News and Features

Three recent gifts to the University, totaling $5.8 million, will support the creation of three new professorships at UNC Charlotte, continuing to advance the University’s teaching and research missions.

Research funding at UNC Charlotte reached an all-time high in 2020-21, supporting University researchers’ efforts to address some of society’s greatest challenges, among them keeping communities healthy, mitigating cybersecurity threats and enhancing the resilience of the power grid.

UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Japanese David Boyd has won the coveted Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, presented by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.

Black erasure is a bedrock of systematic racism, and the refusal to see Black lives that matter propels the need to understand the making of race and its legacy. 

The UNC Charlotte Children’s Choir is scheduled to resume on Jan. 31. This free, 14-week program provides students in grades three through five the chance to participate in a choral ensemble. University faculty and music education students will provide instruction.Children are selected by their music teachers to participate in the choir.

The pandemic has impacted everyone in many different ways that have become hindrances to many. One of the biggest changes has been the reliance on online versions of the things most people used to enjoy: ordering food, watching movies and participating in classes.

Michelle Guobadia is the director for fraternity and sorority life. Learn more about Guobadia’s role, what she’s looking forward to for Greek life this semester and some unknown facts.

Thirteen paintings by Assistant Professor of Art Andrew Leventis will be displayed at the Mint Museum Uptown Friday, Jan. 14, through Sunday, May 8, for the museum’s “Constellation CLT” series, which celebrates work by local artists. The series spotlights three artists each year.

Belk College of Business professor Natasha Randle says it’s important for employers to focus on management fundamentals as record numbers of employees are quitting their jobs.

Dorothy B. Gilliam is the featured speaker for UNC Charlotte’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. The MLK Celebration, which will be held virtually for the second straight year, takes place on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Jessica Lindsey, associate professor of clarinet, in collaboration with her musical partner, Christy Banks, recently released a new CD of electroacoustic music — the first for the pair of clarinetists, who have performed together as Spatial Forces Duo since 2008.

Senior Betsabe Rojas Gonzalez is one of the first UNC Charlotte students or alumni ever chosen for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Program graduate fellowship.