Fellowship Recipients

Congratulations to the 2025-26 Graduate School Fellowship Award Recipients! We are so proud of you, your academic accomplishments, as well as your dedication and commitment in attaining your advanced degree. We also want to say thank you to the generous donors who have the vision and foresight to give selflessly of their time and treasure to help our graduate students be successful. Your gifts also help support research that cannot be found anywhere else in the region and bring internationally recognized faculty to instruct our students on cutting edge issues. We couldn’t do this without you. Thank You!

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2025-2026 UNC Charlotte Graduate School Fellowship Recipients

Thomas L. Reynolds Graduate Student Research Award

Adams Familusi, Ph.D. Civil Engineering
Daniel Voisine, M.Ed. Urban Education
Shontae Ivey, M.A. HIST

Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship

Sina Gholami, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Dr. Craig R. Brown Graduate Fellowship

Ky’Lexius Gwynn, M.Ed. Urban Education
Grace Mcquire, M.A. Latin American Studies

Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Graduate Fellowship

Justice Kotani, Ph.D. Geography
Bedilu Jebena, Ph.D. Data Science
Megan Dailey, Ph.D. Health Psychology
Yao Zhao, Ph.D. Educational Research
Nick Olouch, Ph.D. Special Education

DRReaM Graduate Fellowship

Sydney Stine, Master of Public Health

Lucille P. and Edward C. Giles Dissertation-Year Graduate Fellowship

Leyla Sanal-Noldner, Ph.D. Nanoscale Science
Sarah Murphy, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics
Ben Poole, Ph.D. Computing and Informations Systems
Jack Young, Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Kaitlin Klotz, Ph.D. Biology
Koffi Yao-Kouame, Ph.D. Public Policy

Herschel and Cornelia Everett Foundation First-Year Doctoral Graduate Fellowship

Ella Kellner, Ph.D. Biology

Herschel and Cornelia Everett Foundation Masters Graduate Fellowship

Hailey Moore, M.S. Data Science and Business Analytics

Faye Jacques Memorial Graduate Fellowship

Bethany Mace, M.A. History
Rajini Gupta, M.A. Counseling
Robin McNeill, Ed.D Educational Leadership
Janet Bealer, Masters of Social Work

John Paul Lucas Jr. Scholarship for Educational Leadership

Jason Berthiaume, M.A. English

Dr. William F. Kennedy Graduate Fellowship

Fatima Imran, Ph.D. Public Health

Joan F. Lorden Graduate Opportunity Scholarship

Anam Hafiz, M.S. Cyber Security

Claudia Reynolds Graduate Fellowship

Cameron Avery, Masters of Architecturee
Autumn King, M.S. Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner
Delandrus L.I. Seales, Ed.D. Educational Leadership
Hannah Faye, Ph.D. Biology

Zonta Club Scholarship

Abitha Sridhar, Masters of Business Administration
Brandi Johnston, M.S. Math