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.

Carolina’s place as a leader in supporting first-generation students was recently reaffirmed by the Center for First-generation Student Success.

On Monday, our campus experienced a tragic shooting that greatly affected our Carolina community, including our graduate and professional students. Please know your mental health and well-being are of the utmost importance to The Graduate School in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

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.

The Master of City and Regional Planning has ranked highly in a nationwide publication.