Mackiewicz is the recipient of The Gordon W. and Janice L. Plumblee Summer Research Fellowship, supported by generous donors and by The Graduate School.

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.

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.

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.

The 2021 recipients of the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award are Katherine Calvin, Alex Gertner, Nicholas Levis and Xun Xiao

StigmaFree Carolina, an initiative of The Graduate School’s Royster Society of Fellows, will host a virtual panel discussion on mental health within the Black community on Nov. 2.

A new study reveals an interesting phenomenon that occurred during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: a surge in support for political leaders.

At the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic, major cities like New York became epicenters for the virus’s spread. But rural populations have also been hit hard.

Employing wastewater epidemiology UNC microbiologist Rachel Noble is leading a state-wide collaboration tracking novel coronavirus outbreaks across North Carolina, gaining insight that testing individuals does not offer.

Optical Journal Podcast – Daniel speaks with Rachel Woodul, Medical Geographer, and Disease Ecologist. Rachel is a doctoral student and 2021 Impact Award recipient