Graduate School

Many students enter and leave college unprepared to navigate the basics of financial planning and debt management. The Division of Student Affairs and Graduate School are cosponsoring two workshops led by financial literacy advisor Bryan Ashton on Thursday, Oct. 22.

“Teaching Financial Literacy to Students” (for faculty and staff interested in incorporating financial education into their program) will be at 10 a.m. in the Student Union, Room 265.

“Financial Planning Workshop” (for students, open to all) is scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Student Union Movie Theater.

Meika Berlan, one of this year’s Graduate Life Fellows (GLF), believes her involvement in the program allows her to give back to UNC Charlotte.

“I chose to become a GLF so I could contribute to the university in a meaningful way,” said Berlan who is pursuing a Ph.D in Public Policy. She is among this year’s Graduate Life Fellows, a program in its eighth year on campus.  

Xinghua “Mindy” Shi, an assistant professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, is the latest beneficiary of funding from the SPRINT Program (São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration).

Three undergraduate students were honored for outstanding posters at the fourth annual Summer Research Symposium as part of the Charlotte Research Scholars program. More than 100 students competed in the competition presenting on a broad range of topics of scholarly inquiry.

Full-time employees who have earned a bachelor’s degree can apply easily for admission as a post-baccalaureate (non-degree) student without any standardized test, transcript or recommendation requirements. 

Alternatively, they could apply to a graduate certificate program, many of which do not require a standardized test.

Whether one wishes to apply to a graduate program, augment professional skills to advance his/her career or simply take a course for personal enrichment, there is still time to apply for the fall semester. 

Three military veterans will begin earning their master’s degrees at UNC Charlotte aided by substantial awards provided by the University’s Graduate School. The funding, called assistantships, will cover tuition and health insurance, plus a $12,000 annual stipend. Total value of each assistantship is roughly $36,000. The awards require the students to aid professors in their departments with research and teaching.

Doctoral student Hannah Peach and master’s candidate Jessica Morton are the 2015 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recipients, presented by the Graduate School and Center for Graduate Life.

The honor recognizes one doctoral and one master’s student who were nominated by their faculty supervisors for their work as teaching assistants. These separate awards allow UNC Charlotte to recognize the different types of tasks and demands placed upon graduate teaching assistants at their respective level.

The 15th annual Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) was held recently in the J. Murrey Atkins Library.  This student-run conference showcased current student research taking place at UNC Charlotte.  First-place winners received $800 each.

This year’s top paper and poster presentations were:

Physical Science Category
Paper

Three UNC Charlotte students have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) for 2015; this brings the total number of NSF GRF students produced by UNC Charlotte to 20.

Dena Shenk, professor of anthropology and graduate coordinator of the Gerontology Program, is the 2015 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Award; the honor is presented annually to a faculty member who best exemplifies de Silva’s commitment to graduate students.

Colleagues regard Shenk as an exceptional graduate mentor who has had an influential impact on the Gerontology Program.