Diversity Highlights
Featured Stories and Scholars
Global Grads: Sampreeti Bhattacharya
Sampreeti Bhattacharya is an international Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry. She came to UNC-Chapel Hill from India, where she completed her undergraduate studies.
Initiative for Minority Excellence: Charity Lackey
Charity Lackey, a 2017 alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill is an emerging scientist with clinical nursing background interested in understanding the relationship between the experience of stress and health outcomes. She also works at UNC Health as a registered nurse.
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS: Sally Cabrera
Sally Cabrera is a MPH student in the Gillings School of Global Public Health who is focused on community-based research to influence public health policy. With a lens of epidemiological methods, she seeks to enhance the relevance and use of research data that would influence policy and benefit communities.
MAGS: Bryan Rogers
Bryan Rogers is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP), where his research interests include bioinformatics, cancer biology, and immunology.
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS: Melissa Lam-McCarthy
Melissa Lam-McCarthy is a Master of Public Health student who is focused on health outcomes by way of food justice, supply chains, and access to food for people who live in both urban and rural communities.
Global Grads: Roberto Lagos Mondragon
Roberto Lagos Mondragon is an international student in the Department of Economics motivated by his upbringing in Honduras to better understand the interplay of prosperity and inequality in society.
Initiative for Minority Excellence: Ivonne Headley
Ivonne Headley is a master’s degree student in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she is studying nutrition. She credits La Familia with helping her build community as a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Global Grads: Dongbo Lu
Dongbo Lu is a graduate research assistant in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS: Stefani Baca-Atlas
Stefani Baca-Atlas is an interprofessional researcher who studies structural and historical risk factors that facilitate transgenerational trauma, and relationships between migration, victimization and exploitation, and mental, physical, and behavioral health outcomes. The Graduate School featured her volunteerism at Carolina in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2021. Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona Area of study: Ph.D.; School of Social Work What ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence: Margarett McBride
Margarett McBride is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research focuses on how neighborhood contexts shape parenting and youth well-being in Black families. The Graduate School featured her research in its spring 2021 Beyond These Walls event.