College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

The inclination to tell a story, to record our history and somehow make sense of our lives through sharing, is as ancient as civilization itself. In that great tradition, the faculty of UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences publish dozens of books annually, on subjects ranging from poetry to Pinochet.

Five College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines will receive Bonnie Cone Fellowships from UNC Charlotte ADVANCE to support their scholarship and leadership.

Faculty authors and grant recipients from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) were recognized for their scholarly achievements at a reception Dec. 8. CLAS Dean Nancy Gutierrez expressed her appreciation for the efforts of the faculty, whom she called the knowledge leaders in the University community. For 2010, CLAS faculty authored or edited […]

Charlotte, N.C., which has experienced dynamic urban growth without losing all the pastoral charms of the North Carolina piedmont, may offer scientists an ideal living laboratory to study what makes a “human-dominated ecosystem” tick. Researchers at UNC Charlotte, led by Ross Meentemeyer, Geography and Earth Sciences, have been awarded $300,000 by NSF’s Urban Long-Term Research […]

Heather Smith and Bill Graves, UNC Charlotte geography professors and editors of the new book “Charlotte, N.C.: The Global Evolution of a New South City,” will be featured Nov. 17 in the final installment of the popular series “Community Conversations: Changing Times…Changing Minds,” which will focus on Charlotte’s evolution.

The Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI), a partnership among the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Davidson College and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to support its iniatives to strengthen local public schools.

Janni Sorensen, geography and earth sciences, along with Jose Gamez, architecture, received a $25,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation as an outgrowth of their work with the Windy Ridge neighborhood, a northwest Charlotte community.

This is a report of College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni in the news for the months of July and August.

Faculty Expertise James Tabor, religious studies, was featured in The New Yorker on the “Historical Jesus” by Adam Gopnik. (May 24) Susan K. Johnson and Paula Goolkasian, psychology, were featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education in the article “Surprising speed of Om.” The article references their paper about “Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of […]

An article from the summer 2010 issue of Exchange magazine It is 6 p.m. on a chilly Thursday night in October, and after finishing their pizza, students are gathered around a worktable, playing with what looks to be an erector set. The group, chattering happily and sharing pieces to help create the best structure, is […]