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 Professor of English and American Studies Program Director Jeffrey Leak and colleagues have received a new American Association…
A significant proportion of Gaston County residents get their drinking water from private wells and other unregulated sources, particularly in…
A team including UNC Charlotte urban planning researcher Katherine Idziorek has received a nearly $2 million grant from the National…
UNC Charlotte health psychology doctoral student Jan Mooney is expanding her research in maternal health, with support from a National…
UNC Charlotte faculty member and alumna Dina Massachi has followed a long and winding road to build her extensive knowledge…
The latest U.S. News & World Report rankings place the Gerald G. Fox Master of Public Administration at #48 nationally,…
Akin Ogundiran, a Chancellor’s Professor and professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is the 2021 recipient of the First…
To most observers, the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, illustrates how extremist groups have increased in…