General News

Alan Lessoff, professor of history, Illinois State University, will present “Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi, A Case Study in Southern and Southwestern Urban Regionalism” at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 15, in Fretwell Building, Room 114.

Lessoff was named the spring 2016 Obama Fellow at the Transnational Institute for American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

Trustee David Hauser says now is a great time for the state to invest in the $2 billion Connect NC bond measure.

A documentary that recounts the Cold War struggles of Mario Röllig, UNC Charlotte’s “College of Liberal Arts & Sciences eyewitness-in-residence,” will premiere during the 66th annual Berlin International Film Festival in mid-February. The documentary includes scenes filmed during a visit Röllig made to UNC Charlotte in 2014.

The six-minute University promotional film “Big Ideas, Big Future,” created by the Office of University Communications, recently received a national Gold MarCom Award for outstanding video by an educational institution.

“The Art of the Print,” organized by Erik Waterkotte and assistant professor in the Department of Art + Art History, is on display through Sunday, June 19, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

The College of Arts + Architecture lent the museum specialized tools used in the four major types of printmaking: relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing. In addition, the exhibit is displaying a worked woodblock and lithography stone with corresponding artwork printed from them by recent graduates Lauren Ernst and Andrew Steed.

Monday, Feb. 29, is the deadline to apply for the Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund.

The Council on University Community is accepting proposals for the fund, which supports initiatives that promote the daily value of diversity in the intellectual life of the campus. Faculty, staff or students are eligible to apply for awards of up to $5,000.

UNC Charlotte’s Camps on Campus offers children and young people the opportunity to join scientists, researchers, educators, writers and actors in the creative atmosphere of a college campus. Camp offerings this year include robotics, space exploration, Minecraft and smart art. More information about this year’s program can be found on the Camps on Campus website.

Gary Chapman, one of the world’s leading Christian marriage counselors, will discuss the keys to successful relationships in the talk “The Five Love Languages” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Cone University Center, McKnight Hall. The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life is sponsoring this free, public event. A book signing will follow the talk in the Cone Center, Lucas Room.

The Denver Broncos might have gotten the best of the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50, but UNC Charlotte came out on top against the University of Colorado Denver in a social media contest. At the end of the photo contest Feb. 5, UNC Charlotte had 14,206 likes, 8,818 shares and 1,861 comments, compared with UC Denver’s 4,580 likes, 1,349 shares and 609 comments.

The loser had to post a video with its mascot wearing Carolina Panthers garb: University of Colorado Denver.

The lunch-and-learn webinar “Becoming a Better Listener” will be from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 24.

Sponsored by the Human Resources Department, this online offering will address the differences between listening and hearing, outline the characteristics of a good listener and identify barriers to listening and how to overcome them.