Completing a college degree is tough. Completing a college degree while confronting some of society’s most impactful and polarizing issues, and being brave enough to address them, is extraordinary.
UNC Charlotte administrative offices will be closed Friday, Dec. 24, through Monday, Jan. 3, for winter break. The University will resume normal operations Tuesday, Jan. 4.The first day of classes for the 2022 spring semester is Monday, Jan. 10.
For UNC Charlotte biochemist Andrew Truman, a quest for new and better treatments for cancers and neurological diseases drives his research into protein folding and the DNA damage response.
The Donning of the Kente ceremony is a celebration of cultural achievement, using the West African kente cloth as a symbol of African American heritage, to acknowledge the academic achievements and future aspirations of students from minoritized groups.
A group of urban design and architecture students have transformed the basketball courts at Alexander Street Park into vibrant street murals in a partnership with the Charlotte Urban Design Center.
Doug Hague, founding executive director of the School of Data Science, has been appointed to the North Carolina Innovation Council by Sen. Phil Berger and the North Carolina General Assembly.
UNC Charlotte students, alumni and faculty made quite an impression with critics and readers this year. From fighting homelessness and confronting economic inequality to using sculpture as cultural storytelling and transforming sneakers into social commentary, UNC Charlotte is on the scene and shaping what’s next in our city and beyond.
Construction of the Moore Hall replacement (Phase XVI), which was delayed in 2020, is underway. The new six-story, 147,000-square-foot residence hall will complete South Village’s upper residential quad and provide a direct pathway to South Village (SoVi) Dining Hall.
Since the emergence last summer of the COVID-19 delta variant, UNC Charlotte has partnered with the Mecklenburg County Health Department to provide genome sequencing to help health officials determine where in the county the coronavirus and its variants are present.
