Lily Chen, a second-year Ph.D. student and Royster Fellow, has been awarded a 2-year grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. This grant, totaling $544,140.60, will support Chen’s research project in collaboration with the United Chinese Americans (UCA) WAVES Youth Mental Health Collaborative.
The sociology Ph.D. student, Austin Vo, spent time in France to study “indigenous responses to French colonialism,” he shared, and is continuing his research in Vietnam and Senegal this year.
Winter and Franklin combined dedication to academic excellence with extraordinary service to others. The Boka Award last honored two graduate student recipients in 2014.
Carolina graduate students in multiple STEM-related research areas received awards helping to broaden and diversify talent in these fields.
U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 “Best Graduate Schools” list named multiple Carolina graduate degree programs in the top 10.
More than 400 graduate students received internal or external funding for their research endeavors.
Kumarini “Kumi” Silva named incoming Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education.
The initiative aims to improve working conditions and well-being for graduate and professional students.
For excellence in teaching undergraduate students, each teaching assistant receives a $5,000 stipend.
Former lawyer Andrew Adair came to Carolina for a doctorate in mathematics, his first passion.
