General News

Charlotte women’s soccer goalkeeper Emily Keck was recognized with Conference USA’s Spirit of Service Award for the fall season.

The C-USA Spirit of Service Award recognizes the community service efforts of the league’s student-athletes. Conference USA awards the honor three times during the school year, after each of the fall, winter and spring sports seasons.

Keck was chosen as Charlotte’s representative for women’s soccer this fall and won the honor with her community service, good academic standing and participation on the soccer team.

Five College of Arts + Architecture faculty members and one retired professor are among the recent recipients of grants from the local Arts & Science Council.

Associate Professor of Dance Tamara Williams has received a 2023 Cultural Vision Grant; Professor of Art Maja Godlewska, Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, Professor of Art Lydia Thompson, Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, and retired ceramics professor Keith Bryant received 2023 Artist Support Grants.

The Charlotte 49ers Athletics Department unveiled its enhanced partnership with INFLCR that will allow student-athletes to pursue name, image and likeness opportunities.

Through Niner Exchange, companies can register to offer potential business deals for 49ers’ student-athletes. Business ventures can include but are not limited to public appearances, autograph signings, social media promotion and endorsement, private lessons and athletic camps.

Theatre students Logan Pavia and Sam Pomerantz ’22 were featured performers at the 2022 Holiday Pops concert presented by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

UNC Charlotte administrative offices will be closed Friday, Dec. 23, through Monday, Jan. 2, for winter break. The University will resume normal operations Tuesday, Jan. 3.

The first day of classes for spring semester 2023 is Monday, Jan. 9.

The fall 2022 edition of UNC Charlotte Magazine, with a new look and style, offers compelling stories about the ways our accomplished alumni, innovative faculty and staff members and creative students are “Shaping What’s Next.”

49ers Megan Mitchem, Brayden Vanmilligan, Lisa Insixiengmay and others are taking advantage of Charlotte’s educational opportunities and access to transform their lives.

Heather Smith, professor of geography, interim chair of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and Levine Scholars faculty fellow, has been appointed faculty director of the Levine Scholars Program, effective July 1, 2023. She succeeds Diane Zablotsky, who will return as a faculty member to the Department of Sociology.

UNC Charlotte’s Center for Graduate Life and Learning is now the Thomas L. Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning in recognition and honor of Tom Reynolds, associate provost for graduate programs and dean of the Graduate School. The naming took place during a special ceremony at the center in Atkins Library Thursday, Dec.15. 

Charlotte rises in the ranks, Alumni in Power Listing, a new 704 Shop tee and more.

In fall 2021, the University announced it would launch a review of the structure of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. A committee led by Belk College of Business Dean Jennifer Troyer assessed the pros and cons of maintaining a single college or reorganizing departments into smaller colleges.