Diversity Highlights
Featured Stories and Scholars
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Claudia Ringel
Claudia Ringel is a dentist and served as an officer surgeon for the German military for almost 20 years. She says she thrives on new challenges that are outside of her comfort zone, such as when she decided to get her Ph.D. in a different medical field– eye surgery in glaucoma patients– or when she ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Ricky Pimentel
Ricky Pimentel is a first-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, a joint department of UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. Previously, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Colorado State University. He also worked at Children’s Hospital Colorado as a research coordinator to help improve walking ability in children with movement difficulties. He is passionate ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Eddie Yang
A former Fulbright scholar, Eddie Yang is a doctoral student in English and comparative literature. Drawing from British literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, he hopes to produce a project that examines how authors and readers have historically interacted – and experimented with – genre traditions. “I have no doubt that literature has the ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Ekiuwa Imariagbe
Ekiuwa Imariagbe is a Master of Public Health (MPH) student concentrating in health behavior. Originally from New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 2018 with a degree in health exercise science. She is a Gillings Ambassador and a Graduate Research Assistant for Diversity and Student Success in The Graduate School. What made you choose UNC-Chapel ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Giovanny Rincon
Giovanny Rincon, a master’s student in global studies, was in the Colombian Army Academy in 1999. He holds a master’s degree in political studies and has contributed to peace processes in Colombia. He has worked at the United Nations Development Programme, where he supported transitional justice projects, and recently served as the Prevention Component Coordinator ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Trusha Taneja
Dr. Trusha Taneja is a master of professional science (PSM) student in the Carolina Health Informatics Program. As a pharmacist, she is driven toward using technology to make the healthcare system safer, affordable and more efficient. What made you choose UNC-Chapel Hill when deciding on a program/place to study? In my search for a program best suited ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Daniel Reyes
Daniel Reyes, a master’s student in folklore, is a filmmaker with interests in documentary film, Latinx diaspora of the South and the diverse traditional music genres of Texas and Mexico, including Conjunto, Cumbia and Corridos. He recently co-produced Cantina, a short documentary about La Perla, one of the last Tejano bars in East Austin, Texas ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Rachel Wilbur
Rachel Wilbur is a doctoral student in anthropology. Her research interests lie in the impact of historical trauma and social determinants on the health of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native peoples. Her dissertation research seeks to elucidate and document the pathways through which a family history of Federal Indian Boarding School attendance may continue ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Anavir Shermon
Anavir Shermon is a doctoral student in the Strategy Ph.D. Program within Kenan-Flagler Business School. He spent his early years in Mumbai, India before moving to Toronto, Canada, and he completed his bachelor’s degree in industrial and operations engineering in 2017 at the University of Michigan. “I enjoy taking on big questions and systematically working ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Amy Glazier
Amy Glazier is a doctoral student in physics and astronomy. She studies potentially habitable planets in our galaxy using the Evryscope, the first gigapixel-scale all-sky telescope that images the entire visible sky every two minutes, designed and constructed by associate professor Nicholas Law’s group at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a 2019 NASA/North Carolina Space Grant ...