Latricia Boone recently joined the public relations team in the Office of University Communications, Division for University Advancement.
Boone, who reports to PR director John Bland, will serve as communications director for the colleges of Education and Health and Human Services.
Wei Song, a doctoral student in bioinformatics, and Andrew Besmer, a doctoral student in software and information systems, will defend their dissertations on July 9 and 11, respectively.
Carla Eastis has been appointed the University’s new Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) assessment director. In this position, she will work with faculty and colleges to implement "Prospect for Success" (enhancing student engagement in the curriculum) and to develop a meaningful and authentic assessment process.
The College of Arts + Architecture’s Projective Eye Gallery, located at UNC Charlotte Center City, will present “Aggregation Transformation,” an interactive installation created by four faculty members, Ryan Buyssens, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, Heather Freeman and Erik Waterkotte.
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.
