The Graduate School will host another webinar in the series Office Hours with the Graduate School, Thursday, May 14 at 10 a.m. The session, entitled “Preparing for the Fall; How to Support and Retain Current Graduate Students,” will include time for open discussion.
Graduate Program Directors and other graduate leaders should have received an invitation to participate. If you did not receive an invitation, you may join the webinar at the scheduled time via WebEx.
Due to COVID-19, the Duolingo English Test is being accepted in addition to the TOEFL and IELTS tests. The initial minimum score of 105 has been increased to 115 based on the experience of admission offices across the country and on bench-marking data.
Visit Graduate Admissions for more information on meeting English language requirements.
Students will have access to an improved system for submitting petitions beginning June 1.
The new system offers:
Faculty will continue to have access to both systems until all open petitions have been completed in the old system.
Look for more information in the coming weeks regarding training and open swim opportunities.
If you have questions, contact Janet Morse, jmorse9@uncc.edu.
The Graduate School congratulates the graduating class of May 2020. A special message from Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds is available for download.
The Office Hours with the Graduate School webinar held May 7 was recorded and is available now for review.
Office Hours with the Graduate School – Revised!-20200507 1350-1
Thursday, May 7, 2020
8:34 am | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Play recording (1 hr 15 mins)
Recording password: (This recording does not require a password.)
Ventureprise® is seeking research topics, such as a response to COVID-19, that can earn researchers up to $5,000.
Ventureprise® is UNC Charlotte’s innovation and entrepreneurship center serving the campus and Charlotte region as a center of excellence for evidence based entrepreneurship.
The Summer 2020 Ventureprise Launch National Science Foundation I-Corps virtual cohort is being formed now. The program provides UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and students with commercialization training and up to an initial $5,000 in NSF funding. The goal of the program is to identify potential commercial uses and prepare for more substantial commercialization funding opportunities.
The next stage is a six month $50,000 NSF I-Corps Teams grant. The cohort will begin May 13 (rolling applications, last day to submit is May 10). For more information and to apply, please visit Ventureprise®. For questions, please contact Laura Smailes, lsmailes@uncc.edu.
Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds and staff will host another Office Hours with the Graduate School virtual forum on May 7 to discuss academics, enrollment and applications issues stemming from COVID-19.
The live session will begin May 7, 2020 at 10:00 am. The link below will be Live at that time. Remember, you must be logged into your NinerNet account to join a UNC Charlotte WebEx meeting.
If you’d like to receive a WebEx Calendar invite so you can add this Meeting to your Calendar, please email Karla Stanchina in the Graduate School and she’ll send you the invitation.
Graduate School senior leadership hosted a virtual forum with GPDs Apr. 29 to discuss a number of COVID-19-driven policy adjustments and to respond to questions.
The forum was recorded and is available on WebEx.
The Graduate School will host Office Hours with the Graduate School Apr. 29.
The virtual meeting will be hosted by Tom Reynolds and the senior staff of the Graduate School. It is intended to provide a forum for sharing information about Summer registration, options for admitted students and other matters GPDs and faculty are facing.
Agenda for the meeting includes:
The meeting will be available on WebEx from 10-11 a.m.
UNC Charlotte recently updated its policy on parental leave to keep pace with changing pressures faced by students, faculty and staff.
Read the full policy statement at Academic Affairs.
As a reminder, the Graduate School posts weekly application and enrollment reports to GPDNet allowing you to analyze and compare activity in your program. This is a helpful tool to guide your program in meeting targeted enrollment goals. You must be signed into your NinerNet account to download the reports. For questions, please contact Johnna Watson about enrollment reports, or Kathy Giddings for application reports.
The International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO) will host a WebEx Town Hall Apr. 27 to respond to questions about COVID-19 and visa and immigration regulations.
The session, scheduled from 3-4:40 p.m., will address travel, enrollment, employment (incl. OPT & CPT), and more. The content is intended for UNC Charlotte students and alumni on OPT & STEM OPT
Follow this link to WebEx to participate.
For more information and updates on COVID-19, please visit the ISSO website.
Margaret Kocherga, Ph.D., Nanoscale Science, was selected to join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory.
She will begin the two-year program in June. Her work through CRI will focus on the development of a single robust material to create higher-efficiency cost-effective OLEDS (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) used in digital displays.
Kocherga also won First Place in the Innovate Carolina 2020 Student Innovation Competition sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association. Margaret will receive a $750.00 cash prize for this award.
Read more at Ventureprise Launch.
Have an idea or research finding that the National Science Foundation may be interested in funding? Have an idea in response to COVID-19 and the current situation? Want to receive up to $5000 for your research or business idea? Apply to participate in the Summer 2020 Ventureprise Launch National Science Foundation I-Corps virtual cohort. The program provides UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and students with commercialization training and up to an initial $5000 in NSF funding. The goal of the program is to identify potential commercial uses and prepare for more substantial commercialization funding opportunities. The next stage is a six month $50,000 NSF I-Corps Teams grant. The cohort will begin May 13 (rolling applications, last day to submit is May 8). A complete schedule and application form can be found on the NSF I-Corps webpage. Contact: Principle Investigator Devin Collins (7-8058).
Note: the full interview is available from WFAE.
A stay-at-home order is in place. Medical equipment is hard to find. There’s an illness causing flu-like symptoms, and it spreads easily. The year is 1918.
Today’s coronavirus is not the first time North Carolina has experienced a pandemic. Just over 100 years ago the so-called Spanish flu ravaged the globe, killing roughly 13,000 in North Carolina, 675,000 in the United States and 50 million worldwide.
Today we consider the surprising parallels of the two pandemics, 100 years apart.
Charlotte’s population was 1/20th of what it is today, and technology has since evolved in unimaginable ways. But the similarities are striking: Movie theaters are closed but grocery stores remain open, children are home from school and boredom is creeping in. Some are anxious to reopen the economy, while health officials are cautious. In perhaps a harbinger of things to come, in 1919 some businesses sued the local board of health for keeping them from making a profit.
What do we have to learn from the 1918 influenza? How might it inform our response to COVID-19?
In 2018, Dr. Lauren Austin cautioned at the end of her dissertation: “We are at once both wholly unprepared and ideally situated for another influenza outbreak.”
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Dr. Lauren Austin, author of “Afraid to Breathe: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels”
