In the Media

Source: WCNC Ranis created the sculpture “Diver, A Flood Marker,” which features a 12-foot snorkel design; he told ASC it was inspired by his experience scuba diving while working on another climate-related project. ASC described the choice as “a symbol of risk, survival and adaptation.”  To read more of this story, visit https://www.wcnc.com/article/tech/science/environment/charlotte-sculpture-flood-levels-dangers/275-e3fd3f9b-f2f8-4183-8713-0674ee5f9527.

Source: Spectrum News 1 Rodney Freeman, a digital production librarian at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte, is behind the documentary “Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians.” At his job, Freeman archives documents, film and photos and helps turn them into digital form.  “In order for people to have […]

Source: Rocktown Now To read the entire article, visit https://rocktownnow.com/news/218812-swartz-named-dean-of-jmu-school-of-professional-and-continuing-education/

Source: Harford Community College To read this article, visit https://www.harford.edu/about/get-to-know-harford/news/2024/05-may/olivia-rines.php

Source: Business Insider India To read this article, visit www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/a-former-facebook-director-says-managers-need-to-kill-the-weekly-11-meeting-heres-why-/articleshow/110186529.cms Rogelberg, an organizational psychologist and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, studies 1:1s. He noted that one of the biggest no-nos in these meetings is when the boss dominates the conversation or runs through a to-do list.

Source: Charlotte Observer Many of the people moving to Charlotte are young, single professionals, said Yongqiang Chu, director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte. They are looking for smaller spaces instead of houses and apartments with three bedrooms. “The Charlotte market has been struggling to provide a supply to match […]

Source: Charlotte Observer “A lot of people used to tell me when I first got here ‘Well, we try to work with other R1’s in North Carolina, but they’re a couple of hours away,’” UNC Charlotte Chancellor Sharon Gaber told The Charlotte Observer. “Every great city has a great research university … Charlotte deserves that.” […]

Source: WCNC “We have this legacy of disinvestment in communities of color and low-income communities in our city that manifest itself in poorer health conditions, lower quality of life outcomes for those communities,” Katherine Idziorek, an assistant professor of geography and community planning at UNC Charlotte, said. “This will be an opportunity to understand better […]

“One of the reasons that physicists were surprised that cats could rotate to always land on their feet is the conservation of angular momentum,” Greg Gbur, a physicist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, told Live Science. Source: Live Science    To read this article, visit https://www.livescience.com/animals/cats/how-do-cats-land-on-their-feet

Source: WBTV To read this article, visit https://www.wbtv.com/2024/04/30/unc-charlotte-holds-memorial-service-five-years-after-fatal-campus-shooting/