Faculty and graduate students create the I4 Boundary Spanners program to address local COVID-19 concerns by combining data analysis with firsthand community perspectives
Graduate students and recent graduate alumni apply for The Graduate School’s annual awards and are nominated by their academic departments.
The Graduate School project, funded through the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, provides a team approach combining data science, public policy and service.
In addition to providing courses within a variety of areas, CareerWell plans to offer projects and events in collaboration with companies, nonprofits and other organizations.
Goines also makes valuable time for mentoring prospective graduate students. Her podcast focuses on issues such as applying for fellowships and the need to put failure in perspective.
CoronaChat team produces bilingual content to address ‘a real gap in Spanish-language information on coronavirus.’
The professorship emphasizes mentoring, and Robertson says that working with graduate students ‘has been one of the best and most meaningful experiences of my career.’
His research focuses on how galaxies known as blue nuggets form, generate stars and evolve into red nuggets.
Assistant professor Caela O’Connell and doctoral student Sierra Roark, members of the team, discuss the study and their research investigating how communities have responded to other challenges and hardships.
Commencement message for the May 2020 graduates of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
