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One of the country’s most prominent animal behaviorists and champion for autism rights will be the keynote speaker at Presbyterian College’s 10th annual Charles Chadwell Special Education Institute. Author and academic Dr. Temple Grandin will deliver her address, “The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds” at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, in Belk Auditorium, followed

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Presbyterian College students continue to demonstrate their public commitment to research after participating last spring in the 20th annual S.C. Upstate Research Symposium. Held on USC Upstate’s campus in Spartanburg, the event inspired the largest turnout of student presentations from all across the state, including a dozen students from PC. Professor of chemistry Dr. Latha

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Lawrence Bruns, who goes by “Kam,” had always been interested in a career in medicine. But his time serving in the United States Marine Corps took him down a different path to begin with. Bruns was born in California and moved around quite a bit as a child—Hawaii, Virginia, South Carolina. Following high school, he

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The recent business graduate’s honors research project took first place in the Business category at the symposium, using mathematical models of queueing theory in retail customer service. by Sarah Murphy Throughout her years as a student at Presbyterian College, Emily Whitaker ‘24 worked as a part-time sales associate at a local pet store in Winston-Salem,

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In 11th-century France, famed philosopher and logician Peter Abelard wrote that the first key to wisdom is “constant and frequent questioning … for by doubting we are led to question, and by questioning we arrive at the truth.” At Presbyterian College, the search for wisdom and truth continues in the 21st century with renewed vigor

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Sophie Moore’s path to becoming a physician assistant (PA) didn’t begin by opening a textbook. It started with her mother. For more than 17 years, Moore’s mother has been battling stage 4 breast cancer.  As her medical journey unfolded, Moore came to deeply appreciate her mother’s PA. She felt inspired by the PA’s phenomenal care

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Audra Butler grew up in the small town of Cheraw, on the fall line of the Pee Dee River. She always valued living in a close-knit community, and from a young age she knew that she eventually wanted to serve her community in a healthcare capacity, though it wasn’t always clear how. It was her

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Looking back on his four years as a student at Presbyterian College, Dr. Ricardo Hernandez ‘20 says that PC helped him grow to limits that he never could have imagined.  Hernandez was the first computational biology student at Presbyterian College to pursue—and ultimately achieve—his Ph.D. As an undergrad, he completed SCINBRE research that studied the

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It’s safe to say that a career in pharmacy has been on Savannah McLeod’s mind for many years. In the eighth grade, Savannah McLeod completed a job shadowing at a local pharmacy. As a senior in high school, she completed two pharmacy internships. “I was initially drawn to pharmacy because the way medicine works fascinated

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When Gabby Brinez-Pardo ‘25 applied for an internship at the South Pacific World War II Museum on the remote South Pacific Ocean island nation of Vanuatu, she assumed she would be doing things like welcoming guests or giving museum tours. Instead, Brinez-Pardo has had the opportunity to do so much more involved work that would

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