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Featured Stories and Scholars
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Stephanie Betancur
Stephanie Betancur, a doctoral student in nursing, was born in Medellin, Colombia. She is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health-funded T32 Predoctoral Training Grant and is an inpatient registered nurse in the UNC Bone Marrow Transplant unit. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing with honors from UNC-Chapel Hill and was selected for ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Arik Tashie
Arik Tashie, a doctoral student in geological sciences, studies how climate change and landscape modification can alter the flow of water resources. His work has implications for predicting floods and determining water policy. Tashie served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2006 to 2008. “My military background gave me the tools and ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Minoo Emami
Minoo Emami is a master of fine arts student within studio art. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree and a certificate in graphic design from Tufts University. Emami’s work incorporates her experiences of growing up in Tehran, Iran, during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). She specializes in drawings, sculpture, paintings, and photography, and has ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Criss Guy
Criss Guy is a second-year master’s student in information science and a Carolina Academic Library Associate (CALA) for the University Libraries. In his CALA role, he supports research and instruction efforts for the Undergraduate Library and Wilson Special Collections Library. He also serves as a leadership liaison for the Community Workshop Series, an organization that ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Honoreé Brewton
Honoreé Brewton is a fourth-year doctoral student within the Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Program, and her research focuses on discoveries that could lead to new treatments for alcohol use disorders. Her career plans include a research position in industry. “I also hope to show other Black youth the opportunities that are available in science,” she ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Austin Vo
Austin H. Vo is a doctoral student in sociology. He is from Austin, Texas, and earned his bachelor’s degree in statistics from Williams College in 2018. He is interested in the diverse set of tools offered by research methodology and uses a sociological perspective to ask questions about how immigrants are politicized. He enjoys running ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar
Justin Tucker is a master’s student in education. He grew up in Queens and Gordon Heights, N.Y., and received his master’s degree in higher education from Stony Brook University, where his academic work focused on strategies to improve black male graduation and retention rates. “I am very passionate about education as a vehicle for change ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Gustavo Mahn
Gustavo Mahn is a third-year resident in operative dentistry within the UNC Adams School of Dentistry. He was born and raised in Chile, and earned his DDS degree and received his Prosthodontics Specialty Certificate from the University of Chile. After graduation, he had a private dental practice and taught part-time in Chile before moving to ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Metika Ngbokoli
Metika Ngbokoli is a third-year doctoral student in the Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Program. “In addition to my research, I am passionate about science outreach and want to help increase the visibility of women of color in STEM.” She serves as a Graduate Student Fellow with the Center for Faculty Excellence and is co-chair of ...
Initiative for Minority Excellence Featured Scholar – Terika McCall
Terika McCall is a Ph.D. candidate in the Carolina Health Informatics Program. She earned her master of public health degree in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2010, and her master of business administration degree in management from Wake Forest University in 2016. She is a National ...