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The Gerald G. Fox Master of Public Administration ranked in the top 17 percent of public affairs programs in the latest U.S. News and World Report “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, published Mar. 30. The latest recognition highlights the MPA program’s exceptional commitment to students’ needs and its leadership on societal issues through research and innovation, […]

Four students – two from the William States Lee College of Engineering and two from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences – were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2021. The four; Forest Atcheson, Electrical Engineering, Terawit Kongruengkit, Materials Engineering, Anthony Lindsay, Political Science, and […]

Graduate Faculty Fellow and Philosophy Professor Dr. Lisa Rasmussen addressed questions from WCNC-TV recently on the ethics involved with cutting line for COVID-19 vaccine shots. Rasmussen, who is leading a study at UNC Charlotte on ethics in research, said “It’s not clear that you can have a tight enough reign on this to make it […]

Akin Ogundiran, a Chancellor’s Professor and professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is the 2021 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award, in recognition of excellence in research. He was honored at a special Zoom ceremony on March 18. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

The Graduate School will host the 2021 Graduate Student Success and Wellness conference (GSSW2021) May 6-7, in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Graduate School and Appalachian State University. Topics for the event include the role graduate students play in research institutions, recent research on food insecurity, and a keynote presentation by renowned poet and professor […]

The University improved its standing as a Military Friendly campus from Bronze to Silver for the 2021-22 year. The award level denotes the extent to which the University meets and exceeds the standards for Military Friendly. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

Stanford University’s Tomorrow’s Professor, an online faculty development resource, recently featured an excerpt from a book chapter by the Graduate School’s Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing, Lisa Russell-Pinson. Russell-Pinson teaches graduate-level academic writing courses and develops workshops and initiatives to help doctoral candidates succeed in dissertation writing. The chapter, entitled “From Avoidance to Action: Helping […]

Ya-yu Lo, professor of Special Education and graduate program director for the M.Ed. and MAT programs in the Department of Special Education and Child Development, is the 2021 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award. She was honored at a special Zoom ceremony Thursday, Feb. 18. Lo specializes in school-based multi-tiered interventions […]

UNC Charlotte’s Master of Science in Mathematical Finance program was named among the nation’s top-ranked by TFE Times, an online platform that offers news on business, culture, tech and rankings of colleges, accounting, business analytics, computer engineering, economics, education, finance, law, management, marketing, and medicine. Read more at the Belk College of Business.

Peter Wong, Associate Professor of Architecture, was selected to receive the Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for 2020-2021 for his contributions to student success above and beyond his teaching role. The Reynolds Leadership Award honors excellence in graduate program administration and is presented annually to a Graduate Program Director (GPD) or Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC). […]