PEMBROKE — Bryana Carrington, a senior at UNC Pembroke, will be among the 42 contestants vying for the Miss North Carolina crown on Saturday. 

PEMBROKE — Ruohong “Katherine” Wang, a current SGA senator who is an international student at UNCP, has been accepted into the 2019 Marian Drane Graham Scholars Program.

PEMBROKE — Robert Brown, met his wife, Monika, in a romantic literature class at Duke University more than 40 years ago. They have been inseparable ever since. 

PEMBROKE — Dr. Kevin Freeman has a profound impact on his students — both in and out of the classroom.

PEMBROKE — North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives will donate $75,000 over the next three years to support expanded opportunities for students enrolled in cybersecurity and computer science courses at UNC Pembroke.

PEMBROKE — A $10,000 gift from Cisco will provide important resources to provide cutting-edge opportunities for students in the computer science, information technology and cybersecurity programs at UNC Pembroke.

PEMBROKE — Dan Middleton moved from Ontario, Canada, to Pembroke when he was 11. 

Later, as a student at UNC Pembroke performing community service projects, he began to take notice of the health care challenges in his community.

Middleton was among 733 graduates during the two-day Spring Commencement. With his chemistry degree in hand, he plans to return to Robeson County one day and make a difference. 

PEMBROKE — Kaitlan Smith knows firsthand how pharmaceutical research and new drug development changes lives.

It changed hers. 

PEMBROKE — UNC Pembroke junior Jorden Revels is one of 55 students selected nationwide as a 2019 Udall Scholar.

PEMBROKE — UNC Pembroke senior business students Josh Brooks and Joey Bartch took home third place at the Association of Private Enterprise Education’s 9th annual Undergraduate Research Competition.