If your child is interested in becoming the next forensics super sleuth, then maybe you might want to consider enrolling you child in WSSU’s CSI Camp.

Read the details below:

Winston-Salem State University CSI Summer Camp
Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (CMSTE)
July 22-26, 2013

What: The WSSU NC-MSEN Pre-College Program will host its 2nd CSI Summer Camp.  The program will include hands-on activities related to crime scene investigation as well as presentations from guest speakers.  The course will include Forensic Impression Evidence,  Fire Debris Analysis, Glass Fragment Identification and Death by Poison. Students will continue to develop their investigative skills and will put them to the test with a week ending crime scene investigation.  Students will learn CSI techniques and solve various case studies.

When: July 22-26, 2013 from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Who: This camp is for rising 7th and 8th graders.

Where: On the campus of Winston-Salem State University

-A fee of $150 will be charged for each participant and lunch will be provided. To enroll go to www.wssu.edu/ncmsen and click on the “CSI Camp” tab and scroll down and click on “Apply Now.”  There is also an application form attached to this message.

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact the CMSTE  336)750-2995/2996 or 750-2488.

Thank you.

Dr. Vincent Snipes, Director
Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (CMSTE)

Newly named Winston-Salem City Police Chief Barry Roundtree

A growing procession of Winston-Salem State University Rams are assuming the mantle of leadership for the City of Winston-Salem. The latest in that line is Barry Roundtree ‘87, who has been named Chief of the Winston-Salem City Police Department. Learn more here.

Other WSSU Rams who have led or are leading Winston-Salem City Police or Fire departments include:
Current Fire Chief  Antony Farmer ‘79
Former Police Chief Patricia Norris ‘93
Former Fire Chief John Gist ‘76

Travis Moore

It doesn’t happen often, and even more rarely at an HBCU, but WSSU’s Travis Moore has been named an All-America in baseball.  His honor joins a list of accolades for an outstanding 2013 baseball season that saw the Rams win the CIAA championship for a third straight year, advance to the NCAA playoffs for a second straight year, and host the NCAA Regionals. What a year!

Thousands pack LJVM Coliseum for WSSU 2013 Commencement

Thousands of people attended Winston-Salem State University’s 2013 Commencement ceremony May 18, in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which featured award-winning poet, essayist, novelist and educator, Nikki Giovanni, who received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree.

She was among approximately 1,100- undergraduate and graduate students receiving degrees. Using the explorer Christopher Columbus as source material, Giovanni told her attentive audience to “sail on” as Columbus did, despite his nay-sayers and critics. She said he pursued his dreams no matter what was said about him. She encouraged the Class of 2013 to do the same.

For many commencement was the end of a journey characterized by determination and tenacity.

Take the 16-year passage to a bachelor’s degree of Derrick Black that began in fall 1997.  Black, 33, father of eight children ranging in ages from 3 to 19, was a full-time student who worked a full-time third shift-manufacturing job from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. with the strong support of wife Sonya Muhammad, a 2012 graduate. He said sleep, when he could get it, was a luxury. Learn more here.

“I really wanted to be a good example for our children,” said Black.   “I wanted to demonstrate that if I and all these people making up my graduating class could do it, then maybe they will feel they can do it too.”

Or, take the journey of business owners George (age 52) and Kathleen (age 49) Banks, despite numerous accolades, honors, awards and making the Dean’s every semester, their story is a true testament of character, faith and courage. Learn more here.

The dust has settled. On a 5-2 vote the Winston-Salem City Council has approved the sale of Joel Coliseum to Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray Stadium to Winston-Salem State University. It was contentious exercise.

Determination and tenacity may be the best way to describe the miraculous journey to the bachelor’s degree Derrick Black is looking forward to receiving when he is among approximately 1,100- undergraduate and graduate students who will be participating in Winston-Salem State University’s (WSSU) 2013 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 18, at 9:45 a.m., in the [...]

Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities are being squeezzed from all ends. Now, the changes in a major federal loan program is helping to do even more damage. See how here.

No. It’s not your imagination. For those of you who keep up with the goings-on of the UNC Board of Governors (the folks who dictate policy for the entire UNC system), you will note that come July 1, this august body will have a distinctly different look and feel. Learn more here.

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WSSU’s online master’s program ranks #2 on our list of Best Online Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling programs for 2013. These rankings are based on a [...]

Nikki Giovanni, award-winning poet, essayist, novelist and educator, will serve as the speaker for Winston-Salem State’s (WSSU) 2013 commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
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