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“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 […]

The Center for Humane AI Studies: Researching a New Frontier An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UNC Charlotte is harnessing its collective knowledge and deep experience in computer science, data science, political science, philosophy, computational and health sciences — and more — to establish the Center for Humane AI Studies. Their aim? Weigh the potential […]

STATE OF THE HEART. A grad school romance led to a med-tech breakthrough that may save the lives of millions of patients suffering from mitral regurgitation.

A Blueprint for Better Care Architect Damian Huneycutt takes a patient-first approach to design By Phillip Brown Photos by Amy Hart When you consider what is driving the future of health care, the first thought might not be architecture — but Damian Huneycutt ’01 ’02 AIA ACHA is proving how critical design can be to patient […]

LONG-TERM SUCCESS. As an incoming first-year student, Kris Seberry had convinced himself that he would find the University Transition Opportunities Program unenjoyable — even unnecessary. Although he longed for a traditional college experience after completing high school during the COVID pandemic, Seberry, a self-described loner, hesitated to enroll in UNC Charlotte’s signature six-week summer program for first-time-in-college students.

SOLVING THE INSOLUBLE Engineering graduate Jordan Landis ’24 spearheads researching the use of microplastic-eating algae to improve Charlotte’s wastewater treatment — and America’s overall water quality Written by: Phillip Brown Photos by: Amy Hart Jordan Landis ’24 takes a hard look at a water sample before placing it under a microscope to examine. Despite its […]