General News

Alex Gomes has been accepted into the 2021 Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) internship program established by Americans for the Arts.

A nursing alumna who volunteered to go to New York in the early weeks of the COVID-19 crisis and an alumnus who keeps his exceptional students engaged at a Charlotte high school were honored on Wednesday, March 31, as the first official guests of the new UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Brittany Akinsola ’11 and Robert Wright ’18, […]

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center officially opened its doors, March 31, 2021. The $87 million, 173,000-square-foot project is owned by the UNC Charlotte Endowment Fund, financed by the UNC Charlotte Foundation and operated by Sage Hotel Management, a Sage Hospitality Group company. Developed by AMS Hospitality, the hotel features 226 guest rooms and 21,563 square feet of event space. […]

Celebrate a diverse Women’s History Month with recommendations from Janaka Lewis, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Architect, researcher, educator and curator Sekou Cooke is the new director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program; he will join the architecture faculty in August.

A new book by Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams explores Silvestre Technique, the contemporary dance technique founded by Rosangela Silvestre as an extension of the spiritual dance traditions of enslaved Africans in Brazil. “Giving Life to Movement: The Silvestre Dance Technique” was published recently by McFarland.

Jason Dungee will join the faculty in August as assistant professor of Music and director of choral activities. A conductor, tenor and music educator, Dungee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Arizona. His master’s degree in music education/choral conducting is from Westminster Choir College, and he completed a bachelor’s degree in music performance from Hampton University (Virginia).

Women make up the majority of nontenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors. Here are a just few UNC Charlotte researchers who represent the exceptional women of the faculty.

Akin Ogundiran, a Chancellor’s Professor and professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is the 2021 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award, in recognition of excellence in research.

At UNC Charlotte, African American students are graduating at a rate higher than any time in the University’s history — especially in STEM majors.