General News

Chadwick Boyd ’93 is a noted food and lifestyle expert whose biscuit tour with celebrity chef Carla Hall has created a buzz. He returns to campus Nov. 6 to talk to students about how the University influenced his career.

The Department of Dance will present its Fall Concert Thursday, Nov. 14, through Sunday, Nov. 17; it will feature four works choreographed by faculty and performed by students.

The Department of Music’s Nov. 6 Faculty & Friends Concert will feature jazz artists Will Campbell, professor of saxophone, and DePauw University professor and pianist Steve Snyder.Campbell and Snyder played together in the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band in 1993-94. They both are currently members of the Michael Waldrop Big Band.Also director of the University’s jazz studies program, Campbell has been a featured performer on various albums, including “New Songs for the 20th Century” and “Don’t Blink.”

Stephanie Burt ’95, ’98 M.A. was featured recently on the cover of Charleston City Paper. She was interviewed for “On the Mic,” an article that focused on local podcasters in Charleston, South Carolina.A native of Charlotte, Burt hosts the weekly podcast “The Southern Fork,” featuring chefs, farmers, bakers and others in the culinary landscape from throughout the South.  

More than 800,000 residents of the 32 counties studied as part of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s Carolinas Urban-Rural Connections Project commute to work in a county other than the one in which they live—representing more than $32 billion of the region’s wages.

Akinwumi Ogundiran, a transdisciplinary scholar and professor in the departments of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is now a Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte.

Volker Wissing, chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and vice minister president of Rhineland- Palatinate, will present “The 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: 1989—The End of History? Learning from History to Succeed in the Future” at 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 4, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center, Salon A, as part of the 2019 International Speaker Series.

UNC Charlotte and Union County Public Schools administrators joined friends and family of Ellis Reed Parlier on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Central Academy of Technology and the Arts (CATA) in Monroe, North Carolina, to announce the Reed Parlier Memorial Scholarship.

Students, faculty, staff and community members will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the April 30 campus shooting and subsequent response through the Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project. By collecting first-hand accounts from individuals affected by the tragedy, UNC Charlotte will be able to preserve the memories and the vital historical context they provide.Participants can share their experiences in private from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 29-30, in Atkins Library’s Area 49 recording studio on the UNC Charlotte campus.

Death will mingle with the likes of Love, Friendship, Understanding and Stuff when the Department of Theatre presents “Everybody,” opening at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall. This contemporary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is based on the 15th century English morality play, “Everyman.”