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Psychology Learning Community students came together on a hot, muggy Friday afternoon to fund raise for the UNC Charlotte Habitat for Humanity house, participating in a university-wide effort to raise $49,000 and build a house for a Habitat family.

The first Center City Literary Festival will pair authors with artists for a community creative event on Saturday, October 12, at UNC Charlotte’s Center City. The festival will offer a carnival-like program for children in the afternoon and a salon-like program for adults in the evening.  The children’s program will take place from noon to […]

Psychology professor Kimberly Buch is the 2013 recipient of the highest teaching honor bestowed by UNC Charlotte, the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.

In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site’s continuous use over millennia. But when an area has also been abandoned for intermittent periods, paradoxically there may be even richer finds uncovered, as […]

Danay Downing, a master’s student in anthropology and a graduate certificate student in cognitive science, used her Love of Learning fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to conduct primate research this summer.

Steven Rogelberg has been appointed the inaugural University Professor of UNC Charlotte. The title recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement in a professional field as well as demonstrated ability to excel at interdisciplinary research, teaching and service.

Kent Brintnall, associate professor of religious studies, is the 2013 recipient of the Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professorship for Teaching. His selection was announced during the annual University Convocation on Tuesday, Aug. 20.

A study of mortality and fertility patterns among seven species of wild apes and monkeys and their relatives, compared with similar data from hunter-gatherer humans, shows that menopause sets humans apart from other primates.

Full understanding of how natural resources relate to rebel forces in the developing world is crucial to U.S. national security policy, and a Department of Defense-funded project at UNC Charlotte is expected to provide greater insights into the impact of those resources.

Karen L. Cox, a UNC Charlotte history professor, received the 2013 Allen G. Noble Award for her book Destination Dixie: Tourism & Southern History. The Pioneer America Society offers the prize for the best edited book on material culture in North America. Destination Dixie includes thirteen essays that examine the way various historic sites throughout […]