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UNC Charlotte graduate and undergraduate students are invited to take part in the Penn Resilience Program. The program is a series of free workshops that teach strategies and skills to help you reach your goals, manage stress and strengthen your relationships. These popular workshops have been attended by over a million leaders in medicine, sports, […]

When I was a second-semester graduate student, my Principal Investigator (PI) encouraged me to get involved with an on-campus organization where she was the faculty advisor. This organization – the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) – was relatively new on campus, focusing on promoting diversity in STEM. That semester, […]

At the Fall Graduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16 at the Dale F. Halton Arena, degrees were conferred to doctoral, master’s and certificate students. The 10 a.m. commencement was one of three ceremonies hosted by the University. Degrees conferred included over 100 doctoral, 850 master’s and 200 graduate certificates. During the week leading up […]

Adam Reitzel, Professor of Biological Sciences and co-director for the CIPHER Center, was recently named Faculty Fellow of Grant Writing in the new UNC Charlotte Graduate & Postdoctoral Writing Center (GPWC). As a Faculty Fellow, Reitzel will bring his exceptional scholarly writing experience to aid the development of grant writing talent among postdoctoral fellows and […]

Jennifer Gilby, M.S. in Bioinformatics student, was selected as the first-place winner in the 2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Nov. 17 for the presentation titled Metagenomic Analysis of Non-Human Pathogens in North Carolina Wastewater. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia […]

The new Graduate & Postdoctoral Writing Center (GPWC), a collaboration between the Graduate School, Writing Resources Center (WRC) and the Division of Research, officially launched on October 1. The GPWC is located in Denny 213 and offers a range of writing support to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, including writing groups, workshops, dissertation coaching, retreats […]

M. Lyn Exum, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Deborah Beete, senior lecturer and director, Masters of Public Health Program, are the 2023 recipients of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence and UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence, respectively. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

The 2022-23 Graduate Program Excellence Award recipients, originally announced in May, were honored Sept. 20 in a reception held in the Student Union Art Gallery. Honorees are shown with Dr. Pinku Mukherjee, Interim Dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. Tom Reynolds, Dean Emeritus. Dr. Jy Wu, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, was selected to receive […]

Growing up in Mississippi, Camille Richardson witnessed the telling and retelling of the tragic story of a family member who perished when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed his home. “While saving his family from the fire, he didn’t make it out,” Richardson said. “My mother first told me the story when I was very young. […]

For many, the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic seems over. However, for patients whose immune systems are compromised by cancer or by cancer therapies, fear of COVID-19 infection and severe disease remains very real. Currently, CDC guidance recommends that immunocompromised patients receive COVID-19 booster shots “as needed.” While this flexibility is useful for patients with […]