College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

UNC Charlotte student Dylan McKnight designs a park for the Reid Park Neighborhood as his capstone project.

Drs. Mary Harper and Herman Thomas arrived at UNC Charlotte in the 1970s the winds of social and political change still lingered in the air.

The Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP) forges partnerships between the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and marginalized communities in Charlotte.

The TweetChina project explores through a Big Data approach how China is discussed and represented on Twitter

The First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal Award given each year to a faculty member at the top of his or her field. This year’s dual recipients are Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun in the psychology department, based on their work together in the area of post traumatic recovery.

Jeffrey B. Leak’s newly published book, Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas, has won praise from a noted national writer for “shining a piercing light” on the elusive Dumas, who has remained a mystery even to fans of his work.

Kimberly Buch from the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is among the 17 recipients of the UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence.

The U.S Embassy to Belgium and the U.S Mission to the European Union celebrated Black History Month in Brussels by hosting a lively panel discussion including panelist David Goldfield, the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at UNC Charlotte. Joining him on the panel were Prof. Maboula Soumahoro of the University of Tours (France), and […]

Eight UNC Charlotte and Davidson College faculty – including four from CLAS – will guide Charlotte Teachers Institute’s 2014 seminar season. Fifty-four Charlotte-Mecklenburg teachers also serve as leaders for CTI, adding to the inclusive and creative focus that distinguishes the unique professional development initiative.

A UNC Charlotte graduate student team has moved one step closer to a $1 million prize in funding to launch a sustainable social venture, in the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social good. The Hult Prize Foundation recently announced that the UNC Charlotte team had advanced to the regional finals of the fifth annual Hult Prize.