The University’s Clinical Psychology program recently received an initial five-year accreditation from the American Psychological Association (APA). The program is one of three tracks in the Health Psychology Ph.D. Program; it accepted its first class in 2005.
The Thomas I. Storrs Building resulted from the collaboration between Charlotte architectural firm Ferebee, Walters and Associates and New York architects Charles Gwaltmey and Robert Siegel.
Ellen McIntyre, interim associate dean of academic affairs at N.C. State University, has been named dean of the UNC Charlotte College of Education. Her appointment is effective July 1.
The School of Architecture has received a $1 million estate gift from Charles Hight, dean emeritus of the College of Architecture, and his wife, Jeannette.
Yousra Javed, a doctoral candidate in the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Software and Information Systems, is the first UNC Charlotte student to receive the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) International Peace Scholarship. This prestigious award is for up to $10,000, and it is renewable.
May is Internal Audit Awareness Month, a time that internal auditors around the world dedicate efforts to elevate the image of their profession.
According to Tom York, UNC Charlotte’s director of internal audit, one of the challenges in promoting the profession is to defeat perceptions of who auditors are and how they operate.
Meg Whalen from the College of Arts + Architecture will be a guest on the May 2 segment of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s live streaming webcast. She will discuss UrbanEden, the University’s entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
Ying Zhu, a doctoral student in computing and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, will defend “Social and Location-based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks” at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 16, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Yu Wang is the dissertation advisor.
On May 3, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will present “From the Back of the Line,” a documentary about the lives of seven undocumented immigrants living and working in Charlotte.
This free, public screening is scheduled for 7 p.m., Friday, at UNC Charlotte Center City. A question-and-answer session with the filmmakers and a reception will follow.
Artur Minasyan, a junior from Charlotte who is majoring in philosophy, recently placed first in the National Armenian Genocide Commemoration Essay Contest.
For this sixth annual competition, high school and college students addressed the question “Why is it Important for Schools Nationwide to Include the Armenian Genocide in the Core Curriculum?”
