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Each year, Charlotte Business Journal celebrates outstanding leadership through its Most Admired CEO Awards, spotlighting executives who combine strong organizational direction with a genuine commitment to the Charlotte community. This year, six Niners earned a place among the honorees—leaders whose work is shaping the region both inside and outside their organizations. Every honoree serves in […]

Welcome to the summer edition of “The Shared Table,” a collection of warm‑weather favorites from UNC Charlotte students, faculty and staff. Summer is a season built for sharing — sharing meals, sharing stories, sharing time with the people who matter most. Last fall, our community came together to submit recipes that reflected their cultures, families […]

As the United States of America prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial this July, people across the country will gather with friends, family and neighbors for parades, fireworks and, of course, food. For 250 years, Americans have marked life’s biggest moments around the table. Across generations, families and communities have shared recipes, prepared meals together and […]

Florence Okoro, an associate professor in the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, died June 16, 2026, following a brief illness. Okoro joined UNC Charlotte in August 2015 as an assistant professor. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing in Nigeria and completed a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in […]

On June 24, UNC Charlotte and the Belk College of Business lost a longtime colleague and respected mainstay of North Carolina economics with the death of John Connaughton.  Not long after Connaughton — who this spring was the University’s longest-serving faculty member — arrived in 1978 as a lecturer in the Department of Economics, he […]

Work continues on the stair replacement project at the Kennedy Building. As part of that project, the tulip canopy above the stairs must be removed. Over many decades, water runoff from the canopy contributed to significant deterioration of the stairs beneath it. The canopy has to be removed to complete the replacement project, and it […]

Jerry Richardson Stadium Expansion  Estimated Completion: Spring 2027 Charlotte’s football stadium is expanding to set the tone for Charlotte Athletics’ momentum. The first expansion of Jerry Richardson Stadium will provide additional access to 49ers games and significantly upgrade the fan experience by offering suites, club seating, loge boxes, ledge seating, an outdoor terrace and general […]

On the heels of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport and UNC Charlotte’s Aviation and Innovation Research Institute partnership announcement, University and CLT representatives served as keynote speakers at the Transportation Research Board Symposium on Aviation Innovation and Research June 8 to 11.  The symposium, hosted in Dayton, Ohio, brought together engineers, scientists and transportation researchers […]

The eyes of the sporting world will turn to North America this June and July during the FIFA World Cup. The event is spread across 16 cities throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States – marking its return to the U.S. for the first time since 1994. The largest and most-anticipated sporting event in the […]

Steven G. Rogelberg, chancellor’s professor at UNC Charlotte, was honored with the 2026 North Carolina Governor’s Medallion Award for Volunteer Service during a ceremony hosted by VolunteerNC on May 11 in Raleigh. The Medallion Award is the state’s highest recognition for volunteerism, presented annually to a select group of individuals whose service has made a […]