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Professor Creates Artwork for New Duke Energy Headquarters

   August 28, 2024

Thomas Schmidt’s 75-foot “Connected” echoes Charlotte’s electrical grid.

Employing student and alumni assistants, art professor Thomas Schmidt has created and installed a magnificent large-scale work in the Duke Energy Plaza, the company’s new headquarters at 525 South Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte. The 75-foot wall installation, comprised of some 175 porcelain panels and 50 mirrors...

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SDS Welcomes Agus Sudjianto as the New Executive in Residence

   August 27, 2024

Agus Sudjianto, a highly accomplished risk management and quantitative methods expert with extensive experience in the financial services industry, is becoming an Executive in Residence for the School of Data Science. He will also be co-teaching a class on MLM with Professor Robert Fox this fall...

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UNC Charlotte Graduate School Located in the Reese Building

The Reese building, first floor is the permanent location to serve the UNC Charlotte community.
   August 26, 2024

The Graduate School reception desk and Graduate Admissions recruitment team have moved to the first floor of the Reese building, centrally located on the UNC Charlotte campus.

This relocation aims to better serve the graduate student community and prospective students by providing...

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Joe Campos Named Recruitment Assistant Director

   August 26, 2024

Joseph Campos, formerly Associate Director of Admissions for Queens University, has joined the Graduate School as Assistant Director of Recuitment.

Campos has over 20 years of experience in enrollment management, workforce development, and global partnerships. He will lead efforts to expand and strengthen Charlotte’s graduate international recruitment and enrollment strategies.

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Charlotte Receives Global Recognition for Sustainability Impact

   August 26, 2024

UNC Charlotte was recognized again by Times Higher Education for its commitment to sustainability.

For THE’s 2024 International Impact Rankings, released June 12, Charlotte ranks in six categories including: 

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Architectural History Professor Receives Grant From Graham Foundation

   August 21, 2024

Emily Makaš, associate professor of architectural history, is a recipient of a 2024 grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She and her research partner Arthur J. Clement, will use the $10,000 grant for archival research toward the book project, “...

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Graduate Students Elevate Teaching Skills with Future Faculty Fellowship Program

Reynolds CGLL Offers Enhanced Learning and Support for Aspiring Faculty
   August 21, 2024

Graduate students interested in a teaching career will get a boost from the new Future Faculty Fellowship program recently launched by the Thomas L. Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning.

The program's first cohort of 10...

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Belk College Researchers Seek to Enhance Technology’s Benefits, Lower Risks

   August 20, 2024

Technology – for all its benefits – sometimes sparks unintended challenges that require new ideas to solve. Solutions of this kind – grounded in research that advances technology’s positive aspects and reduces its risks for individuals and organizations – are exactly what Dongsong...

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10,000th Rehabilitated Raptor Released on Campus

   August 16, 2024

The College of Science hosted the Carolina Raptor Center as they released their 10,000th rehabilitated raptor on Saturday, Aug. 10. The red-tailed hawk spent 58 days in CRC’s hospital facility and was released into the trees at the...

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Access to Single-Family Rental Homes in Higher-Quality School Zones Drives Educational Gains

Structural change in housing benefits children, interdisciplinary research suggests
   August 14, 2024

When families with low and moderate incomes can rent single-family homes in communities zoned for higher quality schools, their children see improved achievements in school, according to new research by UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business Assistant Professor of Economics Kelly Vosters and colleague Thomas Mayock.

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