It’s been one year since our new MAPS (Master of Applied Professional Studies) program launched and we’re thrilled to report its early success.

We couldn’t bid 2023 farewell without expressing our deepest gratitude to everyone who generously contributed to our success this past year.

This past October, we partnered with the GPSG to host another successful Fall Wellness Festival at the Carolina Student Union.

The Graduate School’s own Brian Rybarczyk thoroughly enjoyed the 2023 Tar Heel Bus Tour trip.

At our annual 3MT competition, graduate students have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their (often complex) research to a non-specialist audience. Our latest competition was nothing short of impressive.

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.