More than 50 interactive, hands-on activities and displays will be featured during the UNC Charlotte Science and Technology Expo, set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, April 21, on the plaza near the Student Union.
This free, public event will offer something of interest for virtually every member of the family, according to expo organizers.
Examples of expo activities include:
Nineteen finalists for the Charlotte Venture Challenge (CVC) have been selected from among 95 entries, and one start-up company will receive the $25,000 grand prize as the winner of the 12th annual event on Wednesday, May 1. Category winners will share $50,000 in prize awards funded by the Hauser Family Fund.
Jane Jacobs is known for her advocating mindful development of cities and for revolutionizing urban planning since the 1960s. In honor of her birth, during the first week in May, many locales worldwide encourage city-dwellers to get to know their own places better.
Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a common delivery model for many business applications, including accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), management information systems (MIS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), invoicing, human resource management (HRM), content management (CM) and service desk management.
Presenters from Singapore, Macao, Nigeria, Egypt and Poland will join a Microsoft executive at the third annual Global Research Conference set for Friday, April 26, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center.
Zhongjie Lin, associate professor of architecture, has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1925, the Guggenheim Fellowship has recognized “impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment” in scholarship and the creative arts. Of nearly 4,000 applicants, 173 were chosen. Lin is one of only three recipients this year from North Carolina.
As the world seeks ways to reduce energy costs and speed access to alternative energy solutions, UNC Charlotte researcher Deborah Strumsky is leading a team that will use modeling to forecast optimal investments for the array of solar energy technologies that are emerging.
Carol Folt, interim president of Dartmouth College and professor of biological sciences, was elected chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Tom Ross placed Folt’s name in nomination Friday, April 12, during a special meeting of the board. Folt, 61, will assume her new duties July 1, succeeding Holden Thorp
Brice Bible, Michael Carlin and Ravi Pendse, three candidates for the position of vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer, will visit campus between April 17-19 to interview for the position and deliver campus presentations.
On this installment of “The Live Wire,” Stephen Ward, executive director of University communications, talks with Stanley Wilder, University Librarian, about how space utilization within the J. Murrey Atkins Library has changed, and how these alterations differ from libraries of past generations.
The Charlotte 49ers men’s soccer team and alumni, the Urban Ministry Center’s Street Soccer 945 squad and the La Raza soccer team will face off in a round-robin soccer tournament on Saturday, April 27, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, has received a one-year Fulbright Fellowship to conduct a comparative study of the Udje dance songs of the Urhobo of Nigeria, African-American Greek step show and battle rap, Afro-Caribbean calypso and Afro-Brazilian capoeira and jongo.
