General News

The LYNX Blue Line Extension project that will bring light rail to the UNC Charlotte campus has reached another milestone. Construction crews have tunneled below North Tryon Street and onto campus, with the path emerging a few hundred feet behind the Bioinformatics Building.

The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) organized an event for news media on March 22, allowing reporters – including a crew from the Office of University Communications – to walk through the down-ramp and tunnel.

A UNC Charlotte professor and four alumni were recognized as rising local leaders on the Charlotte Business Journal’s annual “40 under 40” list.

Robert Cox, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Lee College of Engineering, was recognized for his work in spearheading a team of engineers to create a successful startup company, Sine Watts.

The University’s annual Education Career Fair, scheduled for Friday, April 8, will offer education students, alumni and the public an opportunity to connect with schools/school districts and other education-related organizations.

The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center; it will bring representatives from more than 80 schools/school districts to campus.

Tamura Lomax, Darnell Moore and Heather Talley will participate in the discussion “The Feminist Wire — It’s Not Slacktivism: Innovating Intersectional Feminist Activism in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

All UNC Charlotte residence halls have fire alarms and sprinklers, and probably most off-campus housing offers protection for students. But fire prevention is a topic that warrants near-constant reminders, because a combustible event could have disastrous results.

To illustrate just how dangerous fire in a residence hall or an off-campus apartment could be, the University’s Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS) is conducting a simulation and awareness event from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, at the basketball court near Martin Hall (close to Parking Lot 6).

Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen was at Richardson Stadium March 17 to film a promo for the upcoming Showmars HEARTest Yard 5K on Saturday, April 9.

Proceeds from the 5K support the Levine Children’s Hospital. Olsen, through his foundation, established the HEARTest Yard initiative, a cutting-edge program that provides families of babies affected by congenital heart disease with a multitude of services. The Levine Children’s Hospital administers the program.

The Charlotte 49ers football program will open the 2016 spring season with spring practice starting Saturday, March 19. The spring season will conclude with the annual Green-White Game at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 23. This fall, the 49ers will begin their second season in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of Conference USA.

Head coach Brad Lambert returns 17 starters and 54 letter winners from the 2015 season.

Returners include second team all-Conference USA selections Larry Ogunjobi and Kalif Phillips. 

UNC Charlotte will test its emergency alert system between 10 and 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 25.  

During this test, both a “red” and “yellow” alert banner will appear alternately on University websites. Each of these alerts should produce a LiveSafe message that will be delivered to all UNC Charlotte subscribers of this application.

Stanley Schneider from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is one of the recipients of the 2016 UNC Board of Governors Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

This annual honor recognizes one professor at each of North Carolina’s public institutions. The 17 recipients were nominated by individual campus committees and selected by the Board of Governors’ Committee on Personnel and Tenure. Each award winner will receive a commemorative bronze medallion and a $12,500 cash prize.

UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business made big gains in the part-time MBA rankings by U.S. News and World Report, placing among the top 20 percent of all business schools nationwide.

The Belk College’s part-time MBA jumped 27 spots in the 2017 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings released Wednesday, landing at No. 59 among national universities and No. 35 among public schools. UNC Charlotte tied at No. 59 with 7 other schools including University of Connecticut, University of Richmond, and University of Colorado-Boulder.