Suzanne Barbour, who became dean of The Graduate School in 2019, plans to step down at the end of August.

Erin Dickey is the 2022 recipient of the Poulton Family Summer Research Fellowship, which allows her to travel and collect research for her dissertation on art, technology, and feminism in the 1980s. 

Michelle Dromgold-Sermen is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dromgold-Sermen has been awarded the Peggy Totten Harpold Summer Research Fellowship.

Courtney Chaaban ‘11 is a Ph.D. candidate within the Human Movement Science Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — a joint program offered by the Department of Allied Health Sciences, UNC School of Medicine, and the Department of Exercise and Sport Science within the College of Arts & Sciences. She is the recipient of the Tom and Karen Sox Summer Research Fellowship.

Congratulations to The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success team, which received a campus partner award from Student Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. 

Ph.D. student Samuel Akau engenders creative, participatory public policies.

John West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As he works to complete his dissertation — research that focuses on emotional granularity in individuals and how it shapes our memory — he has been awarded the Drs. Thomas and Sharon Watkins Summer Research Fellowship.

Carolina Ph.D. candidate Mollie Yacano studies an invasive species that is surprisingly effective at preventing erosion and pollution on the North Carolina coast.

Doctoral hooding ceremony, graduate student tours, and off-campus student life.

Former Weiss fellow Parag Saiki selected for international research fellowship.