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
Shannon Reid, Ph.D., associate professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and affiliate faculty with the School of Data Science, works at…
UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Professor Roslyn Arlin Mickelson is one of just 18 exceptional education leaders and scholars elected as members…
A book by Amanda Pipkin, History Department chair and professor, has received the Society for the Study of Early Modern…
Earning probation or parole may be challenging, but having it revoked is surprisingly easy – clogging prison systems and derailing…
To support the first translation into English of an extensive 12th-century Persian poem that presents a Sufi spiritual journey, UNC…
UNC Charlotte researchers and the Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services have created the Gaston Water Map, a…
An article by UNC Charlotte researcher Andrea J. Pitts and colleagues published in the world’s leading medical journal details how…
UNC Charlotte Professor of History Mark Wilson is one of 28 exceptional scholars, journalists and authors chosen as members of…