Inspired by students, Royster fellow Matthew Clayton works to improve social and mental health among teenagers.

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

Doctoral student merges computer science, love of language with research goal of improving quality of life

Doctoral students Henry Willis, Claire Chipman, and Brionca Taylor have received summer grants to support their research on African-Americans or the broader African diaspora.

Elizabeth Christenson has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to study critical languages abroad.

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.

The Royster Society of Fellows attracts exceptionally talented graduate students from around the world to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The fellowship program also prepares them for unprecedented global learning opportunities.

Madelyn Percy’s work has taken her to Chile, France, Belize, Iceland and the Galapagos Archipelago. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Percy is pursuing her goal of becoming a “rock solid geoscience educator.”