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UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) Dean Fatma Mili recently was named North Carolina Technology Association (NC Tech) 2020 Tech Educator of the Year. The NC Tech Award recognizes the best in North Carolina’s tech community and raises money to support NC Tech’s Education Foundation. Read more at the College of Computing and […]

Jason Black, chair of the Department of Communication Studies, recently received Fulbright award support for a cross-cultural study of the indigenous mascotting controversy in Canadian and U.S. sports. Read More at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

UNC Charlotte will hold a virtual commencement ceremony for all May, August and December 2020 undergraduate and graduate students on Friday, Jan. 8,. The ceremony link will be available on the commencement website beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8. The ceremony pre-show will begin at 5:49 p.m. and will highlight some video messages […]

The UNC Charlotte Urban Institute has launched a podcast series focusing on projectsions for the next few decades of change in Charlotte. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

Kristin Davin, associate professor, Foreign Language Education, recently received the Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The Papalia award recognizes excellence in the preparation and continuing education of foreign language teachers. Read more in Inside UNC Charlotte.

Join the Graduate School in congratulating the doctoral class of 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions in the state, the University was unable to host a hooding ceremony for them. Instead, we asked candidates to record a short segment of themselves being safely hooded by a family member, friend or their advisor. These newly minted PhD’s […]

A UNC Charlotte academic paper calling for greater institutional responsibility in policing research authorship issues was published in Science and Engineering Ethics. In the paper, “Authorship Policies at U.S. Doctoral Universities: A Review and Recommendations for Future Policies,” researchers Lisa Rasmussen, George Banks and others found that few doctoral-granting institutions have published policies for dealing […]

An exploration into how the home air conditioner can play a role in preventing a power outage won first place for Akintonde Abbas, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the 2020 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition coordinated by the Center for Graduate Life (CGL). Other top presenters in this year’s competition included Amanda Sargent, Ph.D., Organizational […]

UNC Charlotte was selected among the top 100 most military-friendly colleges in the US by OnlineU, a firm that provides informational guides for students. Colleges that made the rankings participate in the government Tuition Assistance program and were scored based on the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs ratings for military culture, support, financial aid and […]

Optical Science and Engineering doctoral student Shohreh Shadalou is one of five award winners in Synopsys’ 2020 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. Shadalou competed against graduate and undergraduate students from across North America. Other winners are students from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and the University of Rochester. Shadalou’s project […]