General News

Halton Arena will be the site for two Harlem Globetrotters contests on March 26, 2016. Game times are 2 and 7 p.m. for the team’s appearance at UNC Charlotte, which is part of the Harlem Globetrotters 90th anniversary world tour.

From Oct. 1 through 10 p.m., Oct. 5, there is a special 25 percent discount (use offer code EARLY). Certain restrictions will apply; more information is on the Web.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 5, the portal “My UNC Charlotte” will debut; it will eventually replace 49er Express on Nov. 16. As vendor support for 49er Express is ending, ITS has worked with faculty, staff and students to re-examine and optimize the University’s gateway to a myriad of systems and services that include Banner Self Service, Academic Advising and 49er Mart.

The 40th International Festival will be Saturday, Oct. 17.

Registration for the walking program Miles to Wellness is through Thursday, Oct. 8. All faculty and staff members are eligible to participate in this four-week challenge that begins Monday, Oct. 12, and runs through Monday, Nov. 9.

The Advisory Committee to the Chancellor for Employee Health and Wellness will provide the first 200 participants with a pedometer to use.

Email Mackenzie Harkey at mharkey6@uncc.edu with questions.

Nearly 300 faculty and staff members strolled the red carpet inside the Barnhardt Student Activity Center Tuesday to celebrate the “Hollywood-esque” premiere of this year’s Giving Green Campaign; nonprofit organizations supported by the Arts & Science Council and State Employees Combined Campaign benefit from the University’s workplace giving program, along with units on campus through the UNC Charlotte Foundation.

Starting at 2 p.m., Thursday, tune into “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast, for a rebroadcast featuring Jeanne Madorin, executive director of human resources, and Keith Wassum, associate vice chancellor for business services, discussing the impact that the Friday, Oct. 2, home football game will have on campus.

Children’s Theatre of Charlotte’s (CTC) upcoming production of “Coraline” marks the start of a partnership with the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre that presents new opportunities for students, both on the stage and behind the scenes. Eight UNC Charlotte theatre students – three actors and five design and production students – have joined the cast and crew for “Coraline,” which runs Oct. 16-31 in the Wells Fargo Playhouse at ImaginOn. The co-production presents the first in an initiative that is intended to bring the Theatre Department and CTC together on a continual basis.

Zach Throckmorton, an assistant professor of anatomy at Lincoln Memorial University, will present “Hello, Homo naledi” at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5, in McEniry Building, Room 125.

The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16-17, at the McMillan Greenhouse.

A wide selection of shrubs, perennials, wildflowers, ferns, cool weather annuals and native plants will be on sale. Proceeds support operations of the greenhouse and the gardens.

Botanical Gardens members and the campus community can attend a pre-sale from noon to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15.

The UNC Charlotte Department of Art and Art History presents work by acclaimed new-media artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. “Priests of the Temple 2015” opens in Rowe Galleries on Monday, Oct. 5, with a lecture by the artists at 4 p.m., followed by a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition continues through Friday, Oct. 30.