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Doctoral Candidate Darren Hearn (’16 MPH; ’21 Ph.D.) Serves Military Personnel at Fort Bragg and Beyond
Graduating Tar Heel Darren Hearn (’16 MPH; ’21 Ph.D.) has focused his research on musculoskeletal injury and performance and how those areas can be applied to people completing military basic training in order to identify those at greatest risk for sustaining injury.
Virtual Celebration for Carolina’s Doctoral Graduates
The Graduate School honored doctoral degree recipients at UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday, May 15. The celebration included a video and interactive gallery of graduates from August 2019 through May 2021.
Congratulations, 2021 graduates: A message from Dean Suzanne Barbour
Dear master’s and PhD graduates: Congratulations on reaching this important milestone!
Preparing Graduate Students for the Future of Work
CareerWell, a new program from The Graduate School, helps graduate and professional students sharpen career skills so they are better-prepared for an evolving job market outside academia.
Graduate Students Gain Real-World Experience Through Team-Based Multidisciplinary Internships
Graduate students who participated in CareerWell gained real-world, multidisciplinary experience through team-based work for corporate partners PRA Health Sciences and Enzerna Biosciences, Inc.
Master of Social Work Student Daniela Cerón (’21 MSW) Dedicated to North Carolina’s Rural Communities
Master of Social Work second-year student Daniela Cerón is set to graduate from the UNC School of Social Work in May 2021.
Naana Ewool, School of Social Work Master’s Degree Student, named Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship Program Senior Fellow for 2021-2022
The Graduate School has named the School of Social Work’s Naana Ewool as its 2021-2022 Weiss Urban Livability Program senior fellow.
Juanita Limas Named 2021 Recipient of Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service
Juanita Limas is the 2021 recipient of the Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service. Limas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Pharmacology.
Graduate Student Work
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Diversity and Student Success ‘Beyond These Walls’ Highlights Identity, Stress, and Resiliency Among Black Families
Diversity and Student Success held its annual Beyond These Walls event online in April 2021, which featured three doctoral students from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience’s StAR lab.
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Graduate and Post-Doctoral Students Work in Genome Sciences Lab as part of Carolina COVID-19 Student Service Corps Efforts
Graduate students from across the University respond to a call from The Graduate School to get involved in the campus-wide response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Celebrating Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week
Carolina’s graduate and professional students represent a range of fields and areas of study. As The Graduate School celebrates Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, learn more about the variety of research, creative, and mission-driven endeavors in which our students engage.
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The Graduate School honors ‘the highest level of graduate student scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill’
The 2021 recipients of the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award are Katherine Calvin, Alex Gertner, Nicholas Levis and Xun Xiao
N.C. Impact
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COVID-response collaborative blends data science, community wisdom
Faculty and graduate students create the I4 Boundary Spanners program to address local COVID-19 concerns by combining data analysis with firsthand community perspectives
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Impact Award, Horizon Award recipients selected for 2021, for research benefiting North Carolina
Graduate students and recent graduate alumni apply for The Graduate School’s annual awards and are nominated by their academic departments.
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Graduate student ‘Boundary Spanners’ help N.C. communities address COVID-19 challenges
The Graduate School project, funded through the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, provides a team approach combining data science, public policy and service.
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2020 Impact and Horizon Award Winners
Each year, The Graduate School honors graduate students in programs throughout our University for their powerful discoveries that contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina. We’re pleased to present 11 Impact Awards and six Horizon … Continued
Campus News and Updates
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Doctoral Candidate Darren Hearn (’16 MPH; ’21 Ph.D.) Serves Military Personnel at Fort Bragg and Beyond
Graduating Tar Heel Darren Hearn (’16 MPH; ’21 Ph.D.) has focused his research on musculoskeletal injury and performance and how those areas can be applied to people completing military basic training in order to identify those at greatest risk for sustaining injury.
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Virtual Celebration for Carolina’s Doctoral Graduates
The Graduate School honored doctoral degree recipients at UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday, May 15. The celebration included a video and interactive gallery of graduates from August 2019 through May 2021.
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Master of Social Work Student Daniela Cerón (’21 MSW) Dedicated to North Carolina’s Rural Communities
Master of Social Work second-year student Daniela Cerón is set to graduate from the UNC School of Social Work in May 2021.
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Naana Ewool, School of Social Work Master’s Degree Student, named Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship Program Senior Fellow for 2021-2022
The Graduate School has named the School of Social Work’s Naana Ewool as its 2021-2022 Weiss Urban Livability Program senior fellow.
Alumni and Friends
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Preparing Graduate Students for the Future of Work
CareerWell, a new program from The Graduate School, helps graduate and professional students sharpen career skills so they are better-prepared for an evolving job market outside academia.
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Louis Howard Porter, doctoral alumnus in history, is selected for dissertation prize
Porter, who teaches classes on Russian history at UNC-Chapel Hill, is currently writing a book based on his dissertation.
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Meet Elijah Heyward III
Doctoral alumnus is determined to make a difference in his home community as the first chief operating officer for the International African American Museum
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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.