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Graduate Student Innovation and Impact: Facts at a Glance for Fall 2019
What percentage of Carolina’s students are enrolled in graduate programs in Fall 2019? The number is 28 percent! Learn more about graduate student innovation and impact.
Registration is open for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Three Minute Thesis competition
The University of Queensland developed the 3MT in 2008 and more than 600 universities in 65 countries now hold their own competitions.
New Council of Graduate Schools initiative focuses on graduate student mental health and wellness
UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student Susanna L. Harris has been selected to serve on the advisory committee of experts and graduate education leaders.
Diversifying research in the sciences
The Graduate School encourages students pursuing their graduate education to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Student Focus: Atticus Jaramillo
Atticus Jaramillo, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral fellow, works to help undergraduate students prepare for graduate school. He says this allows him to “pay forward the advantages I have been fortunate enough to receive.”
Stella Zhizhi Li, doctoral student in musicology, is 2019-20 Harold J. Glass USAF Graduate Fellow
Annegret Fauser, the Harold J. Glass USAF Faculty Mentor/Graduate Fellow Distinguished Term Professor, selected Li for the fellowship.
Suzanne Barbour is selected as the next dean of The Graduate School
Suzanne Barbour, who most recently served as dean of the University of Georgia Graduate School, is the next dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School.
Student Focus: Michele Kelley
Michele Kelley, who has both a Royster Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is pursuing innovative research and also seeking ways to encourage others to pursue science.
Graduate Student Work
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New Council of Graduate Schools initiative focuses on graduate student mental health and wellness
UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student Susanna L. Harris has been selected to serve on the advisory committee of experts and graduate education leaders.
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Student Focus: Atticus Jaramillo
Atticus Jaramillo, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral fellow, works to help undergraduate students prepare for graduate school. He says this allows him to “pay forward the advantages I have been fortunate enough to receive.”
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Stella Zhizhi Li, doctoral student in musicology, is 2019-20 Harold J. Glass USAF Graduate Fellow
Annegret Fauser, the Harold J. Glass USAF Faculty Mentor/Graduate Fellow Distinguished Term Professor, selected Li for the fellowship.
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Student Focus: Michele Kelley
Michele Kelley, who has both a Royster Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is pursuing innovative research and also seeking ways to encourage others to pursue science.
N.C. Impact
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Graduate Student Innovation and Impact: Facts at a Glance for Fall 2019
What percentage of Carolina’s students are enrolled in graduate programs in Fall 2019? The number is 28 percent! Learn more about graduate student innovation and impact.
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Dozens of graduate students participate in Graduate Education Day
Five 2019 recipients of The Graduate School’s Impact Award represented UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Learning to prevent sports-related brain injury
A Carolina graduate student helps athletic trainers recognize invisible injuries and protect athletes from harm.
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Coastal resilience
Amanda Martin received a 2018 Impact Award for her analysis of community and household recovery after Hurricane Floyd. We asked for her initial thoughts on recovery after Florence.
Campus News and Updates
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Registration is open for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Three Minute Thesis competition
The University of Queensland developed the 3MT in 2008 and more than 600 universities in 65 countries now hold their own competitions.
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Diversifying research in the sciences
The Graduate School encourages students pursuing their graduate education to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Suzanne Barbour is selected as the next dean of The Graduate School
Suzanne Barbour, who most recently served as dean of the University of Georgia Graduate School, is the next dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School.
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Campus celebrates undergraduates’ research accomplishments
More than 120 undergraduate students from UNC-Chapel Hill and beyond participated in the fifth annual Summer Undergraduate Pipeline Research Symposium.
Alumni and Friends
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Ramesh Raskar, to give 2019 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony keynote address
Ramesh Raskar, who co-invented a camera to “see around corners,” and a method for “reading” through closed books, will give the keynote address at the 2019 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
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Alumni Focus: Anne York
Doctoral alumna in business administration, academic entrepreneur, mentor shares advice for graduate students, support for diversity.
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Charles Weiss, longtime faculty member, benefactor, cultural enthusiast, dies at 100
Charles Weiss, PhD, professor emeritus of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, passed away on Dec. 17.
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Alumni Focus: Robert M. Brosh Jr.
Steve Matson, dean of The Graduate School and biology professor, was instrumental in his success as a doctoral student. In addition, Nobel Laureates Aziz Sancar, of UNC-Chapel Hill, and Paul Modrich, of Duke University, served on his Ph.D. thesis committee.