Research

North Carolina BATT CAVE Research Center to accelerate innovations in batteries

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UNC Charlotte is leading the state in transformational energy research.

Finding a cure for cancer, one DNA damage pathway at a time

Shan Yan and his research group at UNC Charlotte conduct basic research to scout next targets in the battle against cancer.

This year, around 64,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of just 12%. That means in 2023 alone, around 50,000 Americans will die from the disease. One lab at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is trying to change those numbers, starting at the molecular level.

Alternatives to Violence implemented in Charlotte’s Beatties Ford neighborhood offers promise and lessons for preventing gun violence

Year-one evaluation by the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute outlines strengths and opportunities.

Data science students present sports analytics research at international conference

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UNC Charlotte students are using sports analytics to change how soccer players and coaches view the game. Recently, a group of students from the sports analytics program entered research projects into a global competition hosted by renowned sports data and analytics company Stats Perform.

UNC Charlotte wins inaugural NSF Engines Development Award to fund ‘Clean Carolinas’

UNC Charlotte is an inaugural recipient of up to $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program.

Transformational gift of up to $23 million to amplify UNC Charlotte’s national impact on literacy instruction

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The investment of up to $23 million will support PreK-5 literacy education through the Mebane Early Literacy Center.

Solving UNC Charlotte bird collisions one building at a time

Last spring, students at UNC Charlotte began raising awareness about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America – collisions with buildings and their squeaky clean glass. An estimated 100 million to one billion birds are killed in the United States each year due to colliding with buildings. 

NSF grant enables professors, students to research climate-resilient architecture in Tanzania

Assistant Professor of Architecture Liz McCormick and co-investigator Brett Tempest, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to engage students in McCormick’s continued research into climate-resilient architecture in tropical regions.

CCI’s Richard White receives NASA grant to explore how life formed on Earth

For the first time in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s nearly 80-year history, a faculty member has won a NASA Exobiology grant. Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics Richard Allen White III will use the ultra-competitive grant in his research on microbialites, a kind of “living rock” that could hold the key to how life formed on Earth.

NSF grants awarded CCI researchers to explore ways AI can aid aging population, patient diagnoses

Srijan Das and Xiang Zhang, two first-year faculty researchers in the College of Computing and Informatics, have received funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate how artificial intelligence can benefit older adults and others in health care settings.

Globally, the population aged 65 and older is growing. By 2050, the UN projects one in six people will exceed the age of 65. In North America and Europe, the number could be one in four.