Student Focus: Larisa Svirsky
Larisa Svirsky, doctoral student and poet, is one of 21 students to receive prestigious Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in 2018.
Larisa Svirsky, doctoral student and poet, is one of 21 students to receive prestigious Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in 2018.
Her fellowship provides, among other benefits, mentoring from Annegret Fauser, the professor who selected her specifically for the award.
Chen receives an American Dissertation Fellowship, and Shor receives a Career Development Grant
Megan Riley discusses the value of her UNC-Chapel Hill master of professional science degree in the PSM Alumni and Graduation Chronicle.
Doctoral student Carter Smith is researching living shorelines as an economic way for coastal homeowners to protect their property while also doing something good for the environment.
Elizabeth Christenson has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to study critical languages abroad.
Banu Gökariksel, associate professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s geography department, has been appointed the Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education.
Blossom Damania, Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received the 2018 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring.
Sallie Nowell, a doctoral student in the School of Medicine’s Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the 2018 Boka W. Hadzija Award.
Two doctoral students, the chair of The Graduate School’s Graduate Education Advancement Board and the SPIRE program were among recipients of University Diversity Awards.