Diversity Highlights
Featured Stories and Scholars
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
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
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
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
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
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
Diversity and Student Success’s Surviving and Thriving pop-up exhibits be featured around many areas of campus.
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
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.
Global Grads: Sinan Yorukoglu
Sinan Yorukoglu is an international student studying statistics and operation who has built community at Carolina through events on campus and meeting new people.