Grad Admissions

Graduate students interested in a teaching career will get a boost from the new Future Faculty Fellowship program recently launched by the Thomas L. Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning. The program’s first cohort of 10 graduate students on track to graduate this academic year spent last week with the Graduate School’s Faculty Associate […]

Technology – for all its benefits – sometimes sparks unintended challenges that require new ideas to solve. Solutions of this kind – grounded in research that advances technology’s positive aspects and reduces its risks for individuals and organizations – are exactly what Dongsong Zhang and Lina Zhou from the Belk College of Business create. “The […]

The College of Science hosted the Carolina Raptor Center as they released their 10,000th rehabilitated raptor on Saturday, Aug. 10. The red-tailed hawk spent 58 days in CRC’s hospital facility and was released into the trees at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion in front of a crowd of guests, including families and CRC volunteers. The event […]

Annalise Tolley, a doctoral student in the Health Psychology program, recently became Charlotte’s fourth recipient of the highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Award. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) provide merit-based awards for women who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree. They are provided by the P.E.O Sisterhood, an organization focused on helping women participate in graduate study.. […]

Congratulations to Monica Rasmussen ’24, Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, and Providence Adu ’24, Ph.D. in Geography, on receiving the Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2024. Each year, the Distinguished Dissertation Award is presented by the Graduate School Dean to recognize exceptional research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte. Rasmussen’s […]

Growing up in the small West Texas border town of Tornillo, Yelixza Avila viewed military service as her only way to experience life beyond her hometown. But the first-generation college student persevered in pursuit of higher education, enrolling at nearby Sul Ross State, where she studied biology and chemistry. “Ten weeks in the summer in […]

UNC Charlotte has received the 2024 Inspiring Programs in Business Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, for the Doctorate in Business Administration in The Belk College of Business. Charlotte is one of only two universities in North Carolina to receive the recognition this year. The national award spotlights programs, particularly at universities and colleges, that […]

UNC Charlotte’s online graduate programs have again received national recognition in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Online Master’s Degrees rankings, which were released Wednesday, Feb. 7. Three master’s disciplines received U.S. News rankings, including top 50 recognition for education and nursing. Here’s a look at the new graduate program rankings: Best Online […]

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 […]

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.