General News

Last Spring the Faculty Council approved a new grade mode option for graduate research credit. Beginning Fall 2021 the default grade mode for Doctoral Dissertation Research and Master’s Thesis Research will be Satisfactory Progress /Unsatisfactory Progress (SP/UP). Programs that offer a MASTER’ S THESIS option may request that a Standard Letter grade (A, B, C, […]

Graduate School Director of Funding and Fellowships Julie Goodliffe is conducting an outreach to potentially eligible candidates to apply for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dr. Goodliffe, an experienced NSF reviewer at the national level, offers live information sessions and assistance in completing the Fellowship application. For more information, contact Julie Goodliffe, jmgoodli@charlotte.edu.

Students representing a broad cross-section of UNC Charlotte graduate programs were selected to participate in the 2021-22 Graduate School Teaching Fellows program. 10 students were selected from among 43 applicants. Fellows receive a $3,000 award and participate in a two-semester training program for doctoral students pursuing careers in college-level teaching. Named as Graduate Teaching Fellows […]

Graduate Admissions is transitioning to Slate by Technolutions on September 15th, which will provide the University with a comprehensive, scalable, integrated and sustainable recruitment and admissions system. The current AdmissionPros system (mygradschool.uncc.edu AND eGRAD.uncc.edu) will be brought down on September 7th at 11:59 pm. Prospective students are being encouraged to submit their application and supporting […]

The Center for Graduate Life has changed its name to the Center for Graduate Life and Learning in order to better capture the breadth of our offerings. In recent years, we have expanded our professional development portfolio with new programs such as Accelerate to Industry, the Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, and the STEM Communication Fellows […]

An architecture and engineering interdisciplinary team including graduate and undergraduate researchers received a National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation grant to advance its research. The research project will develop high-performance regenerative windows integrated with climate responsive solar cells under a $250,000 Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). […]

Counseling doctoral students Brittany Glover and Meg Garcia earned national fellowships for their work supporting the mental health and wellness in underserved minority communities. Glover was accepted to the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP) and Meg Garcia was admitted to the American Psychological Association Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (APA IMFP). […]

Brigid Mullany and Steve Schmid from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science will lead a project to develop a Center for Additive Manufacture of Advanced Ceramics funded by a 2022-24 University of North Carolina Research Opportunity Initiative (ROI) grant. The project is seen as vital to the needs of the energy industry and […]

Tyler Carrier, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2020, is the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award winner in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences for his work on “Symbiosis Across Diet-Induced Phenotypes of Larval Sea Urchins.” Through his research on marine invertebrates, Carrier has examined the ability of organisms to not only find an environment in which they adapt to […]

Letice Bussiere, Mechanical Engineering master’s student, was selected by NC Space Grant for a summer internship at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. NC Space Grant is a North Carolina consortium of academic institutions that support space-related science in cooperation with NASA. Read more at NC Space Grant.