Outstanding graduate students are the key to the success of any research university.
The driving force behind graduate education is the desire to address business and community needs. The Graduate School, through its units and programs, delivers professional development, career preparation, and a sense of community that equips well-educated students with the leadership, cultural, and communication skills they need to succeed. Our Graduate Fellowships help provide the resources students need to maintain focus on their studies and progress toward their degree.
Please consider how you can support UNC Charlotte’s Graduate School in educating and training over 6,000 graduate students whose work in laboratories, private industry and national universities contributes to America’s global leadership. Today’s graduate student becomes tomorrow’s highly trained, skilled leader or employee.
Private donations are vital to support needed fellowships, research activities, professional development and educational opportunities for all graduate students across the UNC Charlotte campus.
Up for the Challenge?
Make a bigger impact by taking advantage of the following challenges!
- Calling all alumni and friends of the Graduate School! Dean Emeritus Tom Reynolds is matching all gifts to the Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning, dollar for dollar, up to $2,000. Double your impact now!
- Help us Shape What's Next for graduate fellowships and research at UNC Charlotte! 20 gifts for Graduate Education & Research Fellowships will unlock a generous $20,000 prize from a friend of the Graduate School. Give now!
- Interim associate provost and dean of the Graduate School Dr. Pinku Mukherjee needs your support, Niners! 24 gifts to the Graduate Student Excellence Fund will unlock a $2,400 reward from Dr. Mukherjee. Help us impact graduate student needs and programming like the Three-Minute Thesis and the Semester PhD Dinners with your gifts during NNG!
- Dean Emeritus Tom Reynolds and his wife Claudia thank you for your support of the Graduate School during Niner Nation Gives! In honor of your generosity, all supporters of the Graduate School will qualify for a beautiful quilt handmade by Claudia herself!
It Takes a Nation to Support The Graduate School
Looking to take part in #NinerNationGives? Here are two great ways to help support graduate education and students at UNC Charlotte:
The Graduate Student Excellence
The Graduate Student Excellence fund supports events designed to grow and celebrate graduate students. The Dean’s Doctoral Celebration is held each semester during the week leading up to commencement. The event recognizes the impressive work of graduating doctoral students and the support provided by their advisors. The fund also supports competitive events such as the Three Minute Thesis (3MT). 3MT is an academic research communication competition that challenges graduate students to succinctly summarize their research for a non-specialist audience in three minutes or less.
Graduate Education & Research Fellowship
Outstanding UNC Charlotte students are supported by generous donors to the Graduate School through a variety of fellowships. These fellowships award select doctoral and master’s students with funding for a period of their academic career. One of the most impactful fellowships that is awarded from this fund is the Summer Fellowship. It is a competitive, merit-based fellowship that provides funding to students for summer research. The Summer Fellowship has shown a direct impact on the students in their ability to reduce time to graduation. The fellowship encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.
Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning
The Thomas L. Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning is the heart of graduate education at UNC Charlotte and provides an intellectually stimulating and rich learning environment in which graduate students from across disciplines can build community and cultivate a sense of identification with the University as a whole. The Reynolds CGLL strives to fulfill its mission by providing a welcoming space set aside exclusively for graduate students, as well as through a wide range of programming developed, implemented and promoted specifically for and by graduate students.
Quilt hand-made by Claudia M. Reynolds. Support The Graduate School during Niner Nation Gives for your chance to take home this beautiful quilt!
