Celebrating Excellence: Graduate Students Honored at Annual Recognition Event

Several of the Department’s graduate students are being honored at this year’s Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration.

We echo Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts sentiments that “Our University benefits immeasurably from our graduate students-they guide our undergraduates, work alongside our world-class faculty and dedicated staff, and contribute to lifechanging research. And they do so while balancing professional and personal demands. Thank you, graduate students, on behalf of the University, for all the ways that you serve the Carolina community and inspire others toward excellence.”

Department graduate students being honored include:

• Kirsten Giesbrecht, for her performance in the Three Minute Thesis Competition,
• Madelyne Brown, for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,
• Olivia Chandrasekhar, for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,
• Kirsten Giesbrecht, for being awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship,
• Kaitlyn Hohmeier, for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,
• Karen Medlin, for being awarded a Department of Energy Graduate Research Fellowship from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program,
• David Passey, for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

For more on Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration, see the full announcement. Congratulations everyone!