General News

The UNC Charlotte 49er Alumni Forum, scheduled for Thursday, April 28, will bring successful alumni, many of whom have started their own small businesses in the greater Charlotte region, back to campus to share stories of their successes and failures, and they will offer advice to students and others on how to start a business.

“Alumni Entrepreneurs: Educated at Charlotte | Founded in Charlotte” will feature panelists Rachel Brown (’14), Bryan Delaney (’03), Torrie Savage (’05) and Brian Zapata (’03, ’07, ’12).

The Alumni Reunion Weekend, First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal ceremony and Leadership Charlotte are among the topics for the latest installment of the “Chancellor’s Fast Five.”

SmartAsset recently released its 2016 listing of North Carolina’s “Best Value Colleges,” and UNC Charlotte again came in the top 10.

The University held on to its sixth-place ranking on the list ahead of Davidson College, Appalachian State University, Campbell University and Wake Forest University.

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“Publicly Identified: Coming Out Activist in the Queen City,” curated by Joshua Burford, assistant director for sexual and gender diversity for the Multicultural Resource Center, received the second place honorable mention in the 2016 Allan Bérubé Prize.

Presented annually, the Bérubé Prize recognizes outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer history. Work from the previous two years is eligible for the honor.

The “Go Army” top fuel dragster show car will be on campus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in the Motorsports Research Lab.

Neal Strausbaugh, a chief mechanic for the Don Schumacher Racing team, will provide one-hour briefs and conduct question-and-answer sessions at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Conference USA bestows the Commissioner’s Academic Medal to student-athletes who achieve a cumulative 3.75 GPA or higher. For the 2015-16 academic year, 45 UNC Charlotte student-athletes were honored.

Charlotte 49ers softball and women’s soccer led the way; the teams had nine and seven members, respectively, achieve the honor. Also, 210 Charlotte 49ers were named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Role for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Two doctoral students from the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Adriano Schneider and Gregorio Linchangco, and visiting research scholar, Dennis Jacob Machado, were part of the winning team that participated in the Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in Boston.

An oval-shaped great lawn to provide opportunities for people to be around other people, along with a monumental water element and more “pocket” spaces for activities, amenities and gatherings were the major elements of the conceptual design revealed at the final Belk Plaza Forum, April 11.

“We created a palate that would accommodate just about anything. The functional flexibility of space reflects classic design and introduces contemporary expression,” stated Adam Martin, a LandDesign associate and UNC Charlotte alumnus.

John David Smith, the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, is the 2016 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award in recognition of excellence in research.

A ceremony was held Tuesday, April 12, at the Harris Alumni Center to formally honor Smith. Each year since 1987, the University with support from First Citizens Bank presents this award to recognize and foster the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and creative endeavors.

An ambitious six-year project to address all of Shakespeare’s plays before the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death comes to completion on Saturday, April 23, with “As We Like It” in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

Tackling six plays a year in formats ranging from lectures to full-blown theatrical productions, the “36 in 6 Project” has been an initiative of UNC Charlotte’s Shakespeare in Action.