Celebrating the 2023 winners of the Three Minute Thesis.

Savannah Ryburn, a fifth year UNC-Chapel Hill Ph.D. student, conducts her research through the Bruno lab, led by biology professor John Bruno, and the Galapagos Science Center.

Meet John Easterbrook, Ph.D., The Graduate School’s inaugural executive director of strategic initiatives — a role designed to advocate for and support graduate and professional students at Carolina.

More than 800 incoming graduate students gathered at the 2023 Graduate Orientation on Wednesday, August 15; they are some of the 2,400 new Carolina graduate students from all areas of campus.

Rosemary Gay is a Ph.D. student within the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been awarded the James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on the politics and evolution of peanut farming.

Sarah Blanton is a Ph.D. student within the Department of Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been awarded the Thomas E. Sox Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on transnational labor economies and farmworker narratives.

Master of Applied Professional Studies graduate student Jesse Hunt is on track to becoming the first graduate of the newly launched master’s degree program, offered by The Graduate School.

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.

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.