Research
Research in CHESS
CHESS embraces research as a major activity at all levels, including undergraduate research experiences, graduate work, and faculty scholarship. In keeping with this focus, the college’s research activities are diverse, connected to the world and its concerns, and contribute significantly to UNC Charlotte’s status as a top-tier research university.
Our award-winning faculty create a collaborative culture with researchers from across the UNC Charlotte campus and around the world to discover new ways of thinking and to deliver solutions in areas of greatest need. Students benefit from taking classes and conducting research with innovative, dynamic faculty members who mentor and challenge students to stretch themselves. Students gain the confidence to take risks and learn to act compassionately by working alongside their professors and fellow students in the classroom, in research settings, and in the broader community.
Interdisciplinary Research Highlights in CHESS
Students and faculty in CHESS learn from and examine the physical world around us, traveling for field research to dig into the past while using advanced technologies to build models for the future.
Watch a video about the Charlotte Heat Mappers.
Researchers in CHESS explore the things that make us human and define the impacts of emerging technologies on society.
Watch a video about the Center for Humane AI Studies.
From classrooms to labs, text to artifacts, and qualitative to big data, CHESS analyzes language, society, policy, cultures and populations to learn from and inform communities.
Read more about CHESS research into the cost of elections and the impact on voting after Helene.
CHESS Research News
Two faculty from the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences have been named to the 2026 class of…
Boyd H. Davis, Ph.D., professor emerita of English and gerontology, was recognized as one of Southminster’s inaugural 8 Over 80…
A new half-million dollar grant from the Wallace Foundation will help UNC Charlotte researchers study the outcomes of arts programs…
UNC Charlotte recognized members of the 2025 Million Dollar Research Circle at a celebration on March 26 at the Bissell…
Exploring the Social Psychology of Relationships As Valentine’s Day approaches each year, Amy Canevello, Ph.D., professor in the Department of…
This week UNC Charlotte launched the Charlotte AI Institute with two centers from the College of Humanities & Earth and…
Vaughn Schmutz, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, has been named a 2024-25 research fellow for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project…
“Election administration is easy, right? It’s just counting ballots.” UNC Charlotte researchers from the College of Humanities & Earth and…