General News

The Office of Academic Affairs recognized faculty and an academic unit for exemplary work in the areas of teaching, advising and civic engagement at the annual Provost’s Awards Reception held Monday, April 10.

Coming fall 2024, Charlotte will celebrate the world created by L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

Tamara Johnson, director of engaged scholarship, was recently nominated for Charlotte Ledger’s 40 over 40 Awards. Learn more about her work in research and teaching, the rewards of her job and her family’s history at UNC Charlotte.

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The University Career Center will recognize disabled community members as well as their professional development and workforce rights with programming around the theme “Disability @ Work: Advocating for a Brighter Future,” during the week of April 12-19. 

The week will kick off with an open house at the Career Center Wednesday, April 12, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Other events throughout the week will feature experts and employers about their companies’ disability-focused initiatives.

Sophomore Kayla Walker, a Levine Scholar who is majoring in public health sciences and mathematics, with a concentration in statistics, is among the 2023-24 Newman Civic Fellows named by Campus Compact.

Eric Hoenes del Pinal, assistant professor and undergraduate program director for the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Scholar for Guatemala.
Trained as a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, Hoenes del Pinal’s approach to the study of religion is strongly ethnographic with an emphasis on the role of language and non-verbal forms of communication in shaping human interaction. 

In North Carolina, UNC Charlotte stands alone in training teachers in literacy instruction.

Charlotte’s Master of Science in Mathematical Finance program is judged one of the best in the nation, soaring into the Top 10 in TFE Times’ Best Master’s of Financial Engineering programs rankings for 2023.

The five inaugural recipients of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Leadership Award are “impeccable people” who have never let the college or UNC Charlotte down, said emcee Ohavia Phillips ’15.

Assistant Professor of Dance Kaustavi Sarkar has received the James H. Woodward Faculty Research Award. Established in 2021, this annual award is given to an untenured faculty member who has been reappointed to a tenure-track position. Sarkar is the second faculty member to receive the award.