Adam Reitzel, Professor of Biological Sciences and co-director for the CIPHER Center, was recently named Faculty Fellow of Grant Writing in the new UNC Charlotte Graduate & Postdoctoral Writing Center (GPWC).
As a Faculty Fellow, Reitzel will bring his exceptional scholarly writing experience to aid the development of grant writing talent among postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in doctoral and research master’s degree programs. His focus will be on the development and delivery of writing curricula to train cohorts of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to find and apply for grants in both STEM and social science fields.
He will begin his new role in January 2024.
“We are excited and proud to have Dr. Reitzel join the effort to build the University’s writing talent,” said Graduate School Interim Dean Pinku Mukherjee. “He brings with him a reputation for not only achieving ground-breaking discoveries but for communicating those achievements with impact.”
Reitzel began his Charlotte career in 2012 with a focus on how marine organisms respond to changes in the environment. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal publications since joining the University and received funding from some of the nation’s largest research institutions.
The Reitzel Lab boasts funding from such institutions as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Human Frontier Science Program. Students on the Reitzel team have received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and research grants from various state, national and international organizations.
Reitzel was also recognized for his focus on collaboration in his research. He brings researchers together to investigate problems across traditional disciplinary boundaries － from the lab to the field and in computation.
“Learning strategies to write well is the most important and impactful skill a trainee can learn during their university training,” Dr. Reitzel said. “Writing is a lifelong skill that a person will reuse throughout their career no matter where they go."
The GPWC was created as a collaboration between the Graduate School, the Division of Research and the Writing Resources Center. The Center offers a range of writing support to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, including writing groups, workshops, retreats and dissertation coaching.
The Center is jointly staffed by Dr. Lisa Russell-Pinson, Associate Teaching Professor of Writing in the Graduate School, and Dr. Katie Garahan, Director of the WRC. Russell-Pinson and Garahan also co-supervise the new Doctoral Writing Fellows Program, which trains doctoral students and candidates to work in the GPWC.