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Counseling doctoral students Brittany Glover and Meg Garcia earned national fellowships for their work supporting the mental health and wellness in underserved minority communities. Glover was accepted to the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP) and Meg Garcia was admitted to the American Psychological Association Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (APA IMFP). […]

Brigid Mullany and Steve Schmid from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science will lead a project to develop a Center for Additive Manufacture of Advanced Ceramics funded by a 2022-24 University of North Carolina Research Opportunity Initiative (ROI) grant. The project is seen as vital to the needs of the energy industry and […]

Tyler Carrier, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2020, is the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award winner in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences for his work on “Symbiosis Across Diet-Induced Phenotypes of Larval Sea Urchins.” Through his research on marine invertebrates, Carrier has examined the ability of organisms to not only find an environment in which they adapt to […]

Letice Bussiere, Mechanical Engineering master’s student, was selected by NC Space Grant for a summer internship at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. NC Space Grant is a North Carolina consortium of academic institutions that support space-related science in cooperation with NASA. Read more at NC Space Grant.

Durham, NC-based Microgrid Labs recently was selected by the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Incubatenergy® Labs program as one of 20 startup companies that will conduct accelerated demonstrations of their technologies with utilities and EPRI as part of Incubatenergy Labs’ 2021 Cohort. Microgrid, co-founded by Namit Singh, 2012 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, was chosen from more […]

The Center for Graduate Life (CGL) recently announced the 2021-22 Graduate Life Fellows (GLF), a group of graduate student leaders who help create, promote and run events and initiatives for the graduate student body. GLFs serve as ambassadors and advocates for graduate students and provide a connection between the students and the Center for Graduate […]

UNC Charlotte’s Storrs Gallery was dedicated to professor emeritus and founding College of Arts + Architecture dean Ken Lambla in a May 14 ceremony. Lambla joined the UNC Charlotte architecture faculty in 1983, becoming chair in 1998 and dean of the College of Architecture (now the School of Architecture) in 2002. Read more at the […]

The Belk College of Business’ MBA was named a “Tier 1” program for North American universities in the newly released 2021 CEO Magazine Global MBA Rankings. This is the sixth consecutive year the program has achieved Tier 1 ranking. Read more at the Belk College of Business.

Ahad Dewan Mohammed Abdul Ahad, PhD Electrical Engineering, and Dylan Turner, PhD Geography, each have been awarded the Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Doctoral Fellowship which provides $18,500 plus tuition and insurance beginning in the fall. Recipients of the Cato Award, one of 13 Graduate School donor funded fellowships, also receive tuition and health insurance […]

More than 220 graduate and professional administrators and faculty from around the country participated in the 2021 Graduate Student Success and Wellness conference (GSSW2021) hosted virtually by UNC Charlotte on May 6-7. The conference theme, Graduate Student Success and Wellness, focused on innovative and best practices to help students thrive. This conference was conceived by […]