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"We knew the pandemic was coming."
| News Story | Point of Blue

"We knew the pandemic was coming."

After attending a filtration conference in late February, Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi returned to North Carolina determined to create filters for masks at North Carolina State University (NC State). “At the conference,” he said, “we already knew the pandemic was coming. It was all we could talk about.”
Dynamic diversity: The changing look of N.C. executive power
| News Story | Business North Carolina

Dynamic diversity: The changing look of N.C. executive power

A few people on the BNC list are prominent figures in North Carolina, including CEOs Ellison, Tunde Sotunde of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and Gene Woods of Atrium Health...Sotunde, 55, took the job last June in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reflected higher infection and death rates among minorities. The executive’s international roots and accomplishments as a physician and businessman should enable him to help “reshape health care,” Blue Cross Chair Frank Holding Jr. said at his hiring. It’s the state’s largest insurer with more than 3.7 million members.
Blue Cross NC Health Sciences Scholarship Recipients Announced
| Press Release

Blue Cross NC Health Sciences Scholarship Recipients Announced

RALEIGH, NC – Twenty-five students at independent colleges and universities across North Carolina have been announced as the 2020-2021 academic year recipients of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) Health Sciences...