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With the March 5, 2013 death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez after over a decade in power, the country and its people will face decisions about its future that observers say could lead to unrest and political struggles. UNC Charlotte’s Gregory Weeks has been providing expert analysis in his blog, “Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American […]

Faculty Featured: Sean McCloud, religious studies, wrote a column that was published on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 in Huffington Post Religion titled “Nones, Somes and the Combinativeness of American Religion.” Eric Heberlig, political science & public administration, was quoted on Friday, February 15, 2013 on WRAL.com in “What you might hear in the state of […]

Faculty Featured: Martin Klotz, biology, was featured on Monday, January 28, 2013 in the America Now television segment “Who has the most germs at work?” Justin Conrad, political science & public administration, was quoted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 in The Charlotte Observer Lake Norman News in “Foreign policy lectures held at UNCC.” Eddy Souffrant, […]

Faculty Featured: Peter Thorsheim, history, was quoted on Friday, December 28, 2012 in International Herald Tribune, the Global Edition of The New York Times, on “The Great Smog of China.” James Tabor, religious studies, was quoted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 in NBC News’ COSMIC LOG on “The year’s ancient mysteries (and missteps) put into […]

Faculty Featured James Tabor, religious studies, published “Christianity Before Paul” on Thursday, November 29, 2012, in Huffington Post. “America Aflame,” a book by David Goldfield, history, was among “Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Picks for the Omnivorous Reader” on NPR books on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Jonathan Marks, anthropology, wrote “My ancestors, myself” in Aeon, a digital […]

Faculty Featured Gregory Weeks, political science & public administration, was quoted in elEconomista on Monday, October 22, 2012, in “La población latina de EEUU, clave para elegir al nuevo presidente.” John Szmer, political science & public administration, was a panelist on on WFAE 90.7’s Charlotte Talks program on Monday, October 22, 2012, on the subject, […]

Karen L. Cox, associate professor in the History Department and author of the recently published book Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture (UNC Press, 2011), was featured in The New York Times on September 17, 2011. Her op-ed, “The South Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie,” intelligently discusses the intersection of reality […]

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni are making the news. From the local paper to Scientific American, read more about how CLAS members are contributing to the conversation on current issues.

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni are making the news. From the local paper to Scientific American, read more about how CLAS members are contributing to the conversation on current issues.

This is a report of College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni in the news for the months of July and August.