Grad Admissions

Allison Petrauskas ’16 recently was awarded the New Professional Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association. Petrausks teaches at Harold E. Winkler Middle School in Concord, NC. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

Charlotte’s Master of Science in Mathematical Finance program recently ranked among the top ten programs in the nation by TFE Times’ Best Masters of Financial Engineering program rankings. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

The Diversity Scholars Forum held on Friday, March 24 showcased research that centers on diversity, equity and inclusion issues related to the community － both on campus and in the greater Charlotte community. To showcase their work, amplify their voices and celebrate the value of diversity, student presenters gave short lightning-round style poster presentations about […]

By Lynn Roberson Megan Mitchem ’21, a UNC Charlotte doctoral student, volunteers in her son Anthony’s elementary school. When he was a third-grader, she displayed photos of individuals tending beehives, practicing karate and hiking on trails, to name a few. Read more at UNC Charlotte Features.

Charlotte faculty members Kirill Afonin and Margaret Quinlan are the 2023 recipients of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal and the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award, respectively. They were honored at a faculty awards ceremony March 7. “One of the most significant accomplishments for us over the past few years has been the […]

Currently pursuing his Ph.D. with a focus on Data Analytics and Higher Education, Yash Tadimalla recently returned from a trip to Cape Town, South Africa where he represented the World Student Platform for Engineering Education (SPEED) on the panel Engineering for Good – Peace & Humanitarian Engineering at the 2022 World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF). […]

Liz Ward, ‘14 MSRE was recently honored as one of the 2023 Class of Influential Leaders by AACSB International — the world’s largest business education alliance. Ward was selected for her work in affordable housing and upward mobility as the founder of Give Impact LLC, an organization focused on creating positive change through affordable housing. […]

Eric Webb, ’20 M.S. in Earth Sciences, received the 2023 Master’s Thesis Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ (CSGS) for his work, “Reanalysis of the Extended Multivariate ENSO Index.” His award was in the Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering thesis category. Webb, along with Sylvia Marshall, History, and Alexandra Pando, Anthropology, were selected […]

Johnna Watson, Associate Dean of the Graduate School for Enrollment Management, announces the promotion of Julie Goodliffe to Assistant Dean of the Graduate School for Funding and Research. Goodliffe began her career as a scientist, earned a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and joined UNC Charlotte as an […]

UNC Charlotte’s online graduate programs received national recognition in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Online Master’s Programs rankings, which were released Tuesday, Jan. 24. Three master’s disciplines received U.S. News rankings, including top 50 recognition for education and nursing. Here’s a look at the new graduate program rankings. Best Online Master’s in Education The […]