John West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As he works to complete his dissertation — research that focuses on emotional granularity in individuals and how it shapes our memory — he has been awarded the Drs. Thomas and Sharon Watkins Summer Research Fellowship.
Graduate students from UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University have joined forces to reverse rising maternal death rates in minorities.
Farnosh Mazandarani (Ph.D. ’22) graduated this spring from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media where she studied popular pornographic media content in the U.S.
Catherine Haas (MA ’22) and fellow graduate students won an Arts Innovation Grant to launch a new digital student journal, The Global Gazette.
Master’s degree student Jessica Howard seeks to inspire change through equity and excellence.
UNC School of Information & Library Science alumna Yuqiao Cao (’20, M.S.) awarded prestigious cultural heritage fellowship.
Ph.D. student Emily McDonnell is a proud citizen of the Navajo Nation who researches how material culture can be an expression of contemporary Indigenous identity and its connection with policy, geography, and economic development.
Graduate Education Advancement Board member Leah Townsend ’11 (’17 Ph.D.) contributes to start-up’s novel treatment for mental illness.
