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Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Joan Lorden was recently honored with a tribute to her long career of dedication to student success. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.
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 […]
In a 2023 report from The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UNC Charlotte’s prominence for research and academic excellence is growing, placing among the top 114 U.S. universities and 33 spots above the last survey. Read more in Inside UNC Charlotte.
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 […]
The final round of competition for this year’s top Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®️) presenter will be on Nov. 18 at 4:30 in Rowe 130. From a total field of 76 Charlotte researchers vying in this year’s contest, 10 made it to the final round. Graduate students from across campus took the challenge to pare down complex […]
The Winters (Calif.) Express community newspaper recently featured the life and times of Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds to celebrate his upcoming retirement. Read the story at Winters Express.
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 […]
Johnna Watson, UNC Charlotte Graduate School Associate Dean, has been selected to participate in the 2022-2023 cohort of Leadership Cabarrus, a civic leadership program of The Chamber, Leading Business in Cabarrus and sponsored by Duke Energy. Watson joins a select group of 35 community, government and business leaders participating in a series of monthly classes […]
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 […]