General News

The Niner Burger, Nashville Deviled Eggs and Cajun-style Crab Cakes: Executive Chef Andres Prussing is bringing southern heat to campus.

Avangelyne “Angel” Padilla and Jeremiah Williams have been named 2022 Marian Drane Graham Scholars by the UNC System.

Padilla and Williams will join two other scholars from the UNC System for an eight-week immersive and experiential summer program, designed to help them develop leadership skills and gain a better understanding of key issues facing public higher education.

Celebrity event designer Lance Devereux ’10 shines on VH1’s hit reality competition “My Celebrity Dream Wedding.”

Tenor Brian Arreola will perform the lead tenor role of Yoshizo in the Japanese opera “Hebionna” (Snake Woman) by Asako Hirabayashi. The opera will have its world premiere June 27 in a production in Rowe Recital Hall and will be filmed for future distribution. The performance is the latest project in Arreola’s ongoing creative research of music by Asian and Asian-American composers.

Valentina Cecchi, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named honorary consul of Italy to the state of North Carolina.

New program will seek to transform principal preparation.

Steven Rogelberg, professor of organizational science, management and psychology at UNC Charlotte, testified in a congressional hearing Wednesday, June 8. He discussed strategies representatives could use to be better leaders and how they could more effectively manage their staffs to build a broader strategy to navigate a challenging organizational structure. 

Brittany Anderson, assistant professor of urban education in the Cato College of Education, received a $1,062,034 grant from the National Science Foundation for her pioneering research on gifted Black girls.

Clare Short has been named the first head coach to lead the new Charlotte 49ers women’s lacrosse program. Short brings more than 10 years of experience, including the last six seasons as head coach at Queens University of Charlotte, multiple trips to the NCAA Division II Final Four and numerous regular season and tournament conference championships to the 49ers.

“Tracer,” a work by modern dance icon Paul Taylor was reconstructed at UNC Charlotte in 2016, will be performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in its upcoming Joyce Theater season at the famed New York City theater on June 15, 17 and 18.