Welcome to the 2022-2023 academic year, Tar Heels!

The Graduate School welcomed incoming graduate students to the UNC-Chapel Hill community.

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.

The Graduate School’s e-newsletter for July 2022.

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

Michelle Dromgold-Sermen is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dromgold-Sermen has been awarded the Peggy Totten Harpold Summer Research Fellowship.

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.