2021 UNCF Achievement Capstone Scholarship outcome

Ashlynn Lee, a Bennett College alumnae and now a Duke University medical graduate student, has been selected to receive an award scholarship from the United Negro College Fund to continue her pursuit of higher education. Lee will use her $3,000 award toward her tuition at Duke.

Lee majored in biology with a minor in chemistry at Bennett. Originally from Windsor, a small rural town in eastern North Carolina, Lee wants to use medicine to serve underserved, minority communities.