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Elevate Your Leadership at the 2025 LEAD Symposium The Office of Human Resources, with strong support from senior leadership, presents the inaugural 2025 LEAD Symposium: Resilience and Wellbeing-Focused Leadership from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center. This University-wide initiative reflects a strategic commitment to cultivating resilient, empathetic and high-performing […]

2025 Honors College Dean’s Prize Recipients Named Foster Duckworth, Mia Huffman, Ana Krstanovic and Tashawna Wilkins are the 2025 Dean’s Prize recipients for outstanding honors capstone theses/projects. Get to know these outstanding Niners and their research. On Monday, Aug. 18, more than 1,700 students attended the Gold Rush Athletics Pep Rally, featuring coaches, players, student organizations […]

We welcomed our largest class of more than 4,900 first-year students representing 95 North Carolina counties, 39 states ad 20 countries; and greeted more than 3,000 new transfer students, the highest number we’ve seen since 2016. The Difference is Charlotte!

University Convocation: Spotlight on ‘The Difference is Charlotte’ The city of Charlotte is more than the location of its top-tier research university. At University Convocation, Thursday, Aug. 14, Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber heralded UNC Charlotte’s connection to the Queen City. A New Semester, an Improved Niner Insider Some of you may be longtime readers of Niner […]

Welcome to the 2025–26 academic year, Niners! Some of you may be longtime readers of Niner Insider; others may be seeing it for the first time. Either way, we’ve got exciting new things to share! In your inbox Mondays and Thursdays Our newsletter debuts a new look this semester, but the mission remains the same: […]

Paul Riefenberg ’90 is NUTS for Charlotte Paul Riefenberg ’90 has a passion for all things UNC Charlotte. A proud Belk College of Business alumnus, he shares his experience as a student, how his student connections led to a successful career and why he gives back every chance he can. Congratulations, 2025 Summer Graduates UNC Charlotte […]

Editor’s Note: Summer Commencement is here! During the ceremony Saturday, Aug. 9, UNC Charlotte will confer more than 1,000 degrees and certificates. Read more about the graduates and the ceremony in this special edition. Charlotte Readies for First Summer Commencement UNC Charlotte will hold its inaugural Summer Commencement for 2025 graduates, Saturday, Aug. 9, in […]

Did ‘The Pitt’ Get it Right? A Social Work Lecturer Weighs In HBO’s “The Pitt” has been hailed as one of the most realistic portrayals of emergency medicine on TV. Lynn Puma, a lecturer in the School of Social Work within UNC Charlotte’s College of Health and Human Services, watched the show and weighed in on […]

UNC Charlotte Executive Chefs Share Summer BBQ Essentials Summer is in full swing, which means it’s time to fire up the grill and call family and friends to the backyard! John Hutchison, campus executive chef, and Calvin Seabury, executive chef at SoVi, share their cookout essentials and tips to elevate your grill game.  what you need […]

THree NIners Bound for the Big Leagues after MLB Draft Joel Sarver, Logan Poteet and Blake Gillespie were selected during the recent 2025 Major League Baseball Draft. Gillespie was the first 49er taken in the ninth round as the 284th pick, before Poteet and Sarver went in the 17th round. What you need to know: […]