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Alyssa Martin

Alyssa Martin Earns 2025 Council of Southern Graduate Schools Master’s Thesis Award

Her thesis, "The 'Disposable Others'," examines modern colonialism in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
   January 28, 2025

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Architecture students’ photo wins award in U.S. Energy Department contest

   January 28, 2025

Indya Barginere and Violet Drinkwater, students in the Ravin School of Architecture, won an award in the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored photo contest “Framing the Future: Industrial Technologies.”

For the national contest, professional and amateur photographers submitted photos of the innovative technologies, processes and people that will increase competitiveness of the U.S....

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Charlotte tapped again to host NC Principal Fellows

   January 23, 2025
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AI Meets Immunology: Reimagining Personalized Medicine

Charlotte researchers develop Artificial Intelligence-Cell to design precision interventions
   January 20, 2025

By Anna Holt
Photography by Kat Lawrence

Imagine that...

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The Power of Positivity and a Mighty Pen

Award-winning Niner Times reporter Bryson Foster ’23 is writing his way to sports journalism success
   January 16, 2025

Bryson Foster ’23 can pinpoint the moment he became a lifelong sports fan. Summer 2009, Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark, Reds vs. Nationals. Outfielder Jonny Gomes whacked three home runs, a thrill that cemented for 9-year-old Bryson a decision to cheer for the Reds forever. His first major league ball game ignited a passion that continues to grow.

The backdrop for the trip Foster...

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Art history professor named associate dean for research

   January 13, 2025

Jae Emerling is the new associate dean for research in the College of Arts + Architecture. This three-year appointment was effective with the start of the spring 2025 semester.

As associate dean for research, Emerling will support the college’s research initiatives (both graduate and...

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Belk College researcher named top in nation, fourth globally in family business field

   January 10, 2025
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William Tolone Named Dean of Charlotte's Graduate School

Tolone joins the Graduate School from the College of Computing and Informatics
   January 9, 2025

William “Bill” Tolone has been named Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at UNC Charlotte. His appointment was approved in December, and he began the role Jan. 1, 2025. Previously, Tolone was an associate dean and professor in the College of Computing and Informatics.

“His leadership on multi-institutional research initiatives and in administrative roles has...

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State of the Heart

A grad school romance led to a med-tech breakthrough that may save the lives of millions of patients
   January 8, 2025

On a brisk spring morning in 2018, Saravana ’03 M.S. and Katherine ’03 M.S., ’05 Ph.D. Kumar said goodbye to their two young children and left their home in Minnesota on one of the most high-stakes road trips of their lives. Their destination was a hospital in Quebec City where a 77-year-old patient was preparing to undergo surgery for a chronic heart condition.

The patient had never...

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Driven to Innovate

Entrepreneur Igor Jablokov is reducing the distance between people and information through AI
   January 8, 2025

As Facebook, Google and smartphones were becoming more ubiquitous in society, the one-time IBM research engineer and program director Igor Jablokov ’01 MBA stood on a stage before an audience, opened a Motorola Razr flip phone and began to speak....

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