In the Media
Heather Hadley ’24 is featured in a Prime Video docuseries
Source: Axios Charlotte https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2025/04/03/unc-charlotte-prime-video-first-to-the-finish-racing
Annelise Mennicke was a guest on WFAE discussing ‘How the DOGE cuts hit home for a UNC Charlotte professor and her team’
Source: WFAE Read more at https://www.wfae.org/podcast/southbound/2025-04-02/how-the-doge-cuts-hit-home-for-a-unc-charlotte-professor-and-her-team.
Jamie Kudlats provided comments for ‘Most and Least Financially Literate States (2025)
Source: WalletHub Read the article at https://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-financially-literate-states/3337#expert=Jamie_Kudlats.
John Connaughton and Ethan Chiang were interviewed for ‘Table of experts: 2025 economic outlook’
Source: Charlotte Business Journal Read the article at https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2025/03/28/table-of-experts-2025-economic-outlook.html.
Matthew Metzgar quoted in ‘When will cars get more expensive in NC? What to expect as Trump’s tariffs are set to begin’
Source: Charlotte Observer Car prices will go up for around 90% of new cars made in North America, says Matthew Metzgar, an economics professor at UNC Charlotte. “Cars’ … technology and the computer element has become bigger and bigger that even importing some of those pieces from, say, China, where there’s a 20% tariff, are […]
Damien Williams interviewed for ‘Is AI Worth It? A Growing Number of Artificial-Intelligence Skeptics Is Raising Doubts About a Utopian Future’
Source: Nob Hill Gazette Many have started to question whether the benefits of AI — or at least generative AI, the version of the technology that can mimic human-created writing, images and software code and that has dominated the industry since OpenAI first released ChatGPT in late 2022 — are worth the myriad downsides. Damien […]
Megan Smith interviewed for “’COVID-19 shed a light on loneliness, and it’s still an issue for many.’
Source: Spectrum News “Loneliness is the mismatch between the number of quality relationships one would like to have, versus the ones they feel like they have,” said Smith, an assistant teaching professor of sociology. The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on loneliness because as things slowed down, closed and operated remotely, many people felt isolated. Read […]
Howard University appoints Kimberly Moffitt ’92 dean of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications
Source: The Dig Moffitt ’92 earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government from UNC Charlotte. She later earned a Master of Arts in Communication from Boston University and a Ph.D. in mass communication and media studies from Howard University. “I remember developing my love of media criticism and culture here at Howard […]
Steven Rogelberg interviewed for ‘Research shows unproductive meetings might be ruining your day. Here’s how to fix that.’
Source: CBS News Rogelberg, author of “The Surprising Science of Meetings,” said, “A meeting hangover is the idea that when we have a bad meeting, we just don’t leave it at the door. It sticks with us, and it negatively affects our productivity.” Read the story at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dreading-meetings-research-shows-they-might-be-ruining-your-day/.
Robert Cramer’s career mission Is military suicide prevention
Source: Charlotte Magazine Cramer, who is the Irwin Belk Distinguished Scholar of Health Research in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, is developing suicide prevention training tools for the military and the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. Read the story at https://www.charlottemagazine.com/robert-cramers-career-mission-is-military-suicide-prevention/.