Nearly 100 students are participating in the fourth annual UNC Charlotte Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program hosted by the College of Education this summer.
Culinary expertise at UNC Charlotte is growing as Chartwells adds two new chefs, Jason Shillinglaw and Marcello Molina; the University’s dining staff now has seven chefs with more than 160 years of combined experience.
The College of Arts + Architecture hosted more than 20 engineers and executives from Ingersoll Rand, Wednesday, June 26, to assist in building the Solar Decathlon house UrbanEden. The Ingersoll Rand guests helped pour geopolymer tiles that will be used in the structure’s rain catchment troughs.
“Bonnie Cone: Educator, Trailblazer, Visionary” is on display on the first floor of the Atkins Library. It tells the story of UNC Charlotte’s founder, Bonnie Ethel Cone.
UNC Charlotte’s inaugural football season brings to mind the prospect of a traditional fall homecoming game. To coincide with such an event, the UNC Charlotte Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter is launching an effort to build a home for a deserving family on the University campus.
In the two-day workshop “Grow Your Own Fall Veggies,” participants will discover where to start and what to choose for planting in the “cool” season.
Mae Lin Plummer will be the instructor for this workshop, being offered by the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens.
On Monday, July 1, the Charlotte 49ers will complete the move to Conference USA, a league they were members for 10 years (from 1995-96 through 2004-05). The 49ers will bid farewell to the Atlantic 10 Conference, of which they were member for eight years, from 2005-06 through 2012-13.
During their Atlantic 10 membership, Charlotte 49ers put up some outstanding numbers:
The UNC Charlotte Venture program is offering four summer trips – backpacking, kayaking, paddling and hiking. All excursions are open to UNC Charlotte students, faculty, staff and community members.
Seven UNC Charlotte students will travel to the combined Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Collegiate 9-Ball and Table Tennis Championships at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.
Judy Rose, director of athletics, received the Charlotte Business Journal Lifetime Achievement Award during the publication’s annual Women in Business luncheon at the Charlotte Convention Center Thursday.
Regular drivers on campus may have noticed new signage for all parking lots and decks – a result of a year-long effort initiated by Steve Terry in facilities management.
