RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Trailblazers in medicine and politics are among those selected to receive North Carolina’s highest civilian honor in a ceremony next month.
The recipients of the North Carolina Award are: Anthony Abbott of Davidson for literature; Dr. Anthony Atala of Winston-Salem for Science; former Sen. Jim Broyhill of Winston-Salem and Howard Lee of Chapel Hill for public service; and Dr. A. Everette James Jr. of Chapel Hill and Patricia McBride of Charlotte for fine arts.
The awards will be presented Nov. 12 in Durham.
Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine and has made human tissue in the lab. Lee is the former mayor of Chapel Hill, where he was lauded as the first black to lead a predominantly white Southern town since Reconstruction.
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