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Congratulations to the 2020 Graduate School Fellowship Award Recipients! We are so proud of you, your academic accomplishments, as well as your dedication and commitment in attaining your advanced degrees. We also want to say thank you to the generous donors who have the vision and foresight to give selflessly of their time and treasure […]

A record-setting 2,400 newly registered graduate students helped take UNC Charlotte fall enrollment over 30,000 for the first time in the University’s 75-year history. Enrollment figures published Sept. 21, 2020 also included 4,000 new first-year students and 2,600 transfer students. The graduate school enrolled 712 more in-state students than fall 2019. “We are now the […]

Through a graduate course in Public Health Sciences called Communicating and Disseminating Research, scholars are learning to increase the reach and impact of their research through effective communication. Student teams are using such tools as podcasts to share information of discoveries in public health research. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

Graduate students Ashkan Radnia, Gavin Reeb, and Spencer Sparagna in the School of Architecture landed an award in the 2020 Steel Design Student Competition, an annual contest presented by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Read more at the College of Arts + Architecture. -Story […]

Nominations are sought for the 2020 Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for a Graduate Program Director or Coordinator who exhibits excellent leadership and outstanding service. Graduate Program Directors and Coordinators are leadership positions for the University and play an important role in the success of graduate education. Dr. Lara Vetter, English, received the distinction for […]

Bioinformatics researcher Cynthia Gibas and a diverse team representing multiple academic departments have achieved national attention for work they are doing to help detect the presence of COVID-19 days sooner than is possible with today’s testing. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

The Graduate School currently seeks nominations for the annual competition for the 2021 Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award. Recognizing the full-time member of the graduate faculty who evinces outstanding graduate mentoring, nominations should come from a chair of the academic department. This award was established in memory of Dr. Harshini de Silva, an […]

The Graduate School currently seeks nominations for the 2021 First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal. Recognizing outstanding scholarship, creativity and/or research among senior full-time faculty members, nominations may come from any UNC Charlotte faculty member. The First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal has been awarded since 1988 with last year’s honoree being Dr. James Walsh, Department of […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering offers a Graduate Certificate in Precision Metrology Program that is designed to fill a knowledge gap many engineers experience. The program provides its students with a broader understanding of metrology, and exposes them to advanced techniques in dimensional measurement and data analysis. Learn more in a story by […]

Torrieann Dooley-Kennedy, (top left), Curriculum & Instruction, and Mubin Tarannum, Nanoscale Science, each were selected for the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2020. The award is presented each year by Graduate School Dean Thomas Reynolds to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte. Dooley-Kennedy’s dissertation, “ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning […]