General News

Contemporary dance company Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m., Monday,  Feb. 23, in the Student Union, Room 340 D-I. The event, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board (CAB), is free and open to the public.

Founded in 1994, the dance company is the first professional ensemble dedicated to the tradition of stepping. It now ranks as one of the top 10 African American dance companies in the United States.

Work continues on the four-acre First Ward Park, a joint public-private venture. With its location between ImaginOn and UNC Charlotte Center City, the park will provide the University with arts and cultural programming opportunities.

The Office of Academic Services, in collaboration with the Advising Redesign Team, will hold a half-day seminar for career and undergraduate academic advisors from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, Feb. 20, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center, Salons A and B.

The Department of Languages and Culture Studies will host the interdisciplinary symposium “Translations Versus Globalization” on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

The symposium will celebrate 20-plus years of international and intellectual exchange between UNC Charlotte and the Université de Limoges, and it will feature 30 speakers from China, France, Spain and the United States focusing on translation issues in 10 languages.

Chancellor Philip Dubois along with Siemens Energy and Hexagon Metrology executives discuss the dedication of the Siemens Large Manufacturing Solutions Lab and its implications for advanced manufacturing.

Guest artists Khalid Hill and Ricardo Foster Jr. will take the stage along with student and alumni actors for “The Purple Flower & Other Plays,” an innovative production of African-American short plays. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 18-21, and 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 22, in Robinson Hall’s Belk Theater.

Although awarded best new play by Crisis magazine in 1927, Marita Bonner’s Harlem Renaissance masterpiece “The Purple Flower” rarely has been seen on stage and was never performed during her lifetime. 

Recently, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) updated its internal control standards, which form the backbone of internal control frameworks in organizations worldwide. North Carolina has adopted the COSO standards across all government agencies and universities, which has implications for all UNC Charlotte employees.

The University is planning a number of infrastructure projects that will provide long-term benefits for vehicular and pedestrian flow. Several construction initiatives will begin in the coming weeks and months and will add or enhance roadways, sidewalks, bike lanes and ADA access.

Some project timelines will overlap causing traffic congestion in different areas; however, the ultimate goal is to make the campus more fluid for vehicles and pedestrians. The University is overseeing these projects carefully, with a targeted ending date for all projects by August 2015.

James Vesce, chair of the Department of Theatre, and theatre student Dylaney Edinger are the guests on the Feb. 12 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. 

A documentary screening and panel discussion of “Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower” will be at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, in the College of Health and Human Services, Room 128.

Kristen Reynolds, a master’s student in English literature and a Graduate Life Fellow of the Center for Graduate Life, will host the event.