Sixteen students receive prestigious funding from National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Carolina graduate students in multiple STEM-related research areas received awards helping to broaden and diversify talent in these fields.
Diversity and Student Success ‘Beyond These Walls’ highlights identity, stress, and resiliency among black families
Diversity and Student Success held its annual Beyond These Walls event online in April 2021, which featured three doctoral students from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience’s StAR lab.
Jennifer Gerz-Escandón selected for national program that prepares administrators, faculty for senior leadership roles
‘The IAspire Leadership Academy addresses a long-standing problem in higher education: the dearth of people of color in leadership positions,’ said Suzanne Barbour, dean of The Graduate School.
UNC School of Education, University of Missouri researchers work to help high school students understand COVID-19
‘I care about K-12 students having the opportunity to learn science in a way that helps them make sense of their world,’ says doctoral student Molly Ewing.
Precarious workers face unique challenges related to COVID-19; NSF-funded study focuses on NYC gig workers, low-income workers
Graduate students Ken Cai Kowalski and Erica Janko are assisting Alexandrea Ravenelle, author of the book ‘Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy.’
Diversifying research in the sciences
The Graduate School encourages students pursuing their graduate education to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Student Focus: Lisa Bauer
Doctoral student merges computer science, love of language with research goal of improving quality of life
Shaping the future of science
National Science Foundation Fellowships catalyze future leaders and researchers