Diversity Highlights
Featured Stories and Scholars
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Parag Saikia
Parag Jyoti Saikia is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recipient of the Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship awarded by The Graduate School. He hails from Assam, a state in the Northeastern region of India. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Ilich Mejia
Ilich Mejía is a global grad from La Ceiba, Honduras. Ilich is a first-year graduate student pursuing a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication at the School of Media and Journalism. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a program/place to study? I decided to come to UNC because its School of Media and Journalism has an ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Alexis Georgeson
Alexis Georgeson is a third year PhD student studying Quantitative Psychology. Her research focuses on psychometrics, longitudinal design, and substance use in adolescents. What made you pursue a graduate degree? Like most psychology majors, I initially wanted to be a clinical psychologist. At the time, I had no idea what a PhD was, but within my first ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Ericka & Matt Case
Ericka Case is a first-year at UNC and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Public Health Leadership Program, class of 2020. She served in the Navy Nurse Corps and held jobs as an oncology/ hematology nurse, led a medical readiness department, and served as a clinic manager in primary care. Matt Case is also a ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Travis Wilson
Travis is a first year graduate student in the Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program and his research includes determining social interactions between marine bacteria by investigating the competitive phenotypes of microbes present in salt marsh ecosystems. Previously, he served for seven years as an aircraft turbine engine mechanic and paratrooper in the U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne Division. What ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Hongyi Dong
Hongyi Dong is a second-year in the School of Information and Library Science, pursuing a MS in Information Science. He is a TCK (Third-Culture Kid) born in one country, but raised in another. He loves to learn new languages- he has a minor degree in Spanish, taught himself some Japanese, and is currently wrestling with ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan is from Hong Kong and is currently doing a PhD in Political Science. He completed his undergraduate degree in Hong Kong, then an MSc at the Leiden University (in the Netherlands) before coming here coming to UNC. What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree? I was quite involved in Hong Kong’s various social ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Rose and Nathan Horswill
Nathan Horswill started the fall semester in the first year of a Masters in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Operations Research, with a focus on Machine Learning. Nathan just got out of the Army in May after having served 8 years as a Field Artillery Officer, Most recently as a Company Commander in Fort Bliss Texas. Rose is ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Samantha Luu
Samantha is a second-year Masters of Public Health Student in the department of Health Behavior. She is a valuable member of the Health Behavior Student Services team and her research focuses on Peer Support. During her free time, Samantha enjoys volunteering for the Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) and their subgroup, Classrooms to Community (C2C) as ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – LaVoya Woods-Dionne
LaVoya Woods-Dionne is in her second year of the MSW program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She has worked as an intern with refugees, adults and children who’ve experienced the trauma of war. In her military life she served four years in the U.S. Air Force as ...