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Durham, NC-based Microgrid Labs recently was selected by the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Incubatenergy® Labs program as one of 20 startup companies that will conduct accelerated demonstrations of their technologies with utilities and EPRI as part of Incubatenergy Labs’ 2021 Cohort. Microgrid, co-founded by Namit Singh, 2012 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, was chosen from more […]

The Center for Graduate Life (CGL) recently announced the 2021-22 Graduate Life Fellows (GLF), a group of graduate student leaders who help create, promote and run events and initiatives for the graduate student body. GLFs serve as ambassadors and advocates for graduate students and provide a connection between the students and the Center for Graduate […]

UNC Charlotte’s Storrs Gallery was dedicated to professor emeritus and founding College of Arts + Architecture dean Ken Lambla in a May 14 ceremony. Lambla joined the UNC Charlotte architecture faculty in 1983, becoming chair in 1998 and dean of the College of Architecture (now the School of Architecture) in 2002. Read more at the […]

The Belk College of Business’ MBA was named a “Tier 1” program for North American universities in the newly released 2021 CEO Magazine Global MBA Rankings. This is the sixth consecutive year the program has achieved Tier 1 ranking. Read more at the Belk College of Business.

Ahad Dewan Mohammed Abdul Ahad, PhD Electrical Engineering, and Dylan Turner, PhD Geography, each have been awarded the Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Doctoral Fellowship which provides $18,500 plus tuition and insurance beginning in the fall. Recipients of the Cato Award, one of 13 Graduate School donor funded fellowships, also receive tuition and health insurance […]

More than 220 graduate and professional administrators and faculty from around the country participated in the 2021 Graduate Student Success and Wellness conference (GSSW2021) hosted virtually by UNC Charlotte on May 6-7. The conference theme, Graduate Student Success and Wellness, focused on innovative and best practices to help students thrive. This conference was conceived by […]

Kaitlyn Holshouser, (left) Curriculum & Instruction-Urban Elementary Education, and Jules Maguire, English, recently received the respective Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record award in the Graduate School’s 2020-21 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. The two were selected from 31 nominees. Holshouser was selected for the innovative ways she embeds concepts into course activities to give […]

The Graduate School recently awarded donor-supported graduate fellowships to 17 UNC Charlotte students, representing a broad cross section of academic programs. The 2021-22 recipients were selected from among 987 applications, up more than 250 from 2020. Established to support exceptionally talented and committed graduate students, the Graduate School offers a variety of fellowships for program […]

UNC Charlotte’s annual #NinerNationGives 49 hours of fundraising Apr. 5-9 raised over $2 million with $22,391 to benefit students through graduate fellowships and the Center for Graduate Life services. Julie Green, Graduate Student Services and Fellowship Specialist, was selected by drawing to receive a hand-made Niner quilt donated by Claudia Reynolds, wife of Graduate School […]

A report just released by Charlotte-based Stratifyd spots key trends in a dramatically increasing number of consumer complaints about financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stratifyd, an AI-powered customer data analytics company, is headed by Derek Wang, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2011, the company’s founder and CEO. Wang is also a professor of Computer Science at […]