Research

UNC Charlotte has received $2 million from a new $5 million National Science Foundation grant to expand a regional partnership that supports low‑income, high‑achieving students pursuing STEM degrees. The award launches SPARC 6, a five‑institution collaboration designed to improve retention, transfer and graduation rates in biology, computer science and data science. The grant will fund […]

Ryan Grant, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychological science, has published a new study, “What’s your 5 to 9? Antecedents and outcomes of profiles of trajectories of daily recovery experiences across the evening,” in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the top journal in the field. Funded in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and […]

Two faculty from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences have been named to the 2026 class of Gambrell Faculty Fellows. The Gambrell Faculty Fellowship at UNC Charlotte is administered through the Charlotte Urban Institute with support through a grant from the Gambrell Foundation. This is the seventh cohort of Gambrell Fellows selected […]

Boyd H. Davis, Ph.D., professor emerita of English and gerontology, was recognized as one of Southminster’s inaugural 8 Over 80 honorees on Nov. 11. Davis continues to research and write in her retirement, contributing to important research on aging, dementia and caregiving. Southminster is a non-profit community providing innovative living solutions to aging across a […]

A new half-million dollar grant from the Wallace Foundation will help UNC Charlotte researchers study the outcomes of arts programs for youth in the Charlotte region. The project entitled “Youth Arts and Well-Being: Examining Individual and Community Impacts,” will be an in-depth study partnered with three Charlotte-based youth arts organizations over the next two and […]

UNC Charlotte recognized members of the 2025 Million Dollar Research Circle at a celebration on March 26 at the Bissell House. Three faculty from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences were honored for having at least one million dollars in external research funding: Johnson was also specially recognized for having more than […]

Exploring the Social Psychology of Relationships As Valentine’s Day approaches each year, Amy Canevello, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Science, gets an uptick in requests to lend her expertise to conversations on love and relationships. However, romantic relationships are just one piece of her social psychology research, which spans self image, social motivations […]

This week UNC Charlotte launched the Charlotte AI Institute with two centers from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences highlighted for making significant contributions to innovative research from the University. The Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, CAGIS, uses advanced space-time theories, methods, and technologies in Geographic Information Science (GIS) to address pressing multi-scale […]

Vaughn Schmutz, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, has been named a 2024-25 research fellow for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP). His research will utilize SNAAP data to examine the value of an arts education and the creative economy, with the topic of “Perceptions of Diversity, Social Justice, and Belonging Among Arts Graduates.” Schmutz is […]

“Election administration is easy, right? It’s just counting ballots.”  UNC Charlotte researchers from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences have just authored a new book entitled “A Republic If You Can Afford It: How Much Does It Cost to Administer Elections?,” which was published by the Cambridge University Press in the Elements […]