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The 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award goes to Lauren Austin (left), Public Policy and Amanda Burmeister, Biological Sciences. This award is presented each year by the Graduate School to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte. Austin’s work, “Afraid to Breathe: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic […]

The Graduate School at UNC Charlotte recently co-hosted and took part in a multi-institution professional development conference “Building Graduate Community and a Culture of Inclusion” on the campus of Virginia Tech. This is the second year of the regional drive-in conference which focuses on best-practices in graduate student services. This year’s theme was how institutions […]

UNC Charlotte broke ground at the corner of Craver and Mary Alexander roads for a new campus facility that, when complete, will reshape the way science is taught and studied at North Carolina’s urban research university. Shared by University leaders and faculty, staff, students, alumni, public officials, community partners and friends, the celebratory event represented […]

Dr. Chuang Wang, Professor of Educational Research and 2018 recipient of the 2018 Harshini V. De Silva Graduate Mentor Award, was recently selected to receive the UNC Charlotte’s 2019 International Education Faculty Award. More information on Dr. Wang’s latest award can be found in the Academic Affairs Weekly Digest.

Students representing a wide range of educational disciplines received this year’s Thomas L. Reynolds Graduate Student Research Award. The Reynolds Fellowship was created by its namesake, Associate Provost and Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds, to assist with the costs that are overlooked in other funding sources and to help students stay focused on their research […]

Yuehan Shao (top) and Katie Wilkers were presented awards by Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds. Yuehan Shao, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, and Katie Wilkers, MS, Kinesiology, were named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA) for 2018-19. The Graduate School hosts the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award annually to honor top TAs nominated by faculty supervisors for their […]

Graduate students Krystal Turner, MA, Counseling, Rebecca Blanchard, MA, Counseling and Rachel Saunders, Ph.D., Counselor Education, were honored recently by the UNC Charlotte Mu Tau Beta chapter of international counseling honor society Chi Sigma Iota. Turner was named 2019 Outstanding Master’s Student, Saunders was named the year’s Outstanding Doctoral Student, and Blanchard was cited for […]

UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Professor Steven Rogelberg is the 2019 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award in recognition of excellence in research. He was honored formally at an awards ceremony Tuesday, April 2, at the Harris Alumni Center at Johnson Glen. Since 1987, the University annually, with the […]

Lydia Roos, doctoral student in Health Psychology, received the 2019-20 P.E.O. International Scholarship from the P.E.O Sisterhood, an organization focused on helping women around the world participate in graduate study in the U.S. and Canada. The P.E.O. Scholar Award is a competitive, merit-based $15,000 award intended to recognize and encourage academic excellence and achievement by […]

Rick Tankersley has been appointed Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development effective May 1, 2019. Tankersley has been serving as the interim vice chancellor since May 2018. He also has held the posts of Executive Director of the Charlotte Research Institute and as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of […]