The Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences recently received the 18th annual Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The honor is granted annually to an academic department, office or program in recognition of its maintaining high-quality teaching.
In announcing the award, Provost Joan Lorden cited the department’s accomplishments.
Warren Cole, a professional science master’s degree student in the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, has received a summer internship from the Open Science Data Cloud – Partnership for International Research and Education (OSCD-PIRE) project.
Bio-Adhesive Alliance of Greensboro topped the field of 19 finalists to win the $25,000 grand prize of the Charlotte Venture Challenge.
The company, a spinout from N.C. A&T University, has developed an innovative technology to produce liquid asphalt from pig manure.
Meg Whalen from the College of Arts + Architecture talks with Stephen Ward about UrbanEden, the University’s entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
A reception in honor of Gale Helms will be at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 9, in Cone University Center, Room 112.
Helms, assistant director of financial systems support, is retiring after 30 years of service to the University.
Doctoral student Gregory Berka is the 2012-13 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award presented by the Graduate School.
Berka, a student in the organizational science program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, was selected for his exemplary commitment to the craft of teaching.
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.
