Student Life

UNC Charlotte will commemorate the life, work and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a three-day celebration that includes a keynote address by award-winning writer Omar Tyree, a day of service and a film screening.
The 2013 celebration theme is “A Dream Attained, Deferred or Abandoned? An Examination of the 50 Years Since the March on Washington.” Tyree will speak about this topic at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

Seniors from the Lee College of Engineering will present their year-long senior projects at the college’s Senior Design Exposition scheduled for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, in the food court of Halton Arena in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center.

Yujie Lin, a doctoral student in computing and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, will defend “Exploratory Visualization of Graphs Based on Community Structure” at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Jing Yang is the dissertation advisor.

David Askay, a Ph.D. student in organizational science, has received one of the most prestigious national research awards presented to students doing communication studies research.
 The National Communication Association (NCA) presents the Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for the top-ranked student-authored paper from all NCA units that competitively rank papers for programming at the NCA annual convention.

The exhibit “Four Directions: A Journey Through Native American Art” is on display through Friday, Nov. 30, in the Student Union Art Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The exhibit’s theme centers on the relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American art forms. Native American artists from Southwest, Plains and Eastern tribes contributed work to the show. UNC Charlotte student artists also are featured.

UNC Charlotte’s 11th annual Multicultural Leadership Conference is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, in the Cone University Center.
The conference attracts nearly 250 students from the Southeast to explore diversity and leadership. Workshops are led by graduate students, staff members, faculty and advisors from UNC Charlotte and visiting universities. Registration is $20 for UNC Charlotte students and $75 for non-UNC Charlotte students open now through the date of the conference.