A Royster Fellow in The Graduate School, Maximilian Spiegel will graduate Sunday with a Ph.D. in communications and plans to pursue a career in academia based on his interdisciplinary study of popular music.
He spent seven semesters as a graduate instructor teaching an undergraduate course in popular music — an entry point to foster critical thinking and tools for understanding the world.
As a Tar Heel, Saskia Staimpel has expanded her interests in Black student activism through undergraduate research and a fellowship at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
After graduation, Staimpel plans to take a break before applying to graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in history and teach at the college level.
Graduating senior Hannah King grew up on a sheep farm in rural North Carolina, and when she got to Chapel Hill, she realized there was a high-profile role that she was perfectly qualified for: caring for Rameses XXII.
King plans to put her chemistry degree to work when she enrolls in veterinary school in the fall, but first, she's building up some more real-world agriculture expertise. After graduating, she'll start a new role at a large sheep farm in Wyoming, just in time for lambing season.
Nick Perlin still has his Carolina acceptance letter hanging on his bedroom wall at his home in Maryland. Two years later, the paper reminds him that the journey to Chapel Hill wasn’t an easy one.
The senior studying broadcast journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media will finish his Carolina journey this weekend and fulfill one of his childhood dreams as he graduates from UNC-Chapel Hill.