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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 […]

A Durham, NC, based company co-founded by Namit Singh, 2012 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, has joined a partnership to provide public transit fleet electrification planning to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Microgrid Labs Inc., launched in 2015, will join Boston-based Enel X, an advanced energy services business of Italian multinational power provider Enel Group. The […]

Lara Vetter, professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, was presented with the 2020 Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award this week in a ceremony postponed from spring. The award honors her many contributions to student success and graduate program management. As director of graduate studies for the Department of English and […]

Currently enrolled master’s or doctoral students are invited to compete to win up to $500 in UNC Charlotte’s annual 3MT Three Minute Thesis competition. For fall 2020, the competiton goes virtual! Originating at the University of Queensland, Australia, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a professional international research communication competition, that celebrates the discoveries made […]

The Center for Graduate Life (CGL) has announced the names of the 2020-21 STEM Communication Fellows. The STEM Communication Fellows Program is aimed at improving communication skills among STEM scholars. Eight doctoral and postdoctoral scholars each year receive intense instruction and interaction on multiple communication formats ranging from policy papers to social media posts. Learn […]