General News

The Charlotte 49ers will play at the University of Kentucky, a member of the Southeastern Conference, during the 2015 season, which will be the team’s first as a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision. The game is slated for Nov. 21, 2015.The 49ers, whose football program has played the 2013 and 2014 seasons as an FCS Independent, will compete in Conference USA in 2015 with an opportunity to gain full FBS member status with bowl eligibility in 2016.

William Brandon, the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in Health at UNC Charlotte, will be among the panelists for “Healthcare for All – Can We Make it Happen?” This discussion will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 26, at Myers Park Baptist Church, 1900 Queens Rd.

Mario Röllig spent three months in East Berlin’s Hohenschönhausen Prison in 1987 for trying to flee communist East Germany. He will tell his story at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9, at UNC Charlotte Center City, during an afternoon of public activities to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  

The College of Arts + Architecture will open the exhibit “ICARUS: An Exploration of the Human Urge to Fly” Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Projective Eye Gallery in UNC Charlotte Center City.

Three Charlotte city bonds up for vote in November, and during the early voting period, include a number of projects related to the University City area.

The bonds include $110.96 million for transportation projects, $20 million for neighborhood improvements and $15 million to build housing for low- to middle-income residents.

In its first 10 years, Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts has proven itself to be an important venue to showcase the cultural offerings of the University to the campus, as well as the greater community. Recently, the College of Arts + Architecture held a special celebration to commemorate Robinson Hall’s 10th anniversary.

Named for Russell and Sally Dalton Robinson, the three-story, 118,000-square-foot facility contains classrooms, offices and performance and rehearsal spaces for the departments of dance, music and theatre.

Amy Palmer with the College of Education’s Department of Special Education and Child Development won a $250 U.S. Airways gift card as part of a Giving Green raffle. The drawing was held to encourage financial support for agencies within the State Employees Combined Campaign.

Faculty, staff and students can enjoy the fall weather while assisting with this semester’s campus cleanup, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22. As part of this effort, tree banding to protect against canker worms will be from 10 a.m. to noon.

Eric Heberlig, professor of political science, is a co-recipient of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation’s D.B. Hardeman Prize for the work “Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition and the Financing of Majority of Control.”

Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose Charles Best will discuss his “crowd funding” approach to philanthropy at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 14. Inside UNC Charlotte will livestream the presentation. Best has been named to Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40 Hottest Rising Stars in Business” for three consecutive years. He created the nonprofit DonorsChoose.org while a history teacher in the Bronx to address inequality in education funding. Through the website, teachers could create classroom project requests, and donors could pick the projects they wanted to support financially.