Seven Royster Society of Fellows doctoral graduate students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traveled to Germany for the 2022 Royster Global Conference, an initiative of The Graduate School designed to increase awareness and understanding of graduate education across international borders. The … Read more

Former refugee turns to higher education Ph.D. student Samuel Garang Akau fled his home in South Sudan as an eight-year-old boy during the Second Sudanese Civil War; now, he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in public policy. Many of his family members, including his parents … Read more

In 2014, Maximilian Spiegel began his graduate studies as an international student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Seven years later — following interdisciplinary study of popular music in the United States, a marriage, and becoming a parent — Spiegel will graduate in December with a Ph.D. prepared to shape interdisciplinary conversation in his field and beyond. As a … Read more

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. As a graduate student with global impact, we asked Bhattacharya about her take on International Education Week, a joint … Read more

The International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC), an initiative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has awarded a one-year, €50,000 grant (nearly $60,000) to support graduate students in mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Universität Hamburg as part of a global learning pilot … Read more

For the month of June, doctoral students from around the world came together for the fifth annual Royster Global conference, designed to increase an understanding of graduate education and foster connections internationally. The interdisciplinary conference is sponsored by the Royster Society of Fellows and is an initiative … Read more

Graeme Robertson, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor of political science whose research investigates dissent and protest within Russia and Ukraine, has been named The Graduate School’s Harold J. Glass USAF Faculty Mentor/Graduate Fellow Distinguished Term Professor. Robertson is the author of … Read more

Stella Zhizhi Li, a doctoral student in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected to serve as the Harold J. Glass USAF Graduate Fellow for academic year 2019-2020. Li was chosen for the fellowship … Read more

The third annual Royster Global Conference, to be held on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, will focus on one of the most ubiquitous aspects of life: borders.

Victoria Moy’s first interview with a Chinese American veteran took place when she was only eight years old. A third-grade classroom assignment about Ellis Island required that she interview an immigrant, and Moy interviewed her grandfather. “What he told me … Read more