Updates

UNC Charlotte Africana Studies associate professor Oscar de la Torre’s first book continues to sweep book prize awards, now recognized with two best book prizes and one honorable mention award.

Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte, has received a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship from the Institute of International Education to share his expertise with students and faculty in Africa.

Mark West, who has devoted his 35-year career at UNC Charlotte to advancing children’s literacy and children’s literature, is a recipient of the Governor James E. Holshouser Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service.

The impact of transition for a transgender individual extends far beyond the self to their families, friends, colleagues and community. UNC Charlotte’s Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative will host a community conversation on Tuesday, April 9, that explores transgender lives in the context of family, friends and communities.

Akin Ogundiran, professor and chair of the Africana Studies Department, was inducted as a Visiting Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. This honor recognizes his preeminent status as a researcher and scholar of emergent societies and social complexity in Yorubaland, Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora during the past 700 years.

Rafael Y. Lewis, the site field director for UNC Charlotte’s Mount Zion dig in Jerusalem, will present a talk on Monday, Oct. 31 on the topic of “On the Highway to Hell: History, Archaeology and the Crusader Defeat at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.”

Lawrence Blydenburgh of Criminal Justice and Criminology is one of three finalists for the College’s Outstanding Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty Member Award. Blydenburgh began teaching at UNC Charlotte in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in 2004.

UNC Charlotte researcher Margaret M. Quinlan has teamed with WOUB Center for Public Media and received a regional Emmy nomination for the documentary series, The Courage of Creativity. The series showcases the role of artists in fostering storytelling and well-being in health-related contexts.

Faculty Featured: Richard Tedeschi, psychology, was quoted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in BBC News, US & Canada, in “Boston marathon bombings: Life after limb loss.” Jonathan Marks, anthropology, was quoted on Monday, April 15, 2013, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, in “A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic “Exile.”

Faculty Featured: David Goldfield, history, was quoted on Friday, March 29, 2013, in The Charlotte Observer, in “Confederate flag at old NC Capitol coming down.” Greg Gbur, physics, was a guest on Friday, March 29, 2013, on News14 to discuss science and the UNC Charlotte Science and Technology Expo. Todd Steck, biology, was a panelist […]