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Class of 2025: NC State Veterinary Medicine Welcomes First Pembroke Scholar

August 11, 2021
| Biology

NC State University

Veterinary Medicine News

Dr. Tonya Locklear

Biology Department’s Tonya Locklear earns MFA Degree, achieves title of “Dr.”

August 2, 2021
| Biology

She’s talented, smart, well organized, hardworking, and a gifted writer.  Having such qualities were crucial while Tonya Locklear pursued a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing from Oklahoma City University, and at the same time, she navigated the daily administrative task

Campus Gardens

Duke Energy Foundation, UNCP partnership connects elementary students with the earth

July 19, 2021
| News

Local elementary school students are becoming budding gardeners thanks to an ongoing collaboration between UNC Pembroke, Duke Energy Foundation and the Public Schools of Robeson County.

Dr. Hannah Woriax performing a procedure in the operating room at The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Paging Dr. Woriax

June 23, 2021
| Biology

Article written by Mark Locklear

First published in the spring 2021 edition of
UNCP Today

Dr. Ben Bahr

Dr. Ben Bahr: On the Horizon

June 23, 2021
| Biology

Article written by Mark Locklear

First published in the spring 2021 edition of
UNCP Today

Christian Ryckeley

UNCP graduate Christian Ryckeley begins medical residency at Aventura Hospital

June 22, 2021
| News

Fresh out of medical school, Christian Ryckeley will soon begin a three-year emergency medicine residency at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Florida.

Ashley Arcara

UNCP alumnae complete Doctor of Pharmacy program at Wingate University

June 22, 2021
| News

Five UNC Pembroke alumnae recently graduated from Wingate University’s Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Alex Miles Locklear, Megan Stevens Kwasnik, Sharon Ayioka, Brooke Chavis and Ashley Arcara were among the Spring 2021 graduating class.

Dr. Karen Farizatto (left) and Jared Tuton review results of protein quantification

Jared Tuton awarded second NC Space Grant

June 16, 2021
| Biology

Biology major Jared Tuton is the recipient of a second North Carolina Space Grant.  Tuton joins a distinguished group of undergraduate and graduate students from across the state whose STEM research for 2021-2022 is funded by space grants.  Tuton's research, which is mentored by Dr

Migrant Education Community Teaching Garden (photo from The Robesonian)

Children learn about plants and more at PSRC’s Migrant Education Community Teaching Garden

June 16, 2021
| Biology

Thanks in part to funding from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, UNC Pembroke faculty and students have partnered with the Migrant Education Program to create a teaching garden in Robeson County for migrant students. 

Dr. Ben Bahr (left) and Ms. Nicole Stumbling Bear

Biology Alumna Awarded Beginning Teacher of the Year

June 6, 2021
| Biology

Biology alumna Nicole Stumbling Bear (class of 2019), was just awarded “Beginning Teacher of the Year” at Gray's Creek Middle School in Hope Mills, North Carolina, where she teaches 7th-grade science. This outstanding achievement comes as no real surprise, given Stumbling Bear’s e