Cliff Huang weaves a tale that is truly rags to (academic) riches. It’s a success story that he is quick to attribute to family, friends and mentors – and one that led Huang to make a $1.5 million gift to Carolina.

Giovanny Rincon received funding from the Stephens Family Fund for Graduate Student Excellence to purchase a new laptop, statistics software and books to work on his Ph.D. in public policy at Carolina.

In 2021, Oskar Czendze, a Ph.D. candidate in history, received an award from the Frances Carol Eizenstat Travel Fund to conduct research in Poland and Ukraine.

Lindsay Guzowski (M.A. ’04) learned early on in her graduate program at UNC that she enjoyed applying thought processes and research methods from sociology to real-world economic problems and businesses.

A $25 million bequest to the College of Arts and Sciences from an anonymous donor ensures a bright future for graduate students. This transformative commitment, when realized, will support more than 200 graduate students annually.