Research

UNC Charlotte researcher Akin Ogundiran has been named a Fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year, in one of the most competitive fellowship programs in the world. He will join 36 other distinguished scholars from 32 institutions across the United States and eight foreign countries working on a wide array of projects.

Graduate students in Karen L. Cox’s heritage tourism class traveled to Charleston in March to experience how tourism companies and historic sites portray the city’s heritage, gaining deeper insight into life in Charleston during the colonial era and beyond.

Vivian Lord opened her mail one winter day 16 years ago, and found a letter from an inmate describing his unsuccessful attempt to force police officers to shoot and kill him. What Lord learned from him, and what she has uncovered in her subsequent years of pioneering research, has contributed significantly to the understanding of the phenomenon called Suicide by Cop.

A new book from UNC Charlotte educators and researchers examines the desegregation and resegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools over the past 40 years, putting education reform in a political and economic context.

Sustainability is an international concern, and for one UNC Charlotte professor the challenge is to bring new understanding to how Nigerians can view sacred groves as secular green spaces, through in-depth research with global implications.

The PBS film “Italy’s Mystery Mountains” showcases UNC Charlotte geography and earth sciences faculty and student research into the age of river terraces. This research delves into landscape evolution, providing meaningful information on the impact of external forcing, such as climate.

For his work in helping to revitalize a challenged Charlotte neighborhood through urban design and planning, Dylan McKnight, a UNC Charlotte urban design and community planning graduate, received a top honor.

Meteorology student Ricky Matthews seeks to understand why people heed or ignore warnings and forecasts, making it his goal to improve the warning and information dissemination process so that lives can be saved during severe weather.

A research paper co-authored by UNC Charlotte student and faculty researchers has been named the most influential research pieces related to health care disparities for 2014, according to the Culture of Health Reader Poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, considered the largest philanthropic efforts devoted to public health.

UNC Charlotte researcher John Stogner is sounding the alarm about a drug that is 5 to 15 times stronger than heroin — and escapes detection on drug screens unless doctors specifically look for it.