Meet incoming Tar Heel graduate student Emily Chávez who will join the School of Social Work this fall.

Beth Mayer-Davis, the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and Medicine, chair of the Department of Nutrition and the director of the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center, has been named dean of The Graduate School, effective Sept. 1.

Suzanne Barbour, who became dean of The Graduate School in 2019, plans to step down at the end of August.

Congratulations to The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success team, which received a campus partner award from Student Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. 

Ph.D. student Samuel Akau engenders creative, participatory public policies.

Carolina Ph.D. candidate Mollie Yacano studies an invasive species that is surprisingly effective at preventing erosion and pollution on the North Carolina coast.

May 23 until May 27 is Graduate Education Week across North Carolina.

Researchers find black holes hiding in plain sight 

The Graduate School honored doctoral degree recipients with its annual hooding ceremony.

Ph.D. candidate Alexis Dennis will graduate with her third degree from Carolina this weekend and continue the research she began as an undergraduate in 2008.