PhD Student

For Her Brother

March 21, 2023

Upon watching her brother grow up and struggle with cystic fibrosis, Rhianna Lee has dedicated her life to studying the disease.

A Crystal Ball for Chemistry

February 10, 2023

Jack Sundberg has created a software to help chemists uncover the best materials for their experiments — a potential game-changer for minimizing time and costs.

The Layers Beneath the Church

October 31, 2022

Michelle Freeman uncovers how clergy and laity revered saints in the fourth to sixth centuries to improve cultural understanding today.

RUNC: Julianne Davis

September 7, 2022

Julianne Davis studies how water, sediment, and the landscape influence one another.

Bringing Bivalves Back

August 18, 2022

Oysters have been dying off for the last century, and PhD candidate Mark Ciesielski wants to know why — and how to stop it.

RUNC: Samuel Akau

June 23, 2022

PhD student Samuel Akau engenders creative, participatory public policies.

Farnosh Mazandarani

May 11, 2022

Farnosh Mazandarani is a PhD student in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She studies popular pornographic media content in the U.S. and how trends in popularity coincide with societal and cultural events, advances, and movements.

Eduardo Tadafumi Sato

January 26, 2022

Eduardo Tadafumi Sato is a PhD candidate in the Department of Music within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies how music is defined across national borders and unpacks the social and political definitions of what makes music “national,” specifically within Brazil.