News & Events from Around the College

Sam Locklear

UNCP creates seamless path to ECU Brody School of Medicine

September 2, 2022
| News

Freshman Samantha Locklear's path from UNC Pembroke to medical school has been prearranged thanks to hard work, dedication, and a unique partnership with UNCP and one of the top medical schools in the state.

UNCP undergraduates complete cancer research internship at Wake Forest

August 29, 2022
| News

Three UNC Pembroke students gained enriching cancer research experience during a summer internship training program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Students are standing in a circle and holding ropes that support a student in the center of the circle

COMPASS Video Showcases Access to STEM Majors

August 15, 2022
| Biology

The UNCP COMPASS Program provides mentoring and numerous out-of-classroom opportunities that enable undergraduate students to achieve STEM careers.  Click

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UNCP junior participates in UVA School of Law summer program

August 15, 2022
| News

Diane Pfeifer experienced life as a law student during a four-week residential program at the University of Virginia School of Law this summer.

Ethan Sanford is pictured during a video in which he describes his UNCP experience

Achieving Dreams: Ethan Sanford Earns PhD

August 14, 2022
| Biology

Ethan Sanford, one of UNCP's youngest graduates (Biology, Class of 2016), earned a PhD in biochemistry from Cornell University last May.

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UNCP's Cle Cousins selected for professional development fellowship

August 11, 2022
| News

Cle Cousins, an instructor in the Department of Mass Communication at UNC Pembroke, has been selected as a faculty fellow of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, housed at Florida International University.

G-Camp

Off to see the Wizard with UNC Pembroke’s G-Camp

August 8, 2022
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UNC Pembroke welcomed area students to campus last month for the annual G-Camp, a weeklong musical theatre camp for children in first through eighth grades.

The camp was held July 25-29.

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UNCP undergraduate researchers, faculty present at Alzheimer’s research symposium

July 14, 2022
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UNC Pembroke faculty and undergraduate researchers presented at the first Symposium for Learning about Alzheimer’s disease-related Medical research at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill (SLAM-DUNC) on June 24-25.

UNCP theatre program graduate Bill Oxendine and third-year theatre student Cheyenne Ward are playing the roles of Henry Berry Lowrie and Rhoda Strong in the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind!

UNCP Theatre Program deeply rooted in Strike at the Wind!'s success

July 12, 2022
| News

The collaboration between the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind! and UNC Pembroke's theatre program stretches 40-plus years.