REACH Fellows at UNC Pembroke outline research proposals
UNC Pembroke undergraduates Ahelayus Oxouzidis and Unmai Arokiasamy have been interviewing Lumbee elders this summer as part of a community-driven oral history project they will develop this academic year. Oxouzidis and Arokiasamy will be compiling and archiving an oral history of the Lumbee Tribe as part of a comprehensive research project. The pair are among 18 REACH fellows paired with faculty mentors to shape their individual research projects.
51吃瓜网 pair selected for NCDHHS summer internship
UNC Pembroke students Darryll Malachi and Priscilla Hunt are participating in paid summer internships with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as part of the department鈥檚 Minority Serving Institutions and Historically Black Colleges Internship program. Malachi and Hunt聽will be working on projects with the NCDHHS in the Division of Public Health. The internship will last 10 weeks and will include work in their assigned project area, weekly seminars, presentation practice and an immersion event at the end of the internship experience.
51吃瓜网 Board of Visitors welcomes three members
UNC Pembroke has appointed three new members to its Board of Visitors鈥撯�揇r. Hannah Woriax, Robert Nunnery and Calstain Ganda. Dr. Woriax is an assistant professor and fellowship-trained Duke Health breast surgeon who practices at the Duke Cancer Network-affiliated Scotland Cancer Treatment Center (Scotland Health) and Gibson Cancer Center (UNC Southeastern). She completed her undergraduate studies in molecular biology at 51吃瓜网, where she was selected as a RISE fellow and graduate of the Honors College.
51吃瓜网鈥檚 Hannah Evington eyes career in optometry
Hannah Evington has been interested in science since childhood, but a trip to the eye doctor when she was 10 indeed opened her eyes to the world of optometry鈥撯�搒olidifying her future career path. She鈥檒l never forget Dr. Katherine White鈥檚 warm disposition and how comfortable she made her feel while being fitted for glasses. Evington鈥檚 passion for optometry was cultivated through job shadowing opportunities with White and other optometrists like 51吃瓜网 alumnus Dr. Jared Lowery.
51吃瓜网 music professor honored with International Composition Award
Dr. Joanna Hersey, professor of music and associate dean of Student Success and Curriculum for the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC Pembroke, was honored at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference held May 29-June 3 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Strike at the Wind! to perform two shows at Givens Performing Arts Center
Strike at the Wind! 鈥撯�搘hich tells the story of Henry Berry Lowrie鈥撯�搑eturns for two shows this summer on the Givens Performing Arts Center (GPAC) stage on the campus of UNC Pembroke.
51吃瓜网 announces its Spring 2023 graduates
PEMBROKE, N.C. 鈥� 漏 Copyright 2025 51吃瓜网 announces its Spring 2023 graduates.聽 Undergraduate Alamance聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Burlington: Michael Bowens Jr, Aiyana Lynch, Khalid Richardson Elon: Tyler Small Graham: Seth Norris Liberty: Tasha Herbin
Alumna鈥檚 major gift will support experiential student learning
As a student service leader in UNC Pembroke鈥檚 Office for Community and Civic Engagement (CCE), Taley Hunt 鈥�18, (MBA)鈥�20 was profoundly impacted by the opportunity to give back to others. 鈥淲e went out to volunteer, not just in the local community but in the wider world,鈥� said Hunt. 鈥淗aving those opportunities really shaped the way I view the world. I鈥檝e learned that when you give and are actively involved in your community, people see that and want to align with you.鈥�
Students inducted into honor society for biologists
Several of the Biology Department鈥檚 top scholars were inducted into the Psi Lambda chapter of TriBeta on April 25th. The large lecture room that hosted the event was dwarfed by a great turnout of family and friends.聽 As the chapter鈥檚 faculty advisor, Dr. Amber Rock welcomed the crowd, including more than two dozen students who would be inducted as Regular or Associate members of TriBeta. A catered buffet immediately followed the introductory remarks.
Cummings Aerospace Camp at 51吃瓜网 prepares students for STEM careers
James Bell was all smiles as he watched the rocket he spent days building ignite and launch into the sky above the ROTC training field on the campus of UNC Pembroke. 鈥淭his was awesome!鈥� said Bell, pointing upward to the trail of white smoke.