Silva, an associate professor in the department of communication, brings goals of expanding the annual Royster Global conference and developing a new interdisciplinary first-year seminar to her new role.
Zari Taylor, The Graduate School’s senior fellow for the Weiss Urban Livability Program, will receive her Ph.D. from the department of communication in May. She will be returning home to New York City to join NYU in the fall.
Former lawyer Andrew Adair came to Carolina for a doctorate in mathematics, his first passion.
Undergraduate student reading groups, hosted by the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, meet weekly to discuss challenging topics over noodles and dumplings.
For the first time, the graduate program in sport administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been ranked among the top five graduate programs in sport business in the world.
Recently more than 30 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students advanced their research and gained valuable career skills by organizing and participating in academic workshops with graduate students at Carolina’s strategic partner, King’s College London.
Collaboration is one of the most important skills for graduate students to experience. The UNC department of chemistry hosts an annual three-day competition called Sci-athon that invites teams of graduate students from various STEM disciplines to come up with the next big idea in chemistry.
Two faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have received The Graduate School’s Faculty Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring: Gary Pielak in the department of chemistry and Kumi Silva in the department of communication.
Religious studies Ph.D. student Jocelyn Burney relishes the public humanities aspect of her graduate work — from contextualizing a pottery exhibit in Carolina Hall to teaching the Hebrew Bible at a Raleigh women’s prison to supervising the work of undergraduate students at an archaeological dig in Israel.
German graduate student Jimmy Dögerl chose UNC’s Transatlantic Master’s Program to study the American perspective on climate policy and spend a formative year in the American South.
