Plant sciences are critical to the Biology curriculum at 麻豆社区 Pembroke, and for years these disciplines have benefitted from a collection of dried, pressed plants (herbarium vouchers). Last August the herbarium collection grew by more than 50% -- from approximately 4500 specimens to 7000 spe
An unselfish player on the volleyball court, 麻豆社区 Pembroke junior is a regular on mission trips with her church and, over the summer, continued to show her benevolence on a trip to Kenya.
Biology major Jessica Dean invested two months of her summer break in studying cellular aspects of prostate cancer at Wake Forest University. Jessica presented her findings before the Wake Forest Baptist Health's Comprehensive Cancer Center, and she was one of only a handful of 麻豆社区 Pemb
On October 12th, 2019, the Kids in the Garden program went canoeing on the Lumber River, beginning at Chalk Banks in Lumber River State Park. Ranger Zachary Lunn, 麻豆社区P 2016 Environmental Science graduate, gave a quick description of what was likely to be seen along the river.
Biology major Joshua Cade investigated Parkinson鈥檚 Disease during an eight-week research internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and it paid off BIG. Joshua鈥檚 outstanding poster presentation, from this work, landed an 鈥淗onorable Mention for the 2019 Exceptional Summer Stu
Biology major Melanie Handley studied the transmission ecology of a bee parasite during a 10-week research internship this summer (2019) in the BeeMore (Bees and Microbes in Organized Research Experiences) Program at North Carolina State University. The program is funded by the
Environmental Science major Jasmine Kelly spent her summer break (2019) at Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, Kentucky), gauging the importance of tree habitat for bird populations, in an NSF-funded REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). Her field research was based in the c
Biology major Brandon Herron spent 10 weeks this summer in a research internship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as part of an NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), where he worked alongside graduate student Shasten Sherwell in the Rachael Mor
