College News
The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, together with ESRI – a leading geographic information systems (GIS) company, is sponsoring its annual GIS Day on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in the McEniry lobby from noon to 2 p.m. Graduate students will present their research right after that, at 2 p.m. In anticipation of GIS Day, […]
Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) and its partners will present “Exploding Canons: The Changing Landscapes of Political Conventions” on Friday, Oct. 14, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the UNC Charlotte Center City Campus in Uptown Charlotte. With this installment of its multidisciplinary speakers series, CTI invites the Charlotte community to take an unconventional look at […]
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm and its aftermath resulted in the most severe, damaging and costly natural disaster in the nation’s history — as evidenced by the size of the region affected, the loss of life, the extensive destruction of property and the thousands displaced.
Sociology professor Roslyn Mickelson is the 2011 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal. The prestigious award, presented by First Citizens Bank and UNC Charlotte, honors faculty scholarship and intellectual inquiry.
Addison Hodge, a senior in international studies, spent a month in the summer of 2010 with his fellow Model United Nations teammates, living and working at a Haitian orphanage. He recounts his experience here and explains how the trip changed his life.
The inclination to tell a story, to record our history and somehow make sense of our lives through sharing, is as ancient as civilization itself. In that great tradition, the faculty of UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences publish dozens of books annually, on subjects ranging from poetry to Pinochet.
Five College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines will receive Bonnie Cone Fellowships from UNC Charlotte ADVANCE to support their scholarship and leadership.
Faculty authors and grant recipients from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) were recognized for their scholarly achievements at a reception Dec. 8. CLAS Dean Nancy Gutierrez expressed her appreciation for the efforts of the faculty, whom she called the knowledge leaders in the University community. For 2010, CLAS faculty authored or edited […]
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.