Summer Research Fellowships
The Graduate School’s Summer Research Fellowship program awarded its highest number of student opportunities in 2014. Thanks to many private donors, 38 graduate students spent the past summer focusing exclusively on their dissertation research.




Harold J Glass USAF Faculty Mentor/Graduate Fellow Distinguished Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill alumni, faculty and friends of graduate education gathered at the Carolina Inn in mid-November 2014 to honor Harold and Holly Glass, steadfast supporters of graduate education at Carolina. The Glasses (pictured below), of Philadelphia, established a three-year term professorship for a faculty member and a corresponding fellowship for the graduate student the professor selects to mentor. The professorship is named in memory of Harold E. Glass’ father. Harold J. Glass (1914-1980) served heroically in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.


Graduate Education Advancement Board, Awards and Meeting
For more than 10 years, the GEAB has supported The Graduate School’s GEAB Impact Awards, which recognize graduate students across campus whose research directly benefits North Carolina.


The GRADUATE EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT BOARD (GEAB) supports The Graduate School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in many ways. Members provide advocacy for graduate education and generate funds that support graduate students’ academic needs.
Graduate Education Advancement Board Members
- Penny Aldrich
- Suzanne Buchta
- Donald Buckley
- Ivy Carroll
- Debashish Chatterjee
- Timothy Crowder
- Lana Dial
- David Edwards
- Brent Glass
- Harold Glass
- Jean Grainger
- Michael Harpold
- Frances Hoch
- Paul Hoch
- Charles Holmes
- Linda Dykstra Hylander
- Verla Insko
- Ross Johnson
- Blair Kutrow
- Robert Laport
- Howard Lee
- David Lewis
- Susan Lord
- Andrew McMillan Jr.
- David McNelis
- Francis Meyer
- Philip Nelson
- Laurie Sanford
- Drusilla Scott
- Kenneth Smith
- Carol Smithwick
- Thomas Sox
- Priscilla Taylor
- Burnet Tucker
- Beth Whitaker
GEAB Members Emeritus
- Lyle Jones
- Peace Sullivan
GEAB Members Honorary
- Barbara Hardin
- Paul Hardin
- Mrs. Thomas S. Royster
- Charles Weiss
