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
Heritage Daily has named the finds made this summer at UNC Charlotte’s Mount Zion dig site as among the world’s…
A vision for a new central park in Reid Park Neighborhood on Charlotte’s west side is moving closer to reality,…
In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds —…
A study of mortality and fertility patterns among seven species of wild apes and monkeys and their relatives, compared with…
Full understanding of how natural resources relate to rebel forces in the developing world is crucial to U.S. national security…
This summer’s excavation at the Mount Zion dig site in the city of Jerusalem has offered 18 UNC Charlotte students,…
The 60 undergraduate students from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and other colleges at UNC Charlotte who are…
Academics, policymakers, professionals, students and others concerned with sustainability will come together to consider social sustainability at the inaugural Integrated…