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Undergraduate, Graduate Students Earn University-Wide Awards

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Seven people stand side by side indoors, five holding certificates. They are smiling and dressed in business or business casual attire. A sign above the door reads North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Four students, all animal science majors, were honored at the 2025 Graduate Awards Banquet. From left to right: Yewande Fasina, Ph.D. poultry science professor; Joel Alabi; Erika Pearsall; Tunde Ogundare; Odinaka Iwuozo; Radiah Minor, Ph.D., Animal Sciences department chair; Antoine Alston, Ph.D,, associate dean for academics.

Two students from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences won major awards this spring, from both the university and the college:

  • Breyana Robinson, an animal sciences major, received the Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence, the university’s highest honor bestowed on a student. A graduating senior, she is a two-time recipient of the Astronaut Scholarship and is the only female Aggie to be a repeat winner of that national award.
  • Jordan King, a junior agriculture and environmental systems major, received the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Outstanding Honors Award. A student senator, she is also a president of N.C. A&T’s chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS).

Graduate Students awards

Four students, all from the Department of Animal Sciences, were recognized at the 2025 Graduate Student Awards Banquet.

Those students are:

  • Tunde Ogundare, a Ph.D. student, Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant Award
  • Odinaka Iwuozo, a Ph.D. student, Rising Graduate Student Award
  • Erika Pearsall, a master’s student, was recognized for her first-place award in the Fall 2024 3-Minute Thesis competition
  • Joel Alabi, a Ph.D. student, was recognized for his first place in the Completed Research Category Graduate Research Symposium Poster Competition.

Would you like to learn more about N.C. A&T State University?

Founded in 1891 in Greensboro, North Carolina, N.C. A&T is the nation’s largest historically Black university and a premier 1890 land-grant doctoral research institution. Home to more than 14,000 students, A&T is nationally recognized as the top public HBCU in the country and the number one producer of Black graduates in engineering and agriculture. With over $2.4 billion in annual economic impact, the university combines rigorous academics, pioneering research, and a vibrant campus culture to prepare the next generation of global leaders. 

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