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Academics

Graduate School announces Impact Award and Horizon Award winners

The awards recognize graduate students' powerful discoveries that contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Graduate School has awarded 22 graduate students in programs throughout the University with the 2018 Impact Awards and Horizon Awards. The awards celebrate the graduate students’ powerful discoveries that contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina.

The Graduate School announced 17 Impact Award and five Horizon Award winners on March 19. The recipients will be recognized on April 5 at the 20th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration.

The Impact Award recognizes discoveries with a direct impact on our state in the present time. The Horizon Award, created in 2017, recognizes discoveries with future potential to benefit North Carolina. Doctoral and master’s students, working in close collaboration with their faculty mentors, pursue promising new ideas. They then apply their new knowledge to improving human health, strengthening communities and creating greater understanding of our world’s biggest challenges.

View all of the 2018 Horizon and Impact Award winners and their projects.