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The Fall 2022 Commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 16 at the Dale F. Halton Arena included degrees conferred to 1,266 doctoral, master’s and certificate students. The 6 p.m. Graduate School Commencement was one of three ceremonies hosted by the University over the weekend. Graduate Spotlights This year’s graduates included several stand-out students: Ashley Acosta M.A. […]

UNC Charlotte’s Mukulika Bose, ’22 Ph.D., her mentor Pinku Mukherjee, Irwin Belk Endowed Professor of Cancer Research and other Charlotte researchers invented an antibody that could be used to slow pancreatic cancer relapse and metastasis Read the full story in Inside UNC Charlotte.

As efforts mount in Iron Station, North Carolina to preserve one of the few remaining examples of the historic Rosenwald Schools, UNC Charlotte’s Camille Richardson, M.A.- Anthropology, is helping uncover the hidden secrets left behind by the children who once played in its school yard. Richardson is leading an archeological dig at Mount Vernon School, […]

Pinku Mukherjee, who currently is the Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor for Cancer Research and associate dean for research and graduate education in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, will serve as the interim associate provost and dean of the Graduate School effective Jan. 3, 2023, succeeding Tom Reynolds, who will retire after 40 years […]

Louie Alexander, M.S. in Bioinformatics student, was selected as the first-place winner in the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Nov. 18 for the presentation titled “Identifying Sorghum Plant Genes to Improve Biofuel Production”. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia that […]

Sylvia Marshall (far left), History, Alexandra Pando, Anthropology, and Eric Webb, Meteorology, each were selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award for 2022. Marshall’s thesis won in the Humanities and Fine Arts category. Her thesis, “Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956,” examines the impact of […]

Nov. 16 marked the completion of Charlotte’s Fall 2022 Accelerate to Industry (A2i) series, six information-packed sessions on vital career preparation topics led by executives of some of the region’s most prominent businesses. The series, sponsored by the Center for Graduate Life and Learning (CGLL), is a workforce development program that allows graduate students to […]

Faculty and alumni STEM experts are actively recruiting talented women and girls to enter STEM fields to improve research and business outcomes. In this UNC Charlotte feature, “Researchers and Alumni Inspire New Generations of Women STEM Professionals,” writer Sonja Barisic focuses on the remarkable accomplishments of four Charlotte STEM leaders. Read more in Women in […]

UNC Charlotte is again recognized for its commitment to helping students from historically underrepresented groups earn graduate and undergraduate degrees. In its 2022 Diverse 100 rankings, the news magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education listed UNC Charlotte graduate programs in the top 10 in two categories and No. 3 among North Carolina-based universities in all […]

Two students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Andrew Brotherton, Chemistry, and Paul Scholes, Sociology, were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) from the National Science Foundation for 2021-22. The GRF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral […]