General News
49ers4Life Blood Drive expands to two days
The 2019 49ers4Life Blood Drive is a two-day affair, and campus organizers and sponsors anticipate this change will enable the University to reach its goal of 1,000 pints of blood collected. This year’s drive, which is being held in conjunction with the American Red Cross, will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 29-30, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center.
Online nursing programs rise in national rankings
The UNC Charlotte School of Nursing’s online master’s programs jumped 13 spots in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings and remain in the top 50 percent of programs nationally. The programs ascended to 62 in the national rankings, up from 75 last year.
Queens University professor to kick off 2019 Great Decisions series
Alexa Royden, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Queens University, will present “Cyber Conflict and Geopolitics” at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at UNC Charlotte Center City. This presentation is the first in the University’s 2019 Great Decisions Lecture Series.
Call for alumni award nominations
The UNC Charlotte Alumni Association is actively seeking nominations for its 2019 awards class. The deadline to submit a nomination for this year is Friday, Jan. 25.
Levine Jewish Community Center recognizes Cato College of Education
The UNC Charlotte Cato College of Education has received the 2018 Yachad Award from the Levine Jewish Community Center for the college’s work in support of the city of Charlotte. The award recognizes UNC Charlotte and the center’s collaborative work on a summer camp designed to help struggling students improve their reading while enjoying the fun and games of traditional summer camps.
Penn State professor to talk mourning spaces for the living
Mariana Ortega, an associate professor at Penn State University, will present “Memento Vivere: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory and the Border” at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Atkins Library Halton Reading Room.
Local civil rights pioneer to deliver keynote address at annual MLK Celebration
Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was among the first African American students to integrate Harding High School in 1957. Now, more than 60 years later, she will discuss this historic moment as the keynote speaker for UNC Charlotte’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Witherspoon Lecture to explore ‘Shamans and Schizophrenia’
An anthropologist who focuses on the edge of experience—on voices, visions, the supernatural and the world of psychosis—will deliver the 35th Loy P. Witherspoon Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Tanya Maria Luhrmann, often cited as T.M. Luhrmann, is the Watkins University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. As this year’s Witherspoon lecturer, she will discuss “Shamans and Schizophrenia: How Religious Practice May Change Psychotic Experience.”
Charlotte 49ers 2019 football schedule released, season tickets on sale
The Charlotte 49ers 2019 football schedule includes six contests against 2018 bowl teams, including a trip to National Champion Clemson. The 49ers’ 12-game slate includes six home games and six road games with four non-conference matchups and eight Conference USA contests.
Charlotte will play all six C-USA East Division opponents and two cross-over games against West Division foes under first-year head coach Will Healy.
Nurse Anesthesia Program grads achieve 100 percent pass rate on national exam
Graduates of the UNC Charlotte/Carolinas Medical Center Nurse Anesthesia Program recently obtained a 100 percent first-time taker’s pass rate on the National Certification Exam for the Class of 2018.