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49erNext co-admission program helps community college students seamlessly transfer to UNC Charlotte

October 20, 2021
In the two years since UNC Charlotte introduced 49erNext, a co-admission program with select community college partners, data shows that participating students are overcoming barriers and staying on course for higher education completion. Since spring 2020, 43 students from the first cohort have been admitted to UNC Charlotte.

Department of Kinesiology looks to the future with new name

October 20, 2021
The UNC Charlotte Department of Kinesiology is now the Department of Applied Physiology, Health, and Clinical Sciences. The change comes at the end of a long research campaign aimed at settling on terminology that would enhance the possibilities for new programs, recruitment, enrollment potential and overall growth.

Mock dorm room fire demonstration scheduled

October 18, 2021
The Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS) and Fire and Safety Technologists (FAST), a student organization that focuses on educating the public about fire safety, will host a mock dorm room burn demonstration and fire safety fair at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26, on Recreation Field 14A, across from Robinson Hall.

Meet Ken Smith

October 15, 2021
Ken Smith ‘92, chief budget officer and proud alumnus, loves working at UNC Charlotte and pouring himself into a job that helps those around him. Learn about Smith’s role, who he spends his free time with and his love for Charlotte athletics.Describe your job and what you do at UNC Charlotte. 

Driving innovation in energy, medicine, defense, communications, Center for Metamaterials receives third round of NSF funding

October 14, 2021
For over a decade, researchers and students in UNC Charlotte’s Center for Metamaterials have studied and created materials that can bend, absorb, transmit and otherwise manipulate light and sound waves that pass through them.

Innovative redesign of statistics course improves grades, decreases equity gap

October 13, 2021
When Victoria Torres sat in her Introduction to Statistics course on the first day of class in spring 2020, she experienced a daunting feeling. The lecture format in a dimly lit classroom was unnerving to her.“Statistics can seem scary to many students,” Torres said. “I just didn’t feel comfortable in that class.” 

Inaugural capacity-building cohort to support students’ basic needs

October 13, 2021
UNC Charlotte joins 27 higher education institutions across the country to help launch the first #RealCollege Institutional Capacity-Building Cohort (ICBC) to assist colleges and universities to retain students who need food and housing.

Social work graduate serving success as owner of Sabor Latin Street Grill

October 12, 2021
Miriam Espaillat ’13 MSW is proud of what Sabor has become as a restaurant, but the company culture and stories of its staff are what fuel her passion.

National Science Foundation grant will boost high-performance computing

October 12, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UNC Charlotte $474,840 to enhance its research infrastructure. The funding makes possible an advanced network that will improve communication among researchers and their external partners, accelerate research workflows and allow new, innovative research processes to emerge.

National Coming Out Day: ‘A part of who I am’

October 11, 2021
"While striving each day to change perceptions of the LGBTQIA+ community in the media, Danny Tulledge ’15 reminds us on National Coming Out Day that being transgender is a part of who he is."

Unveiling UNC Charlotte’s land acknowledgement plaque

October 11, 2021
On Monday, Oct. 11, in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, UNC Charlotte unveiled a land and people acknowledgement plaque outside Popp Martin Student Union.

Malcolm Butler appointed dean for Cato College of Education

October 8, 2021
Malcolm Butler will join UNC Charlotte’s Cato College of Education as dean in January 2022.