General News

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 […]

UNC Charlotte’s Master of Public Administration program is waiving for Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 applicants the requirement of an appropriate score on the Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical sections of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). “Our MPA program offers options for building careers with non-profit, government, arts and similar organizations,” Barth said. “To help people […]

Dr. Sharon L. Gaber today becomes the fifth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She currently serves as president of The University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and is nationally recognized educator. “The graduate education community at UNC Charlotte warmly welcomes Dr. Gaber,” said Tom Reynolds, Associate Provost and Dean of the […]

Margaret Kocherga, Ph.D., Nanoscale Science, was selected to join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory. She will begin the two-year program in June. Her work through CRI will focus on the development of a single robust material to create higher-efficiency cost-effective OLEDS (Organic Light […]

Patrick Bounds and Marc Duemmler, Mechanical Engineering students in the Lee College of Engineering, recently were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Since the program began in 1952, more than 35,000 fellows have been […]

Lauren Austin, Public Policy, was invited to an interview on WFAE’s Charlotte Talks, Feb. 21 at 9.m. The following is is the station’s description of the event: A stay-at-home order is in place. Medical equipment is hard to find. There’s an illness causing flu-like symptoms, and it spreads easily. The year is 1918. Today’s coronavirus […]

Lara Vetter, professor of English, was selected to receive this year’s Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for her contributions to student success and enrollment management. The award comes with $1,000, an engraved plaque and the recipient’s name engraved on a perpetual trophy on display in the Graduate School. “Our Graduate Program Directors comprise faculty who […]

Nitika, doctoral student, Biological Sciences. Nitika, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, and Caroline Brinegar, MA, Geography, were recently designated UNC Charlotte’s most Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA). The pair were recognized remotely as part of the University’s effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Each received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, which includes $1,000 and a plaque. […]