Research

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 […]

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.

The dig site at Mt. Zion It wasn’t a typical summer break for UNC Charlotte professors James Tabor and Shimon Gibson. Tabor, religious studies department chair, and Gibson, an archaeologist and adjunct religious studies professor, led nearly 50 students, alumni and other volunteers in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem in June and July 2009. During […]

Justice was dispensed 49-er style through a course in Investigative Law taught by former federal prosecutor Kathleen Nicolaides.  The Department of Criminal Justice, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, offers this course regularly.  Combining graduates and undergraduates alike, the course takes students through all phases of a criminal investigation, right up through the […]

Charlotte’s growing international profile now includes educational and cultural outreach to China, thanks to a partnership between Charlotte Sister Cities and UNC Charlotte.  A new international course at UNC Charlotte has allowed students to hurdle both thousands of miles and cultural boundaries to bring Charlotte closer to some of its global neighbors.  The innovative course […]