College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

The Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) will host a public reception to share research by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) teachers and stories from those who participated in the 2019 Civil Rights/Racial Equity trip. This reception, which includes a poster presentation, is scheduled for 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5, at Johnson C. Smith University’s STEM Hall/New Science Building.

For the first time, UNC Charlotte will be a campus hub for the highly prestigious Millennium Fellowship program, with 20 undergraduates from across the University chosen to implement the program’s LIFE Skills Initiative with area high school students.

Researchers digging at UNC Charlotte’s ongoing archaeological excavation on Mount Zion in Jerusalem have announced a second significant discovery from the 2019 season–clear evidence of the Babylonian conquest of the city from 587/586 BCE.

Margaret Kocherga’s Instagram comes alive through the vivid photos and videos she posts, illustrating her life as a student in the Nanoscale Science Ph.D. Program at UNC Charlotte.

Misty Morin ’18 eventually plans to earn a doctorate, but first, the next destination in her journey is Spain, where she will share her love of language through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Harry Gilliard ’11 accompanied American University students to Havana, Cuba, in March, to study the intersections of culture, religion, history and economics. In 2020, he is heading to Brazil through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

The UNC Charlotte-led archaeological dig on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion has been going on for over a decade, and through stratigraphic evidence, the archaeologists have been able to confirm the 11th century date of the 17-meter-wide by 4-meter-deep ditch, which abutted the Fatimid city wall (built in the same place as the current wall near the current Zion Gate).

UNC Charlotte alumnus Michael “Seth” Flynn ’19 is bound for the Duke University School of Medicine, and he can add another accolade—one of Phi Kappa Phi’s most prestigious fellowships.

Flynn recently received the Marcus L. Urann Fellowship; this $20,000 award will help support Flynn’s medical school education. The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, only bestows six Urann Fellowships annually.

On the Fourth of July, many Americans will commemorate Independence Day looking to the sky, enthralled as beautiful explosions light up the night. Each firework involves a precisely orchestrated series of chemical processes.

Earlier this year, Steven Rogelberg discussed being a good steward of time as a meeting leader for the first-ever TEDxUNCCharlotte event. Now, his campus talk is being featured on the TED website.