The Center for Graduate Life will host a virtual orientation session for new graduate students from 10-11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 3.
Through the orientation session, new students can get tips from current graduate students in a live Q&A session, plus have an opportunity to hear from Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds and Associate Dean
For details and to register, please visit the Center for Graduate Life’s Orientation website.
May 29 is the submission deadline for the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizing outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student.
The nomination form for the award and more info can be found on the Graduate School’s Awards Gateway. Supporting materials must be submitted by nominees to Aura Young (aura.young@uncc.edu) by 5:00 p.m. May 29, so allow your nominee time to assemble their packet.
The 2020 fields of competition are mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering; and social sciences.
Please circulate this reminder among your faculty.
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.
Congratulations to the 2020-2021 Graduate School Fellowship recipients:
Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Doctoral Fellowship
Andrew Dunphy, Ph.D. Biology
Hector Samani, Ph.D. Geography
Herschel and Cornelia Everett First-Year Graduate Fellowship ~ Doctoral
Hannah Luce, Ph.D. Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
Herschel and Cornelia Everett First-Year Graduate Fellowship ~ Master’s
Camille Gossett, M. Public Health
William F. Kennedy Graduate Fellowship
Lauren Roppolo Brazell, Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Fahad Mohammed Abdul, MS Electrical Engineering
Dr. Craig R. Brown Graduate Fellowship
Kelsey Smith, MA Counseling
DRReaM Graduate Fellowship
Thelma Achidi, MS Health Informatics and Analytics
Faye Jacques Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Jason Solomon, MS Mechanical Engineering
John Paul Lucas Jr. Scholarship for Educational Leadership
Abby Olive, MA English
Zonta Club Scholarship
Amanda Roberts, MA History
Claudia Reynolds Graduate Fellowship
April Vazquez, MA Spanish
Thomas L. Reynolds Graduate Student Research Award
Tengteng Cai, Ph.D. Public Policy
Morgan Chandler, Ph.D. Nanoscale Science
Abhishek Shibu, Ph.D. Nanoscale Science
Emilie Cobb, MA Anthropology
Mukulika Bose, Ph.D. Biology
Nitika, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, and Caroline Brinegar, MA, Geography, were recently designated UNC Charlotte’s most Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA).
The pair were recognized remotely as part of the University’s effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Each received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, which includes $1,000 and a plaque.
Read more at the Graduate School’s news page.
The Center for Graduate Life (CGL) will host live online workshops Mar. 31 that offer timely information on how to get the most from networking and interviewing online.
For more information and to register, please visit Networking in a Virtual World and Interviewing in a Virtual World.
The CGL also plans a Virtual Writing Workshop and a Virtual Coffee Hour. Visit the CGL for details.
The Center for Graduate Life is working to convert some workshops and all courses so that they can be delivered virtually. The CGL space is currently closed, but most services and all staff will be available via email, phone or WebEx, as appropriate. They have confirmed the following virtual services for UNC Charlotte graduate students with more to come:
The Center for Graduate Life (CGL) will host human resources consultant Ivanna Garibaldi Campbell for a presentation on “Working Smarter on Diverse Teams” Mar. 19.
The presentation is scheduled 12:30-1:45 p.m. at the CGL, Cone 268. To reserve a seat, visit the Center for Graduate Life.
This four-hour workshop gives students the opportunity to present solutions to campus, community or global problems. This is the first-stage of the annual Charlotte Venture Challenge. Teams will be given a list of problems and brainstorm on innovative ways to solve them.
ChangeMaker Kickoff: Breaking Ground
March 17, 202 4:00pm-9:00pm
Register to Attend
Drew Gadaire, MA, Psychology, was recognized as UNC Charlotte’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis recipient for 2019 and will compete for the regional award in March 2020 at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) annual meeting in Birmingham.
Read more in Recent News at the Graduate School website.
A new course on Leadership and a graduate certificate in Workplace Competencies will join the spring lineup at the Center for Graduate Life (CGL).
GRAD 6000/8000, Leadership Essentials, focuses on developing a personal leadership plan and executing it with power.
The CGL’s Graduate Certificate in Workplace Competencies, a 12-credit certificate program, kicks off in the spring.
More information on these and other career and professional development opportunities is available from the Center for Graduate Life.
For decades, the color blue has been a significant focus of research into improvements in digital display technology. The images we see on our laptop, phone and flat-screen TV today come from light-emitting materials comprising three colors – red, green and blue.
“The colors red and green are very easy to obtain but the color blue has been the bane of display technology,” said Abhishek Shibu, Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science whose presentation, “Let There Be ‘BLUE’ Light!,” took both the 1st Place and People’s Choice awards in this year’s 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. The issue, it appears, is that the material used to produce blue is not quite as cooperative as the others.
“My research is focused on creating a new class of blue-emitting materials to make these displays more energy efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly,” he said.
The Walter Research Group in the Department of Chemistry has created a library of crystals in the quest to improve the blue which, Shibu believes, “will be paradigm shifting candidates in the world of display technology.”
3MT® is a key element in preparing graduate students to communicate for success in their chosen career pursuits. Students who take on 3MT® also have an opportunity to participate in personal coaching and instruction on public presentations through the Center for Graduate Life. The CGL course, Communicating Your Research to a Non-Expert Audience, is tailored to help students create a favorable first impression on the job.
Taking 2nd Place in this year’s 3MT® was Nicole Stott, Ph.D. in Biology, Cellular and Molecular Biology for her presentation, “Lung Cancer Progression.”
Stott’s research assesses how the drug Metformin – commonly used to treat diabetes – can also reduce lung cancer tumor burden while maintaining skeletal muscle health. Stott’s work holds promise for improving the welfare and recovery time for lung cancer patients.
Mukulika Bose, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, received the 3rd Place award for her presentation on “Targeting Pancreatic Cancer with a Specific Antibody.”
Current treatment for pancreatic cancer often kills normal cells as well as the tumor. Bose’ research focuses on identifying biomarkers of cancerous cells to better target treatment.
For more information on 3MT®, visit the Center for Graduate Life.
Some of UNC Charlotte’s best graduate students will compete Nov. 15 before a panel of high profile judges for cash prizes and an opportunity to attend a regional 3MT® competition at the Conference of Southern Graduate School’s (CSGS) Annual Meeting in 2020.
The Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) program, offered by the Center for Graduate Life (CGL), challenges contestants to make their most compelling presentation of research to an audience that may not share the same expertise.
The event will be held Nov. 15 from 4-6 p.m. in the Halton Reading Room, J. Murrey Atkins Library.
2019 Finalists include:
Judges will include:
For more information, visit the Center for Graduate Life.
