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
UNC Charlotte researcher Akin Ogundiran has been named a Fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year,…
Graduate students in Karen L. Cox’s heritage tourism class traveled to Charleston in March to experience how tourism companies and…
Vivian Lord opened her mail one winter day 16 years ago, and found a letter from an inmate describing his…
A new book from UNC Charlotte educators and researchers examines the desegregation and resegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools over the past…
Sustainability is an international concern, and for one UNC Charlotte professor the challenge is to bring new understanding to how…
The PBS film “Italy’s Mystery Mountains” showcases UNC Charlotte geography and earth sciences faculty and student research into the age…
For his work in helping to revitalize a challenged Charlotte neighborhood through urban design and planning, Dylan McKnight, a UNC…
Meteorology student Ricky Matthews seeks to understand why people heed or ignore warnings and forecasts, making it his goal to…