Eleni Zgourou, Ph.D. '18My experience at the School of Education has been wonderful! It is an intellectually stimulating environment which has offered me opportunities to meet and work with remarkable people, attend interesting classes, seminars and lectures, and make many new friends from diverse backgrounds.
Expanding Educational Knowledge
Will Zahran, a UNC School of Education doctoral student, was one of 12 graduate students from across disciplines on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus recognized as a 2024 Impact Award winner during an April 4 ceremony hosted by The Graduate School. The annual Impact Awards recognize graduate students and recent graduate…
Jasmyne Yeldell's interest in science started early in her life. It later sparked curiosity for applying a people-focused approach to make science education more accessible. As an undergraduate biology major at the University of Miami, Yeldell took courses in education, discovering a passion for the study of teaching and learning. The intimate class settings and…
Wonkyung "Won" Jang ('22 Ph.D.), an assistant professor in the department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, serves as principal investigator on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded project that aims to better understand how childhood peers influence the behavior and development of young children.
With the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year, many UNC School of Education undergraduates are returning to campus with summer experiences that will serve them inside the classroom and in their work to better the world through education. The same can be said of the School’s faculty members and the postdoctoral researchers and graduate students…