College News
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will add the position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Diversity to the Dean’s Office in 2015-16. Shawn Long, currently chair of the Department of Communication Studies, will assume this role on July 1.
Footage of an immersive digital art installation designed by UNC Charlotte writing instructor Heather Marcelle Crickenberger will be featured for the coming year in a video that greets N.C. State University Hunt Library visitors.
Students from UNC Charlotte’s programs in technical professional writing and English majors with a concentration in language and digital technology will showcase their work on Tuesday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the foyer of the Fretwell Building.
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.
UNC Charlotte students will present both live and recorded scenes from a 2014 London production of Shakespeare’s Pericles and Cervantes’ The Sultan’s Queen, as part of an extensive experience that involved a visit by a British team to UNC Charlotte, a study abroad experience last summer and this culminating performance.
UNC Charlotte writing faculty are working with supporters of military veterans to provide a welcoming place for the veterans and their families to write, as a way of processing their experiences. The next meeting of the Charlotte Veterans Writing Group will be Saturday, May 2 at Charlotte Bridge Home, 2200 E 7th Street.
UNC Charlotte historian Aaron Shapiro has received The Midwestern History Association’s annual Jon Gjerde Prize for the best book on a Midwestern history topic for his book “The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest.”
UNC Charlotte journalism students won a 2014 Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the website created from student work for the 2014 course, “Covering Poverty in America.”
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.
Dena Shenk, professor of anthropology and graduate coordinator of the Gerontology Program, is the 2015 recipient of UNC Charlotte’s Harshini V. de Silva Award; the honor is presented annually to a faculty member who best exemplifies de Silva’s commitment to graduate students.
Fourteen UNC Charlotte students experienced London and Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the Shakespeare in England spring study abroad course, exploring places and events that shaped the playwright’s personal and professional life.
Dena Shenk, graduate director of UNC Charlotte’s Gerontology Program and professor of anthropology, has received the Mildred Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.