Research

Research is fundamental to the mission of UNC Charlotte. New knowledge and creative works change the world and shape the future of the University. Charlotte values research in all its forms, including scholarly inquiry, discovery, exploration, innovation, entrepreneurship, creative activities, community engagement and/or interdisciplinary endeavors.

UNC Charlotte’s research endeavors are distinct:

  • Among the 229 public doctoral-granting research universities in the United States, 124 hold the Carnegie Community Engaged University classification. Carnegie’s community engagement classification signifies that UNC Charlotte collaborates with its larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in the context of partnership and reciprocity
  • UNC Charlotte is among the 80 public universities that have earned the APLU's Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation. The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities designation recognizes that UNC Charlotte has demonstrated a meaningful, ongoing and substantial commitment to economic and community development, growth and economic opportunity

Significant research activities are focused in UNC System recognized centers and institutes. And in 2023, Charlotte launched 12 new pilot centers to foster synergistic research initiatives. In 2022, Ventureprise became the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

New grant to support military veterans’ graduate studies


Professor’s augmented reality project will allow users to be ‘historians’


CCI professor receives NIH award for metabolomics study


CCI team creates cryptocurrency platform to win hackathon


Gropp, Signorelli honored for outstanding theses


UNC Charlotte, Gaston College, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College grow collaboration with NIH support


Student Union Gallery exhibition illuminates art historian’s research


NSF grant to fund engineering scholarships


Graduate student’s research on 1918 flu epidemic published in new book


Doctoral student studies soybeans to address poverty, hunger


Research study shows lasting value in play


Seven new student companies join 49er Foundry