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Celebrating UNC Charlotte’s Rising Stars 4 Niners named 40 Under 40 Honorees The Charlotte Business Journal’s annual “40 Under 40 Awards” spotlight the region’s most promising young professionals who are making significant impacts in their fields and communities. This year, four exceptional individuals from the UNC Charlotte community were recognized for achievements exemplifying leadership, innovation […]

The members of UNC Charlotte’s spring graduating class are embracing the future as they kick-start careers, head to graduate school, broaden their horizons through travel or moving to a new city, and adventurously ask, “What’s next?”

The Great Cellular Heist: H5N1 Adapts for a Human Host New research offers implications for a vaccine to combat avian flu By Anna Holt A 3-D model of two proteins, Polymerase Basic 2 (in orange) and Mitochondrial Antiviral Signaling (in grey), interacting. PB2 is a part of the Influenza virus, while MAVS is a protein […]

Hey, Siri, did my dad take his medicine? UNC Charlotte AI tech breaks ground, bridges oceans in real-time health care analysis By Schaefer Edwards Photos by Amy Hart Children depend on their parents to keep them out of harm’s way. Fast forward a few decades; as parents age, adult children often feel the responsibility to […]

Social Work Meets Salsa: How Miriam Espaillat Is Spicing Up Charlotte’s Culinary Scene Miriam Espaillat ’13 merges social work and business at Sabor Latin Street Grill, creating opportunities — one empanada at a time. By Suzanne Leger Photos by Osvaldo Hernandez From Empanadas to Entrepreneurship Miriam Espaillat ’13 understands that food transcends mere sustenance; it embodies […]

“Timelines: Past Perspectives. Future Insights” UNC Charlotte takes center stage at Charlotte SHOUT! with a full-day experience designed to inspire, inform and ignite. “hello” As part of Charlotte SHOUT!, and in partnership with Charlotte Ideas Festival, UNC Charlotte presents “Timelines: Past Perspectives. Future Insights.” This full-day signature event on Saturday, April 5, at The Dubois […]

Data-driven edge: Sports analytics at Charlotte By: Phillip Brown Photo by: kat Lawrence March Madness — the pinnacle of college basketball. As teams vie for the national championship throughout the month, fans frenziedly fill out their NCAA brackets — some for fun, others for perfectly predicted picks. Underscoring it all — statistics. Or more precisely, […]

From Spreadsheets to Dog Treats: How a Niner Swapped Data for Dogs Story by Suzanne Leger Photography by Myra Solana and Zacch Estrada-Petersen For Zacch Estrada-Petersen ’05, dogs were always a source of joy. But turning that love into a career? That was never the plan. Yet here he is—running a thriving dog training business, […]

AI Meets Immunology: Reimagining Personalized Medicine Charlotte researchers develop Artificial Intelligence-Cell to design precision interventions By Anna Holt Photography by Kat Lawrence Imagine that health care professionals could predict how a patient’s immune system would respond to a treatment before the medicine ever reached the clinic. Envision vaccines with fewer side effects or cancer therapies […]

Beyond the Survey Using AI to evaluate and grow leaders’ skills, boost team performance By Abigail Covington Photos by Kat Lawrence Above: Research team members Scott Tonidandel, Wenwen Dou and George Banks evaluate how leaders’ speech, particularly how something is said, can signal leadership behaviors. George Banks, co-director of the Center for Leadership Science and chair of UNC […]