College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Beginning a research project can feel like diving into a vast ocean of information. Students often spend untold hours swimming through a broad research topic, as they seek to address issues that perplex and warrant an answer.

People think of wind as an energy source with few limits, offering an unending power source with distinct capacity advantages over sources that deplete, such as fossil fuel. Yet, new research suggests that the power capacity of large-scale wind farms may have been significantly overestimated.

A family reunion, a best friend’s wedding, a moment with a loved one caught on camera all provide examples of typical photographs that fill up albums and social media sites. Pinterest is even a site dedicated entirely to sharing images that tell stories about people’s lives.

Guests can experience the rich world of classic and contemporary films from France, Italy, South Korea, Russia and Spain at UNC Charlotte’s International Film Series and Tournées Festival, Wednesday, March 13 through Monday, March 25.

Highly-regarded Rice University scholar April DeConick will present “The Ancient New Age: How Gnostic Spirituality Revolutionized Religion in Antiquity” on Monday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall, for the 29th Annual Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture in Religious Studies.

Nigerian master woodcarver, structure designer, folklorist and environmental activist Kasali Akangbe Ogun is serving as the 2013 Africana Artist-in-Residence at UNC Charlotte.

It will be “hats off” to Dr. Seuss at the Seuss-a-Thon event co-sponsored by UNC Charlotte’s English Department and Park Road Books at the bookstore on Saturday, March 2 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Faculty Featured: Sean McCloud, religious studies, wrote a column that was published on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 in Huffington Post Religion titled “Nones, Somes and the Combinativeness of American Religion.” Eric Heberlig, political science & public administration, was quoted on Friday, February 15, 2013 on WRAL.com in “What you might hear in the state of […]

Faculty Featured: Martin Klotz, biology, was featured on Monday, January 28, 2013 in the America Now television segment “Who has the most germs at work?” Justin Conrad, political science & public administration, was quoted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 in The Charlotte Observer Lake Norman News in “Foreign policy lectures held at UNCC.” Eddy Souffrant, […]

The New Books Network is featuring a podcast with Richard W. Leeman, communication studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and his co-editor, Bernard Duffy, about their book The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches.