General News

The Counseling Center will sponsor talks at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, April 13 and 27, in the Student Union Movie Theatre.

Each event will feature two speakers with aspects of resiliency as a focus of the talks; these events are free to students, faculty, staff and the public. For students, these workshops are Wellness Passport events.

Through a partnership between UNC Charlotte and the Levine Museum of the New South, faculty, staff, students and alumni will be able to visit the museum for free Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, during the museum’s regular business hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Professor of Theatre Bruce Auerbach is the co-editor of the second edition of “Practical Projects for Teaching Lighting Design: A Compendium, Volume 2,” published by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Inc. (USITT) in 2016.

The book, a collection of practical lab projects that can be used in a lighting class, was edited with Anne McMills and is a project of the USITT Lighting Design and Technology Commission. Auerbach was the sole editor of the first edition of the book, which was published in 1990.

The UNC Charlotte School of Social Work graduate program has climbed into the top 25 percent nationally in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The Master of Social Work degree program moved up 12 spots on this year’s list, from 68 to 56; 234 schools offer graduate degrees in social work nationwide.

“Our jump in the rankings reflects social work faculty members’ reputations for high quality, nationally relevant scholarship and teaching,” said MSW program director Bob Herman-Smith.

For innovative teaching methods that extend well beyond a traditional classroom setting, Joanne Maguire Robinson, chair of the Religious Studies Department, has received the 2016 American Academy of Religion Excellence in Teaching Award.

Since joining the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1996, Robinson has focused on how students engage with the classroom environment. She sees the job of a teacher as creating an environment that helps students leave as more informed, more reflective and more capable and resourceful thinkers.

Wednesday, April 6, is National Walking Day as designated by the American Heart Association. The Advisory Committee to the Chancellor for Employee Health and Wellness is coordinating a group walk to encourage faculty and staff members to live longer, stronger, healthier lives. The American Heart Association recommends at least 150 minutes of physical activity per week for adults and 60 minutes per day for children and adolescents.

Starting at 4:30 p.m., April 6, employees will meet at the entrance of Belk Gym for a 30-minute group walk.

The UNC Charlotte Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) will be in two residencies this spring in the Charlotte area. From Friday, April 8, through Monday, April 18, MAX will be on the front lawn of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation on North Tryon Street. Beginning Saturday, April 30, MAX will be in east Charlotte on the property of Aldersgate, a continuing care retirement community on Shamrock Drive, for an entire month of activity.

For the majority of girls born into poverty in the Charlotte region, they will have a harder time breaking out of that economic state. UNC Charlotte’s Women + Girls Research Alliance (W+GRA) is bringing researchers and the community together to explore improving economic mobility opportunities for women as the focus of its 2016 W+GRA Summit.

A day-and-a-half event, the 2016 W+GRA Summit will be Thursday and Friday, April 14-15. Registration is through April 8; space is limited.

To members of the UNC Charlotte community:

We have received many questions about the meaning of House Bill 2, passed last week by the General Assembly.

Now in its third year at UNC Charlotte, the “Thank You Card” recognition program continues to grow in size and impact. Beginning in 2013, Chancellor Philip L. Dubois sent 631 thank you cards to members of UNC Charlotte’s faculty and staff who were nominated by graduating seniors on the 2012-13 Senior Survey.

Earlier this year, 721 faculty and staff members received thank you cards.