on a diverse set of topics within artificial intelligence related to:
''''''1. Machine Learning
2. Human-Computer Interaction
3. Diversity & Inclusion''''''

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2021-12-10T07:43:47Z

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School:North Carolina Central University

2021-12-10T07:36:50Z

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North Carolina Central University (NCCU or NC Central), is a state-supported liberal arts institution, and is a public, historically black university located in Durham, North Carolina. NCCU was founded by Dr. James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909, it was supported by private funds from both Northern and Southern philanthropists. For more than a century, NC Central has prepared students to transform communities. We made the commitment as the nation's first public liberal arts institution for African American students. We sustain it as a future-focused modern university.

North Carolina Central University was founded by Dr. James E. Shepard as the '''National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race''' in the Hayti District. Chautauqua was an educational movement that originated in the Northeast. The school was chartered in 1909 as a private institution and opened on July 5, 1910. Woodrow Wilson, the future U.S. president, contributed some private support for the school's founding.

The school was sold and reorganized in 1915, becoming the National Training School; it was supported by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, a philanthropist of New York who was particularly concerned about education. (She founded the Russell Sage Foundation and made generous bequests to several schools.) The National Training School supported Black teacher development in the Jim Crow era, a time when Black education was underfunded by southern states at both the lower and upper levels.

Statue of NCCU founder James E. Shepard. James E. Shepard was also a pharmacist, civil servant and educator. He served as the first president of NCCU for nearly 40 years.

Becoming a state-funded institution in 1923, this school was renamed as '''Durham State Normal School for Negroes'''; normal schools trained teachers for elementary grades. In 1925, reflecting the expansion of its programs to a four-year curriculum with a variety of majors, the General Assembly converted the institution into the '''North Carolina College for Negroes,''' dedicating it to the offering of liberal arts education and the preparation of teachers and principals of secondary schools. It was the nation's first state-supported liberal arts college for black students. To avoid the state Jim Crow system of segregated passenger cars on trains, Shepard insisted on traveling to Raleigh by car to lobby the legislature. The college's first four-year class graduated in 1929.

The college was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools as an "A" class institution in 1937 and was admitted to membership in that association in 1957. Graduate courses in the School of Arts and Sciences were added in 1939, in the School of Law in 1940, and in the School of Library Science in 1941. In 1947, the General Assembly changed the name of the institution to '''North Carolina College at Durham'''.

== Campus[edit] ==
The campus is located about a mile south of downtown Durham, North Carolina and about three miles east of Duke University. Eleven buildings built before 1940 are included in a national historic district. All of the buildings, except for the three residences, are Georgian Revival-style buildings; they have contemporary fireproof construction with steel trusses and brick exterior walls. They include the James E. Shepard Administration Building, Alexander Dunn Hall, Annie Day Shepard Hall, and five institutional buildings built in the late 1930s under the auspices of the Public Works Administration. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

== Organization[edit] ==
NCCU is a part of the University of North Carolina (UNC) System. The campus is governed by a thirteen-member Board of Trustees: eight elected, four appointed, and the president of the Student Government Association also serves as an ex-officio member. The Board elects its officers annually and meets five times per year.

As of Fall 2020, NCCU had a total of 8,078 students, (full and part-time) including 6,067 undergraduate and 1,608 graduate students. Nearly 70% are women and 30% are men. 71.6% percent are Black, 9.7% are white, 6.6% are Hispanic and 1.3 Asian. As of 2020, NCCU had a student faculty ratio of 16:1.

=== Schools and colleges[edit] ===

* School of Business (AACSB)
* School of Education
* School of Law
* School of Library & Information Sciences
* College of Health & Sciences
* College of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities
* School of Graduate Studies

=== Research institutes[edit] ===

* The Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute (BBRI)
* Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE)

=== Additional programs[edit] ===

* University Honors Program (UHP)
* NCCU Online
* Evening & Weekend Degree Programs

== Student activities[edit] ==

=== Student organizations[edit] ===
North Carolina Central University has over 130 registered student organizations and 12 honor societies.

==== Student media[edit] ====
The students of North Carolina Central University publish the ''Campus Echo'', a bi-weekly newspaper that has been in publication since the school's founding in 1910. The ''Campus Echo'' contains articles covering local events, arts and entertainment, and sports among other topics.[[File:North Carolina Central Wordmark.png|thumb]]


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School:North Carolina Central University

2021-12-10T07:35:26Z

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2021-12-10T06:55:51Z

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Maya Hamer Graduate Research Assistant
Cary, North

(919)-802-3740
Education

Master in Information Science and Business Administration Candidate at North Carolina Central University

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting with Minor in Anthropology at University of North Carolina Greensboro

Languages
Python, R, SQL

2021 Grace Hopper Scholar

2021 University Innovations Scholar (Stanford University)

PBS feature as a SLIS student

Graduate Assistant for Dr. Siobahn Grady

Researcher for “The LAIER”

''The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research'' (LAIER) pronounced LAIR will encompass work on a diverse set of topics within artificial intelligence related to:
''''''1. Machine Learning
2. Human-Computer Interaction
3. Diversity & Inclusion''''''