General News

Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber will host four Breakfast with the Chancellor sessions for faculty and staff during the 2024-25 academic year, starting Thursday, Sept. 5. These informal sessions give Gaber an opportunity to hear what’s on the minds of UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, answer questions and discuss topics of interest with them. Each monthly […]

Bernadette Donovan-Merkert has been named the founding dean of the College of Science after serving in the role for more than a year as interim. Her appointment, approved by the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees, is effective Aug. 15. “Bernadette has spent her career at Charlotte supporting our students, leading faculty, promoting innovative research and […]

The UNC Board of Governors appointed Malcolm Butler, dean of the Cato College of Education, to serve on the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Commission. His term, which began in July, is through June 30, 2026. The commission is tasked with establishing selection criteria, procedures and awardees for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, which is […]

Dear Niner Nation,  As you likely know, on May 23, 2024, the UNC System Board of Governors voted to repeal and replace the Policy on Diversity and Inclusion Within the University of North Carolina (Policy 300.8.5) with a new policy, Equality Within the University of North Carolina. This new policy requires offices and positions at […]

UNC Charlotte’s School of Nursing is among 12 UNC System public universities to receive dedicated funding to address North Carolina’s nursing workforce shortage. The recently distributed UNC System grants, funded by the North Carolina General Assembly as part of last year’s state budget, are designed to help public universities produce more nursing graduates.  Susan McLennon, professor and director of Charlotte’s School of […]

A new podcast series from UNC Charlotte’s Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks titled “de-CIPHERing Infectious Disease” aims to unravel the complexities of infectious diseases and environmental risks through conversations with leading experts.  As a University research center, CIPHER unites experts from the colleges of Computing and Informatics, Health and Human […]

Dhairya Desai, a rising senior and Levine Scholar, is among the 2024-25 recipients of the Newman Civic Fellowship. Awarded by Campus Compact, the fellowship is a yearlong program that recognizes students for their leadership potential and commitment to creating positive change in communities; it is named for the late Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact’s […]

If you are on campus this summer, you might notice new dumpsters and trucks. On Monday, July 1, the University’s waste-hauling contracts that split services between two companies took effect. Crown Waste and Recycling Systems LLC, a female-owned, Charlotte-based company servicing Mecklenburg and surrounding counties, is emptying campus trash dumpsters. Republic Services is continuing to […]

This year’s Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients are Monica Rasmussen ’24 Ph.D. and Providence Adu ’24 Ph.D. Rasmussen’s dissertation, “The Influence of Time, Rock Properties and Climate on Mechanical Weathering,” provides a comprehensive field, laboratory and modeling analysis of rock cracking under natural environmental conditions over hundreds of thousands of years. Her research determined […]

Thomas Schmidt’s large-scale artwork “Connected” has been installed in Duke Energy Plaza, the company’s headquarters in uptown Charlotte. Schmidt employed student and alumni assistants in the creation of “Connected.” The 75-foot wall installation is composed of 175 porcelain panels and 50 mirrors and is based on a map of Charlotte’s electrical grid. “I was interested […]