Giving Green co-chairs Joël Gallegos and Misty Hathcock kicked off the 2013 campaign with a combined pledge of $1,946, as they encouraged all University employees to support the drive.
James Cook, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the first recipient of the Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement.
Elmer Henry Garinger was one of the visionary leaders who helped Charlotte College realize the dream of becoming a four-year, state-supported institution.
The first UNC Charlotte Center City Literary Festival will be on Saturday, Oct. 12; a new event, the festival will feature a carnival-like program for children in the afternoon with a separate evening event geared toward adults.
Friday, Sept. 27, is the early registration deadline for the annual “Fore P.J.” Memorial Golf Tournament. Proceeds from this event fund a $4,000 scholarship provided through the Department of Recreational Services to rising juniors and seniors who are actively involved in the department.
Students who are interested in meeting other veterans as a way to build camaraderie with those who share similar experiences can attend meetings of a veteran’s group coordinated through the Counseling Center.
Veteran’s group meetings will be from 1 to 1:50 p.m., Mondays, starting Oct. 14; weekly sessions will go through Nov. 18.
Philip Spencer, founding director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence at Kingston University, will lecture on “Understanding the Holocaust and Modern Genocide at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28, in the College of Health and Human Services, Room 281.
Diane Zablotsky, faculty director of the Levine Scholars Program, is vice president of the Undergraduate Scholars Program Administrators Association (USPAA); she will serve a two-year term.
In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds – how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site’s continuous use over millennia.
Psychology professor Kimberly Buch is the 2013 recipient of the highest teaching honor bestowed by UNC Charlotte, the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.
