General News

Ulrick Edmonds is the outside linebackers coach for the Charlotte 49ers football team. Edmonds, who served as the quality control director for N.C. State’s football program for the past two years, was a long-time assistant at James Madison University, his alma mater. He also had a short stint as linebackers coach at Old Dominion University.

Mitchell Daratony, SGA president, talks about how the bond package will benefit science education at the University.

Investigating how to advance the practice of teaching to enhance students’ learning is the impetus for research grants offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Recently, grant recipients for eight funded projects shared their work at the second annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Research Showcase.

Learn more about UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), a state-of-the-art facility for energy-related research and education. EPIC’s industry-education partnerships unite students, faculty and industrial partners to collaborate on interdisciplinary research and learning.

The Belk Gym pool, which measures half of an Olympic-sized pool at 25 meters long and 22 meters wide, has reopened for use. Pool improvements include new tile lane markers, lighting and ventilation, an improved pool deck and bleacher area and on-deck showers and restrooms. Additional improvements were made to the main drains and tile work around the pool deck during renovations.

Thought leader April Rinne, an expert on shareable cities, will discuss “The Sharing Economy in the Urban Millennium” at 2 p.m., Thursday, March 24, in the Cone University Center McKnight Hall. This presentation is for the University’s TIAA Lecture Series.

Rinne is an advisor and guide on the sharing economy, the concept of a peer-based sharing of access to goods and services, coordinated through community-based resources. Examples include car sharing, the rental of apartments/houses and even the sharing of one’s talents and skills.

Faculty members from two universities in Nigeria and a professor from Davidson College will be guest speakers for a spring lecture series organized by the University’s African Studies Academy.

Enajite Ojaruega, senior lecturer, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria, will present “Songs Only Women Sing: Female Struggle with Identity in African Traditional and Modern Poetry” at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, March 24. Ojaruega researches African women and conflict in literature and gender studies.

David Broome, vice chancellor and general counsel for the University, was named an outstanding general counsel by the Charlotte Business Journal. He and 21 other top lawyers for the region were recognized at a special event held recently at the Myers Park Country Club.

Broome was selected in the category of general counsel in a department with between two and 10 attorneys.

The J. Murrey Atkins Library is hosting the traveling exhibition “From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry.”

 Produced by the National Library of Medicine, in cooperation with the National Museum of American History, the display explores some of the processes, problems and potential of technologies that use microbes.

Work to extend the CATS Blue Line onto campus continues, and beginning in the next days and for the next several months, construction will impact the UNC Charlotte campus, particularly at Institute Circle. As with all construction, weather may change the projected schedules for the below phases of the project.