FLINT, Mich. — N.C. Central University Chancellor Charlie Nelms has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
Nelms, who also served on the foundation’s Board of Trustees in 2008, was chancellor at the University of Michigan-Flint from 1994 through 1998.
The Mott Foundation, established in 1926 in Flint by an automotive pioneer, is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.
Duke director picked for nursing group
DURHAM — William Scott, School of Nursing clinics director at Duke University, has been elected vice chairman of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Scott has more than 20 years of experience working in primary care settings and nurse practitioner managed clinics. His past clinical practice has focused on rural health care access.
Officially recognized by the U.S. secretary of education, the Washington, D.C.-based CCNE is an autonomous accrediting agency contributing to the improvement of the public’s health. CCNE ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate, graduate and residency programs in nursing.
Scholarship available for allied health field
OXFORD — The Granville Health System Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2010 Sam Perry Memorial Scholarship Program.
The foundation established the scholarship fund in honor of Sam Perry, a physician’s assistant whose specialized medical care had earned him respect from both patients and peers throughout his career.
The scholarship will be awarded by the foundation to a Granville County resident who has been accepted into a two-year or four-year Allied Health Program at an accredited school and who intends to pursue a career in the allied health care field.
Programs eligible for this scholarship include clinical laboratory sciences, physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiological science, pharmacy, RN, BSN and LPN, dentistry and related careers, physician assistant and nurse practitioner.
The deadline for submitting applications is March 31. A monetary award of $500 will be paid toward the recipient’s tuition in August, upon verification of acceptance into an approved program. This is a one-time scholarship, but individuals may reapply for as many years as they are in school.
Mount Olive College local graduates
MOUNT OLIVE — Several Durham residents recently graduated from Mount Olive College during the school’s fall commencement.
The graduates include: Tamara Balderas, Gina Berrios, Shannon Bond, Beth Bryk, Christie Daniel, Karen Johnson, Kenya Jones, Lisa Kirchhof, Latondra Lilly, Lisa Magno, Susan Majors, Tammy Matthews, Lisa Meadows, William Oakley III, Annemarie Ryan, Cheryl Taylor, Jeremaine Terry and Julie Williams.
Black Seminarians Union celebrated
DURHAM — Duke University Divinity School’s Office of Black Church Studies will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Seminarians Union and its mission.
The Feb. 8-10 celebration will include presentations and preaching by Cynthia Hale, founding pastor of the 5,100-member Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Ga., and Gregory Palmer, resident bishop of the Illinois Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. Palmer also is president of the worldwide Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church.
The purpose of the BSU is to ensure the development of a theological perspective commensurate with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and relevant to the needs of black seminarians and the black church. Its goal is to improve the quality of life theologically, academically, spiritually, politically and socially for the entire Divinity School community.
Honor society inducts two local members
WILSON — Barton College’s North Carolina Gamma Chapter of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society recently conducted its 2009 fall induction ceremony welcoming 15 new members including Brittany Leeann Keith of Creedmoor and Christina Ann Roberds of Durham.
Students with a grade-point average of 3.5 or better in the top 10 percent of the junior and senior classes were eligible for induction. The minimum grade-point average for this induction class was 3.71.
Alpha Chi is a coeducational society whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honor those who achieve such distinction. Its name derives from the initial letters of the Greek words meaning truth and character.
Chapel Hill native wins scholarship
WASHINGTON — Georgetown University graduate Carolyn Barnett of Chapel Hill has been selected as a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship for 2010 to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
The scholarship recognizes young Americans of high ability who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the United States with a minimum GPA of 3.7. The program links future American leaders to the United Kingdom by funding two years of graduate study at a university in the U.K.
Barnett, currently living in Cairo, is on a 12-month Fulbright scholarship studying advanced Modern Standard and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad.
As a Marshall scholar, Barnett plans to undertake two years of study at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, during which she will pursue a master of art degree in Islamic studies and a master of science in Middle East politics.
Rose-Hulman dean’s list honors student
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Brian Hulette of Hillsborough has been named to the dean’s list for the fall quarter at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
To be named to the dean’s list, students must earn at least a 3.3 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
Rose-Hulman is a private engineering, mathematics and science college with an undergraduate enrollment of 1,900 students.
Hulette, a junior, is the son of William and Christine Hulette of Hillsborough.
Duke researchers win engineering award
WASHINGTON — Two Duke University researchers are among more than 100 outstanding early career scientists named as winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Receiving the award were Adriene Stiff-Roberts and Chris Dwyer, who are both assistant professors of electrical engineering at Duke.
Winning scientists and engineers receive up to a five-year research grant to further their study in support of critical government missions.
College to offer three-year program
MOUNT OLIVE — Mount Olive College is the first state college to offer a three-year degree program for traditional students.
The three-year degree program at Mount Olive College will save students in excess of $22,000 or up to one-fourth the cost of college expenses including tuition, fees, room and board.
The minimum grade-point average for acceptance in the program will be 3.5. Interested students will be required to enter the program at the onset of their freshmen year and to declare a major at that time.
The college will pave the way for three-year degree completion by waiving the excess credit hour fee, by arranging for preferential scheduling for students in the program, and by offering special advisement to ensure that students get the courses they need in the sequence they need them.
Mount Olive College is now accepting applications from students interested in entering the three-year degree program which will begin in the fall 2010 semester. For information or to apply, call the Mount Olive College admissions office at 800-653-0854.
— Compiled by Neil Offen, Contact him at noffen@heraldsun.com or 419-6646.
