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Sidney McLaurin, a junior computer science major from DeSoto, TX, was one of 5 NC HBCU students selected as a 2019 White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities 2019 Competitiveness Scholar – the Initiative’s highest student recognition. 

Shaw University alumni, family and friends gathered at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel to celebrate 20 of the best and brightest during the annual alumni awards program, The Legends Ball.

Preschool students from the University’s 5-star child development center celebrated their new status as rising kindergartners in a lively ceremony. The graduation was the finale to a week of activities marking the 10th anniversary of the Center.

Shaw University announced that Daniel L. “DT” Thompson, the Deputy for the Orient for the E. J. Morine Council of Deliberation of the Scottish Rite Masons of North Carolina, presented the University with the first installment of $5,000 given in creation of the Robert M. L. Walker Endowment Fund.