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Diversity Highlights

Featured Stories and Scholars

 

  • #GDTBATH: Rebekah Lim

    #GDTBATH: Rebekah Lim

    Rebekah Lim, a master of public health student, is using her time with the Diversity and Student Success program to build a stronger network and community for graduate students who identify as Asian Pacific Islander Desi American.

  • Celebrating Black History Month—Xavier Bonner

    Celebrating Black History Month—Xavier Bonner

    Xavier Bonner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine. 

  • Celebrating Black History Month—JeMya McClendon

    Celebrating Black History Month—JeMya McClendon

    JeMya McClendon is a master’s degree student who is studying nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

  • Surviving and Thriving digital exhibit

    Surviving and Thriving digital exhibit

    Throughout the fall semester, The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success program hosted several pop-up exhibits in departments and units to explore anonymous stories from graduate students of color through interactive storyboards. Now the pop-up exhibit is available in a digital format.

  • Identity and experience—from the military to a master’s degree

    Identity and experience—from the military to a master’s degree

    One of graduate student Dailihana Alfonseca’s only memories with her father include the feeling of how small her hands felt in his. As a young girl in Puerto Rico, her father’s murder decades ago—fraught with complexities of drug and identity issues—led to an adolescence of wandering, migration, and instability.  “I write about it, and I work ...

  • “Women who looked like me”—The Graduate School’s Ronice Johnson-Guy

    “Women who looked like me”—The Graduate School’s Ronice Johnson-Guy

    Ronice Johnson-Guy, a first-generation undergraduate and graduate student, recently joined The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success program.

  • Marking Latinx Heritage Month among graduate and professional students at UNC-Chapel Hill

    Marking Latinx Heritage Month among graduate and professional students at UNC-Chapel Hill

    As a high school student, Ana Gutierrez Ramirez wanted to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but immigration policies prevented her from leaving Texas, where her family relocated after leaving her native Venezuela. Now, Gutierrez Ramirez is pursuing her second year of study at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and leading the Latine Graduate ...

  • Surviving and thriving—the graduate student experience

    Surviving and thriving—the graduate student experience

    Diversity and Student Success’s Surviving and Thriving pop-up exhibits be featured around many areas of campus.

  • Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS: Lisa Pham

    Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS: Lisa Pham

    First-generation graduate student Lisa Pham is motivated to pursue graduate school based on her family’s love of food and the connections that can come from sharing a meal.

  • Initiative for Minority Excellence: DeeAnn Spicer

    Initiative for Minority Excellence: DeeAnn Spicer

    Ph.D. student DeeAnn Spicer has attended Writing Wednesdays with our Initiative for Minority Excellence—she says they’ve helped her feel like part of a community while in graduate school.