College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau, associate professor of German, is the 2018 recipient of the International Education Faculty Award. The honor was presented at the 24th annual UNC Charlotte International Education Celebration, held in the Atkins Library Halton Reading Room.

Aliaga-Buchenau, also associate chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies, has been a UNC Charlotte faculty member since 2002. During her tenure, she has embraced international education in her teaching, service and research.

Joyce Dalsheim, a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Global Studies, was named a 2018 Luce/ACLS Fellow in Religion, Journalism and International Affairs.

She will use her ethnographic research in Israel/Palestine to engage in a critical examination of the relationship between sovereignty and liberation, focusing on questions of religion and religious freedom. Her work adds new perspective to a broad set of interdisciplinary conversations on secularism and citizenship in the modern world.

Academically talented, economically disadvantaged students who want to study biological sciences can find life-changing opportunities through a new regional partnership among UNC Charlotte, Gaston College and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.

Charter Schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are directly and indirectly undermining school district efforts to desegregate public schools, according to a new study released by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA with researchers at UNC Charlotte.

This past fall, Karen Cox, professor of history, was interviewed for the story “How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history,” published on the Vox website.

As part of the story, Cox was featured in a roughly seven-minute video that outlined how the United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War. Since the video was posted to the Vox YouTube site in October 2017, it has recorded 1,004,685 views and counting.

In September 2017, the master’s thesis “Internal Activism and Its Implications for Organizational Legitimacy: A Case Study of the NBA’s Reaction to the National Anthem Protests in Sports” was one of the top 25 accessed through the ProQuest website.

Corey Kelly, a graduate student in communication studies, wrote the thesis, under the director of Daniel Grano.

For the first time, researchers have evidence of exactly what dads are doing while moms are taking care of housework or tending to their child. The results will be disappointing for those who expected more gender equity in modern society.

The study found that three months after the birth of their first child, on days when couples were not working, men were most often relaxing while women did housework or child care. In contrast, when men were taking care of the kids or working around the house, their partners were most often doing the same thing.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently discovered a new class of molecules with exceptional fluorescent properties. Applications for the new compounds, called thiazolothiazole (TTz) viologens, are infinitely adaptable, including properties that make them potentially useful in OLED televisions and as biomolecular sensors for human cells.

The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens will hold a free lecture/demonstration on how to create outdoor planters that look great from October through April.

Greenhouse Manager Tammy Blume and Botanical Gardens Horticulturist Ed Davis will share their secrets for planting and maintaining beautiful mixed planters that thrive in the cooler months during the “Brown-Bag Botanicals: Fabulous Fall Containers” 

Dear Students and Colleagues,
We lost a member of our University community this weekend. Jeannine Skinner, assistant professor of gerontology/psychology in the Department of Psychological Science, passed away at age 35.