Meet Ph.D. student Savannah Ryburn, an expert n the diet and ecology of sharks.

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk is a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. He has received the James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship as he works to complete his dissertation on liberal internationalism in East and Southeast Asia in the 20th century.

Graduate education is defined by the ladder metaphor— work your way up from student to professor with your job eventually becoming your whole life— but we need new metaphors that offer more room for exploration and failure, writes CareerWell’s Vanessa Doriott Anderson.

Taylor West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As she continues working on her dissertation that focuses on positive interactions between strangers, West has received the Laura Mayer Summer Research Fellowship.

Meet a graduating Tar Heel — Kate Slate (MA ’23) with the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Doctoral candidate utilizes niche library at The New York Botanical Garden to help complete dissertation on vanilla.

The humanities are framed as in constant crisis, writes CareerWell’s Vanessa Doriott Anderson, but, in fact, they prepare graduate students extraordinarily well for the world of work.

Hooper Schultz ’14, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, works to produce oral histories of people in the LGBTQ community.

Thirty-three students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received recognition from the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Graduate student works on developing therapies for people with cystic fibrosis and tests therapies that could minimize symptoms.