Justin Villanueva, a recent UNC Pembroke graduate, has been accepted into the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Villanueva earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in Fall 2020. He credits UNCP’s small, rigorous classes and outstanding professors for “igniting the spark of flame” within him to pursue a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.

An honors student at UNCP, Villanueva was a member of the N.C. Health Careers Access Program Club and Biology Club. He was awarded the 2019 Ben Chavis Friends of the Library Scholarship Award and served as a tutor for the Department of Chemistry and Physics. He graduated with magna cum laude honors.

After pharmacy school, he plans to either work as a pharmacist in a rural area, conduct field research in pharmacy or work as an informatics pharmacist in a hospital setting.

Villanueva will begin pharmacy school in August.