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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 […]
The Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI), a partnership among the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Davidson College and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to support its iniatives to strengthen local public schools.
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.
William Dalen Rice said experiencing the generosity of people who have “less than nothing” inspires him to give more of himself. In honor of the exceptional ways in which Rice gives more of himself to serve others, he is the recipient of the 2009-10 Nish Jamgotch Jr. Humanitarian Student Award.
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 […]
Margaret Morgan was selected Friday night as the 2008 recipient of the highest teaching honor bestowed by UNC Charlotte – the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. Morgan, an associate professor of English, was chosen from a prestigious list of finalists for the honor, which was first awarded in 1968. The other nominees for […]
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 […]