General News

The Hunter and Stephanie Edwards Promenade, which houses the University, coaches and media boxes and broadcast booths at Jerry Richardson Stadium, honors a generous contribution from a pair of proud UNC Charlotte alumni.

“This is a major commitment from this couple, and it will have a major impact,” said Chancellor Philip L. Dubois. “To achieve our goals (in football), we knew we would need the support of generous donors. It is especially meaningful today that the two individuals we are honoring are both graduates of this institution.”

The Charlotte 49ers football game against Temple University scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2, in Richardson Stadium, will be televised, and University leaders anticipate a large crowd for this event. Traffic is expected to increase significantly in the early afternoon as thousands of fans arrive for the game.

The University will observe the following plan for the Oct. 2 game day:

CLASSES AND LABS

Classes are not canceled when the University is required to host weekday football games.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), one of the largest and longest-running surveys of America’s health and nutritional status, established an outpost on UNC Charlotte’s campus this summer. NHANES field teams conducted more than 300 in-home interviews across the area, and about the same number visited the mobile examination center on campus for a comprehensive physical exam.

Yi Deng, dean of the College of Computing and Informatics, recently received the CIO Award for Academic Leadership from the Charlotte Business Journal.

Deng, along with a number of other Charlotte-area chief information officers, were recognized for “using information technology in innovative ways to optimize business processes, enable growth, create competitive advantages and improve customer experience.”

ROTC cadets and alumni/student veterans have the chance to network with representatives from companies in the energy industry during “Energy Careers for Veterans,” scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Motorsports Research Lab.

As part of the event, an NHRA top fuel dragster, sponsored by the U.S. Army and part of Don Schumacher Racing (DSR), will be on display. A DSR crew member will be present to answer questions about the dragster.

EPIC, the Motorsports Engineering program and the University Career Center are cosponsoring this opportunity.

The Charlotte 49ers and UNC Charlotte Cable Television are partnering to broadcast 10 fall sporting events that will reach 500,000-plus subscribers to Time Warner Cable and AT&T UVerse in the Charlotte region.

Men’s soccer will have four home matches broadcast; while women’s soccer and volleyball will each have three.

On campus and in Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties, these broadcasts will be on Time Warner Cable Channel 22.

UNC Charlotte faculty members enter Halton Arena for the formal ceremony to welcome new students as part of the Day of Convocation Monday, Aug. 24.

Designed as a shared experience for incoming freshmen and transfers, “Day 1” or Day of Convocation was a campus-wide initiative to formally induct these new students into the UNC Charlotte academic community.

Prior to the 11 a.m. ceremony, students gathered at their colleges for welcome remarks from their respective deans prior to proceeding to Halton Arena.

Public and private entities that fund biomedical research face difficult choices on how to allocate a finite level of capital, and scientists often take risks in selecting research topics multiple times in their academic careers. UNC Charlotte data scientist Lixia Yao, in a recently published article in Nature Biotechnology titled “Health ROI as a Measure of Misalignment of Biomedical Needs and Resources,” suggests a better method for those funding agencies and scientists.

From student to alumnus to University employee captures Zachary Tarlton’s trajectory at UNC Charlotte.

Currently, the office manager for the Department of Dance, Tarlton completed a bachelor’s degree in architecture and the Bachelor of Architecture before joining the University as a full-time employee, first with the School of Architecture.

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will present its Faculty Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12, in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, Belk Theater.

The concert will feature choreography by guest artists and three faculty members: Gretchen Alterowitz, E.E. Balcos and Rachel Barker.