General News

The Advisory Committee to the Chancellor for Employee Health and Wellness encourages faculty and staff to join in a campus walk from 2 to 3 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15, as part of the “Every Body Walk Charlotte” initiative. Participants will meet at the Cone University Center Plaza. Individuals who cannot participate at the scheduled time can walk on their own or organize a unit/office/departmental walk for Sept. 15; take pictures and email them to Mackenzie Harkey (mharkey6@uncc.edu).

Moutaz Khouja, professor of business information systems and operations management, is the second of five finalists for the 2015 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence to be featured in Inside UNC Charlotte.

YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will speak on creating one’s destiny during “The Todrick Hall Experience” at 8 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall. The event, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board (CAB), is free for UNC Charlotte Students with ID.

A recently launched online program available through the UNC Charlotte College of Education will train the next generation of virtual teaching and learning system architects and managers.

Crista Cammaroto, director of galleries, will be the guest on the Sept. 10 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. Starting at 2 p.m., Thursday, she will discuss the upcoming Projective Eye Gallery exhibition “Amalgamation: The Mixed-Media Works of Albert Chong.”

The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City will present “Amalgamation: The Mixed-Media Works of Albert Chong,” opening Friday, Sept. 18, with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by an artist lecture at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibition runs through Friday, Dec. 4.

Today’s game in Atlanta marks the start of Football Bowl Subdivision play for the Charlotte 49ers. The team is taking on the Georgia State Panthers at the Georgia Dome; the game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. in front of a national television audience on ESPNU.

“We’ve had a lot of firsts in starting this program, but this is probably the biggest,” said head coach Brad Lambert. “In my humble opinion, this is the greatest time of the year. The boys are all are getting ready to take the field. It doesn’t get any better than what we are getting ready to embark on.”

The College of Education’s John Beattie is among the five finalists for one of UNC Charlotte’s top honors – the 2015 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.

Nearly 550 new international students have begun their studies at UNC Charlotte, making this year’s class of incoming learners the University’s largest global contingent to enroll at the start of any semester.

In total, the University is hosting about 1,900 international students who are pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees or who are here for shorter cultural exchanges that is in addition to language training students. This places UNC Charlotte among the top 125 institutions in the United States in terms of international student enrollment.

Kerr Putney, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and Kami Chavis Simmons, a professor at the Wake Forest School of Law, will examine police use of force and other policing, civil rights and race issues at UNC Charlotte’s annual Constitution Day celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 16.