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
Knowledge lives in research. As scholars pursue answers to big questions and researchers push the boundaries of what we already…
As part of the inaugural Charlotte Research Scholars program, students from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and other…
A special screening of the 90-minute director’s cut of the new film The Jesus Discovery will be shown from 2:30…
Sarah Haas, a Ph.D. student in Geography in the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, has received a substantial travel…
Jacob Huffman, a Geography & Earth Sciences major and Levine Scholar at UNC Charlotte, has been chosen for the Newman…
A world-renowned UNC Charlotte professor and historian has made a discovery in an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem that…
Nationally acclaimed artist and illustrator Barbara Higgins Bond will serve as the 2012 Africana Artist-in-Residence at UNC Charlotte. During her…
In December 2011, A Celebration of Faculty Achievement recognized College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty in two categories: those…