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
A research paper co-authored by UNC Charlotte student and faculty researchers has been named the most influential research pieces related…
UNC Charlotte researcher John Stogner is sounding the alarm about a drug that is 5 to 15 times stronger than…
UNC Charlotte meteorology students can now showcase their weather research online and in a new campus display unit in the…
UNC Charlotte researcher Margaret M. Quinlan and colleagues won a regional EMMY® on August 2 for The Courage of Creativity,…
Two of the three winners for best research posters at the third annual Summer Research Symposium are students in the…
UNC Charlotte religious studies undergraduate Kevin Caldwell was so inspired by his research experiences last summer, at the university’s Mt….
Ashley Williams knows no boundaries and shows no fear when asking big questions. Williams is one of the rare UNC…
People who live in food deserts in Charlotte struggle to find healthy fresh food. Lauren Whipp, who as an undergraduate…