Allison Barr
Teaching, Reading Concentration
Allison is a teacher in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. She took a leave from teaching last year to focus on her studies full-time. This year, she will be balancing her job as a teacher with her role as a student. Her research interests include best practices in literacy; ESL education and researching the achievement gaps for some groups in education. While happy to talk with any graduate student, Allison is particularly knowledgeable about UNC Charlotte
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Lalit Mandal
Electrical Engineering
Lalit is in his third year as a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include power electronics and renewable energy. As an international student, Lalit is particularly interested in cross-cultural communication and exchange. He looks forward to helping graduate students get involved on campus and develop their interpersonal skills.
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Adam Powell
Community Counseling
Adam is pursuing his master's degree
in Counseling. Specifically, he is interested in working with athletes and diverse populations. His research interests include understanding the needs of Latin-American populations. Adam brings past experience as a student leader to his role as a GLF. He looks forward to working with graduate students from a variety of disciplines
and is particularly interested in
students pursing professional degrees.
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Sonye Randolph
Public Policy
Sonye is in the second year of her doctoral degree in Public Policy. She comes to academia after a career as a project director and community liaison for community and housing coalitions. Sonye's research interests include urban policy issues, such as affordable housing, economic development and transportation equity issues. Her academic and professional experience will be useful to graduate students seeking to structure their studying. Sonye is particularly interested in helping doctoral students to understand the qualifying exam process.
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