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UNC Charlotte graduate admissions staff will host an online session to learn the basics about the admission process for applying to graduate certificates. A general overview of funding, fellowships, financial aid, and assistantships will be presented. Included in the session will be information on one of the newest graduate certificates, Workplace Competencies. A graduate certificate […]

Continuing and new undergraduate and graduate students were briefed on changes they will experience when they arrive for classes in the fall. In a letter, Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Joan Lorden explained that, while face-to-face classroom instruction will continue to be offered, many courses will blend face-to-face with remote instruction and others […]

Janies Machado In the webinar COVID-19: Understanding the Science Behind the Pandemic, Daniel Janies, Ph.D., Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, and Denis Jacob Machado, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Researcher, address the history and evolution of COVID-19, the current state of the pandemic, and what is ahead. To view a recording of the […]

By Dr. Jill Huerta Dr. Jill Huerta and Dr. Aura Young of the Center for Graduate Life (CGL) are recipients of a Career Guidance for Trainees grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund, which will support the launch of the STEM Communication Fellowship Program in the CGL. Huerta Young Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is a nonprofit organization […]

The Center for Graduate Life recently completed selection for the 2020-21 cohort of Graduate Life Fellows. Each year the Graduate School’s Center for Graduate Life (CGL) appoints a group of graduate student leaders to serve as Graduate Life Fellows (GLFs) to help create, promote and run events and initiatives for the graduate student body. For […]

The Center for Graduate Life will host a virtual orientation session for new graduate students from 10-11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 3. Through the orientation session, new students can get tips from current graduate students in a live Q&A session, plus have an opportunity to hear from Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds and Associate Dean For […]

Cato College of Education alumna Emily Wagoner, who was recognized recently as Cabarrus County’s Teacher of the Year, will be starting her masters in school administration in the fall at UNC Charlotte. Wagoner, who earned a dual degree in special education and elementary education in 2014, is a third-grade teacher at R. Brown McAllister Elementary. […]

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on life in the United States over the past couple of months and, some believe, it will bring fundamental change in the way we live in the future. Graduate students in a course examining changes in architectural production since the 19th century created some vivid images of […]

Janni Sorensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Science, and Melissa Anne Currie, Mississippi State Univeristy, , teamed up to produce the Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs award for 2020. The award, presented by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), was for their article, “Repackaged “urban renewal”: Issues of spatial equity and […]

Byron White will become UNC Charlotte’s Associate Provost for Urban Research and Community Engagement beginning August 1, 2020. He will lead the Office of Urban Research and Community Engagement, formerly called Metropolitan Studies. White joins the University from Cincinnati-based StrivePartnership, a group of leaders from the education, business, philanthropic, nonprofit, civic and grassroots communities in […]