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Sarah Lowry, a Masters of Public Administration student at UNC Charlotte, recently was named a finalist for the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) conducted by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Since 1977, the Presidential Management Fellowship has connected the Nation’s top graduate students with opportunities within the Federal government. This is an extremely competitive selection […]

The town of Davidson, North Carolina, recently applauded a UNC Charlotte Masters of Public Administration (MPA) Honors team for conducting a hazard analysis for the town. The team documented potential hazards and assessed community preparedness as part of the project. Dr. Thomas Barth directs the MPA director in the Department of Political Science and Public […]

UNC Charlotte Health Services Research doctoral student Laura Clark has been recognized with a best research poster award at the 20th Annual European Congress of the International Society For Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). Clark was selected for the best poster award in the student category for her work on the burden of a renal […]

Master’s Graduates Melissa McLeod, Biology, and Jonathon Walker, Sociology, are the 2017-18 recipients of the Graduate School Outstanding Master’s Thesis Awards. McLeod was recognized in the Life Sciences category for her thesis, “The Role of Translesion Synthesis Polymerases REV1 and Pol eta in DNA Damage Response”. In the Social Science category, Jonathon Walker was honored […]

UNC Charlotte master’s student Corey B. Kelly’s thesis focusing on the public relations implications of NBA players’ protest of the national anthem was one of the most downloaded documents in October, according to ProQuest, a global online source for scholarly information. Kelly’s thesis, “Internal Activism and Its Implications for Organizational Legitimacy: A Case Study of […]

Doctoral students Bhaskar Mitra and Pankaj Bhowmik won first and second place, respectively, at the recent Duke Energy Week poster presentation. Only the top 20 teams/individuals were given the opportunity to present during the conference, held at the Fuqua School of Business. Mitra’s winning presentation was entitled “Protection Coordination for Assembly HVDC Breakers for Bipolar […]

Several graduate student teams from UNC Charlotte won three major awards in the 2017 Teradata University Network (TUN) Data and Analytics Challenge, an international data analytics competition. Photo (l to r) Vinaya Tinguria, Noelline Dsouza, Aysha Nahan, Esra Alshammari and Shaarvani Karvula One team received the Overall Winner (first place) and also People’s Choice Award […]

Congratulations to the Graduate School’s Debbie Roseman for her big win during this year’s annual UNC Charlotte Staff Fall Festival! Debbie works diligently as the Business Service Coordinator in Cato Hall and clearly has some real skill when it comes to baking. This year Debbie entered into the Bake-Off competition where she impressed judges and […]