{"id":154462,"date":"2025-09-19T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154462\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:06:06","slug":"university-of-new-brunswick-pascal-siakam-honoured-at-unb-nba-star-champions-education-youth-empowerment-and-scholarships-for-computer-science-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154462\/","title":{"rendered":"University of New Brunswick &#8211; Pascal Siakam honoured at UNB: NBA star champions education, youth empowerment and scholarships for computer science students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day!<\/p>\n<p>NBA star and philanthropist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pascal_Siakam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pascal Siakam<\/a> swept through the area on Sept. 3 on his way to collect an honorary doctor of letters at the University of New Brunswick&#8217;s (UNB) Fredericton campus.<\/p>\n<p>UNB recognized Siakam&#8217;s outstanding achievements on and off the court. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ps43foundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PS43 Foundation<\/a>, in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/mckenna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McKenna Institute<\/a>, has established <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unb.ca\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/erick-mbianda.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scholarships at UNB<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/academics\/calendar\/undergraduate\/current\/awards\/search\/siakam-pascal-scholarship1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">up to $8,000 for one year<\/a> for students from his native Cameroon pursuing programs related to computer science. Several students are already benefiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unb.ca\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/pascal-siakam-honoured.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a day! NBA star and philanthropist Pascal Siakam swept through the area on Sept. 3 on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-154462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}