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Transformational gift of up to $23 million to amplify UNC Charlotte's national impact on literacy instruction

May 10, 2023
The investment of up to $23 million will support PreK-5 literacy education through the Mebane Early Literacy Center.

Solving UNC Charlotte bird collisions one building at a time

May 9, 2023
Last spring, students at UNC Charlotte began raising awareness about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America - collisions with buildings and their squeaky clean glass.

NSF grant enables professors, students to research climate-resilient architecture in Tanzania

May 5, 2023
Assistant Professor of Architecture Liz McCormick and co-investigator Brett Tempest, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to eng

CCI’s Richard White receives NASA grant to explore how life formed on Earth

April 26, 2023
For the first time in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s nearly 80-year history, a faculty member has won a NASA Exobiology grant.

NSF grants awarded CCI researchers to explore ways AI can aid aging population, patient diagnoses

April 17, 2023
Srijan Das and Xiang Zhang, two first-year faculty researchers in the College of Computing and Informatics, have received funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate how artificial intelligence can benefit older adults and others in health care settings.

Charlotte research expenditures among top third in U.S., led by computer and information sciences

April 3, 2023
UNC Charlotte’s upward trajectory toward top-tier research university status is supported by a recent national report of research expenditures for U.S. colleges and universities.

Researchers highlight new strategies in fight against cancer

March 16, 2023
Cancer, which affects millions every year, requires proteins to spread through the body. In a new strategy to beat the wide-ranging disease, scientists are sabotaging its protein factories.

Charlotte researcher Liyue Fan is exploring solutions to protect data privacy

March 13, 2023
The most important digital currency in ecommerce is data. As personal information is collected and shared, risks to individual privacy climb, and UNC Charlotte computer scientist Liyue Fan is researching novel ways to better protect individuals’ personal data.

Kirill Afonin, Margaret Quinlan honored for research and mentoring excellence

March 8, 2023
Charlotte faculty members Kirill Afonin and Margaret Quinlan are the 2023 recipients of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal and the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award, respectively.

Advanced computing at UNC Charlotte indicates current antibodies effective against newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5

February 16, 2023
A team at UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm, has used artificial intelligence to rapidly assess the public health implications of the newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 variant.

Researchers examined social media response to 2019 campus shooting

January 23, 2023
Faculty members from the College of Health and Human Services and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences studied the social media response to the campus shooting that occurred in April 2019.

Charlotte, Yale School of Public Health research study says annual or biannual COVID-19 boosters optimal for fighting COVID

January 18, 2023
Updated boosters administered on an annual or biannual basis greatly reduce the long-term risk of infection from endemic COVID-19.