Graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill practice and polish communication skills during a three-part boot camp.

The Graduate School has named Brian Rybarczyk as its associate dean for professional development and funding, effective December 1. 

As a graduate student with global impact, we asked Sampreeti Bhattacharya about her take on International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education.

GiveTHANKS, Three Minute Thesis results, and Veterans Day.

Dean Suzanne Barbour writes for Higher Ed Works about teamwork in science and how to support the next generation of scholars and leaders.

Ava Vargason took the top prize during The Graduate School’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition.

Amanda Carroll ’09 (’12 MS, ’21 Ph.D.) supports veterans by way of her research into resilience among aging adults. Experience in the clinic working as an occupational therapist led her to pursue the occupational science Ph.D. program at Carolina in the Department of Allied Health Sciences.

Graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and in the Department of Chemistry pioneered a peer-mentorship initiative, alongside The Graduate School’s professional development program, in order to better serve incoming graduate students. 

Meet Bryn Barker and DJ Passey—married Ph.D. students in the Department of Mathematics who are parents to twin boys.

November is American Indian Heritage Month, and The Graduate School spoke with Annie Francis, a Ph.D. candidate in the UNC School of Social Work, about her work to improve outcomes for American Indian children in foster care.