General News

Bruce Taylor, an associate professor in the College of Education Department of Reading and Elementary Education, is among the 2016 recipients of the Governor’s Volunteer Service Award.

This honor, created in 1979, recognizes individuals, groups and businesses that make a significant contribution to their community through volunteer service.

Taylor was nominated by the United Way of Central Carolinas for his work with the United Way’s Project 1,000 effort.

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.

Through the combined efforts of more than 75 volunteers, several truckloads of trash and recyclables were disposed safely via the recent spring campus cleanup.

“Campus cleanup provides us with the perfect opportunity to put the University’s commitment to being stewards of the environment into action” said Tyler Sytsma, University sustainability coordinator.

Each semester, the Facilities Management Office coordinates the campus cleanup, and employees receive release time to volunteer. Roughly 150 pounds of trash and recyclables were collected during this semester’s event.

The Charlotte 49ers will hold the fourth annual Green-White Spring Football Game at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 23, at Jerry Richardson Stadium. The game, which marks the end of the spring 2016 practice season, is open to the public.

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.”

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.

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.

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.