UNC Charlotte alums and North Carolina representatives Mike Hager and Jason Saine recently visited the University to celebrate the completion of the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI) by MCNC (Microelectronics Center of North Carolina).
49er New Year and RecFest will be held Sunday, Aug. 18; both events are annual happenings for new and returning students, and faculty and staff members, to celebrate the start of a new academic year.
UNC Charlotte’s fourth class of 15 Levine Scholars is set to embark upon their first semester at the University. But before they enter the classroom, the incoming freshmen recently wrapped up a challenging 25-day leadership experience in Wyoming’s Absaroka Range. The wilderness expedition has become a summer tradition that began with the program’s inaugural class.
Eileen Jakeway, a Hough High School graduate and Levine Scholar, is to be the subject of a feature story in the Charlotte Observer. Reporter Steve Lyttle is conducting the interviews for the story, which is scheduled for publication this weekend.
Jakeway received a number of scholarship offers to attend Ivy League schools but selected UNC Charlotte.
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The College of Education’s Teacher Education Advising Licensure and Recruitment Office will host a retirement reception in honor of Sam Nixon from noon to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the College of Education, Room 110.
Lane Harrison, a doctoral candidate in computing and information systems, will defend the dissertation “The Role of Emotion in Visualization” at 3 p.m., Friday, Aug. 23, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Aidong Lu is the dissertation advisor.
Deeptak Verma, a 2012 graduate with a doctorate in bioinformatics and computational biology, is this year's recipient of the Graduate School’s Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Nearly 5,550 students will make the campus their residence during the 2013-14 academic year. Move-in, scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Aug. 16-18, will be the time for new and returning students to set up their home away from home.
