College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

At the University of Jos, Africana Studies professor Honore Missihoun plans to teach and analyze texts from Francophone countries in Africa to better understand how the exploitation of women, land and natural resources resulted from patriarchal and male-dominated societies.

Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, had the work “At Home, Away from Home: A Memoir” published by Cissus World Press.

The work reflects on the plight of the former African colonial subject, now postcolonial citizen, caught in the torrents of displacement and emplacement by the forces of global empires. As a member of the global literati and a celebrated professor in North America who originally is from the Niger Delta (Nigeria), Ojaide embodies the complications, promises and contradictions of post-coloniality.

Heather Ann Thompson, a former UNC Charlotte faculty member, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in history for “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy.”

Thompson, currently a professor at the University of Michigan, was a member of the History Department from 1997 to 2009.

She returned to the Queen City in November 2016 to discuss “Blood in the Water” for a public event sponsored by the University’s Center for the Study of the New South, housed in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

UNC Charlotte researchers have examined more than a million tweets sent during the protests of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte in September 2016. This research holds implications for understanding the role of cluster tweets and other public relations strategies in relation to online activism.

As temperatures spike each spring, mosquitos start to swarm. They bring with them an increased risk of mosquito-borne diseases and a need to understand how to guard against these pesky – and at times –dangerous insects. Researchers at UNC Charlotte and the Mecklenburg County Health Department are collaborating on a study to determine which factors in the environment lead to hotspots of mosquito activity

James Tabor, professor of religious studies, is one of the presenters for the program “Last Days of Jesus,” which airs on PBS Tuesday, April 4, with rebroadcasts Wednesday and Thursday, April 5-6.

Kristin Newby, a professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, will present “Food and Precision Medicine in the Context of the MURDOCK Study” at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 5, in Cone University Center, Room 113.

The Department of Global, International and Area Studies and the Department of Psychology, housed in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, received approval to become the Department of Global Studies and the Department of Psychological Science, beginning with the spring 2017 semester.

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, a postdoctoral researcher for the Center for Genomics and Society at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will present the workshop “Return of Results in Psychiatric Genomics Research: Challenges and Potential Solutions” at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Cone University Center, Room 111.

Seating is limited for this event; reservations accepted on a first-come, first-served basis online through Feb. 10.

Two on-campus entities have partnered to use grant money to improve student experiences and outcomes across North Carolina.