Scholarship and Academic Life

Tamara Williams, associate professor of dance, and Carolina Quintana Ocampo ’21 are among the 2025 cohort of the Arts & Science Council’s Emerging Creator and Creative Renewal Fellowship recipients. Williams will use a Creative Renewal Fellowship grant of $15,000 to augment her dance research and performance practice with the study of Yoruba drumming. She will travel […]

Gracing Truist Center Plaza on Tryon Street is a new art installation created collaboratively by UNC Charlotte art professors Thomas Schmidt and Erik Waterkotte. The installation is a printed, site-specific mural that adorns the existing panels ofthe Truist Center building; it is visible from the plaza and ­­the tower above in the heart of uptown Charlotte. Schmidt and Waterkotte […]

Taufik Kareem Jamal Abdul-Jaleel’s play “High Standards” will be performed as part of the 2025 New South Young Playwrights Festival at Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta.  Abdul-Jaleel is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Productions with a minor in theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems with a minor in operations and […]

When most people think of translating, they may think of key phrases necessary when visiting a foreign country. Often, that work is simplified through free translator apps, helping travelers navigate language barriers. That process, however, is far from the work of professional literary translators, including the award-winning work of Asa Yoneda, UNC Charlotte instructor of […]

With a new gift of $24.9 million, The Leon Levine Foundation is expanding its enduring support for the Levine Scholars Program, UNC Charlotte’s signature merit-based scholarship that attracts top-tier high school students from across the country. “This program continues to reflect the very best of what higher education can offer — opportunity, leadership and the […]

UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars Program has selected 20 exceptional young leaders from across the United States for the 16th class of the University’s most competitive academic scholarship. The scholars will join UNC Charlotte in fall 2025. The University’s premier merit-based scholarship is valued at approximately $124,000 per North Carolina student and $187,000 for each student […]

Janaka B. Lewis,  associate dean of curriculum and success and professor of English in the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, has been selected to join the 2025-26 class of Fellows for the American Council on Education. She is one of 25 Fellows chosen from a nationwide pool to identify emerging leaders in higher […]

By Bryson Foster ’23 For Army ROTC Cadet Betty Nguy, a passion for the military was ignited with a desire to provide for her family. Nguy, whose parents immigrated to the United States from South Vietnam, moved their family to Charlotte from Portland, Oregon, when she was very young. “I grew up in a low-income […]

Marissa Nesbit, associate professor of dance education, and dance education student Chloe Gosline co-authored “Finding Truths Through Fiction: Reflecting on Young Adult Literature in Dance Educator Preparation,” recently published in the journal Dance Education in Practice. The article explores the value of incorporating young adult novels into the curriculum for the course Dance Education Methods […]

Five UNC Charlotte students received funding to cover their spring 2025 tuition as winners of the University Career Center’s fourth annual Niner Career Challenge. The winners of the grand prize drawing were Grace Asaad, a junior computer science major; India Clark, a senior exercise science major; Ranaroath Mey, a senior health systems management major; Abhilash […]