Graduate School

The University’s Even Higher Education campaign to increase awareness of UNC Charlotte’s graduate offerings has resulted in an interesting request from an HIV specialist in India.

Three master’s-level students are the winners of the 2013 Graduate Student Photo Competition. More than 50 entries were submitted for this annual contest sponsored by the Center for Graduate Life and the Graduate School. 
This year’s winners were Lewis Mackey, who is pursuing a master’s degree in architecture, in the category “Black and White.” Dana Pianowski, who is working toward a master’s degree in counseling, won the “Still Life” category. In the “Graduate Life” category, Manish Tapadiya, who is pursuing a master’s in engineering management, took top honors.

UNC Charlotte’s Graduate School has established its first Graduate School Advisory Board.  Members will serve primarily as advocates for graduate education and help promote public awareness of the incredible breadth and depth of graduate programs found at North Carolina’s Urban Research University, according to officials.

A vision for a new central park in Reid Park Neighborhood on Charlotte’s west side is moving closer to reality. It is based on work by UNC Charlotte’s Dylan McKnight, who is pursuing master’s degrees in urban design and community planning.
The Reid Park Neighborhood Association, in partnership with Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department, will seek community feedback on the vision from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 17, at Reid Park Academy, 4108 West Tyvola Road.

When Joe Howarth started working with UNC Charlotte’s Charlotte Action Research Project in Charlotte’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods in 2011, he kept hearing about the City of Charlotte’s Neighborhood Matching Grant program.

The Charlotte 49ers inaugural football season is underway, and Niner spirit is at an all-time high leading up to celebrations and activities planned for the Oct. 12 Homecoming game against UNC Pembroke.

Deeptak Verma, a 2012 graduate with a doctorate in bioinformatics and computational biology, is this year’s recipient of the Graduate School’s Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
 Verma was honored for the dissertation “Elucidating the Effects of Mutation and Evolutionary Divergence upon Protein Structure Quantitative Stability/Flexibility Relationships.”  During his time at UNC Charlotte, his research focused on the movement of atoms within a protein, and he co-authored nine published papers based on this research. 

UNC Charlotte’s Charlotte Research Scholars (CRS) program provides undergraduate students the training and experience to be successful in research, a critical component for graduate education. Sixty scholars have been selected for the research program’s second year. Starting Tuesday, May 28, they will conduct original research during a 10-week program in collaboration with a faculty member.

The 13th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium will be Saturday, March 23, in Atkins Library.  Participants will vie for more than $7,000 in cash prizes with awards presented in multiple research categories that honor the work of University graduate students. 

Yujie Lin, a doctoral student in computing and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, will defend “Exploratory Visualization of Graphs Based on Community Structure” at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Jing Yang is the dissertation advisor.