General News

UNC Charlotte is participating in the “Race to the Beach” clean commute challenge, which is under way. The contest, cosponsored by Charlotte Area Air Awareness, CATS and Sustain Charlotte, offers incentives for individuals to discover new ways to get to work besides driving alone.

Visit RacetotheBeach.com to register for the clean commute challenge. Participants should log in their clean commutes each week of the race to be entered in weekly drawings for prizes.

UNC Charlotte’s burgeoning Titan Arum now has a name – Odoardo or “Odie” for short. The flower is named for Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari, who discovered the Titan Arum in Sumatra in 1878.

Biology major Mariah Huffman, co-president of the UNC Charlotte Student Community Garden, submitted the chosen name. She said she is excited to have the chance to experience a Titan Arum blossom. While she knew about Bella, the University’s previous Titan Arum, she was not a student when the plant last bloomed in 2010 before it expired.

The Environmental Health and Safety Office will conduct training on the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) from 1 to 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 29, and Friday, July 31, in the Cone University Center, Room 208.

These one-hour courses will familiarize attendees with the appropriate use of AEDs in the event of an emergency. UNC Charlotte has more than 40 AEDs located in various buildings across campus.

The 2015-16 undergraduate and graduate catalogs are both available online. The two publications were developed using Acalog, a new catalog content management system.

Acalog provides for a database-driven catalog, meaning that the content of each page is dynamically created for every user upon each visit. It is integrated with Banner, the University’s student information system and with the forthcoming Curriculog, a curriculum management software.

Acalog features include:

UNC Charlotte student Hunter Aldridge won first place in the final round of the Upper College Men Division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National Student Auditions on July 7. Aldridge, a tenor, studies with Brian Arreola, assistant professor of voice and director of the Department of Music opera workshop program.

Accounting Professor L. Howard Godfrey is being honored by the Charlotte business community for his academic leadership and legacy. He will receive the first Academic Leadership Award during the Charlotte Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Awards July 22. 

This week marks a significant anniversary for UNC Charlotte. On July 15, Chancellor Philip L. Dubois will have been on the job for 10 years.

Dubois was formally named the University’s fourth chancellor on March 18, 2005. He assumed the helm roughly four months later, after concluding his eight-year tenure as president of the University of Wyoming. His return to UNC Charlotte could be characterized as a homecoming, as Dubois first arrived on campus in 1991 as the chief academic officer, a post he held until departing for Wyoming in 1997.

The College of Education’s literacy professors are among the most prolific scholars in the country in their field, according to a recent study.

Published in the journal Reading Psychology, the article looked at the productivity of literacy faculty nationwide from 2006 to 2012. The rankings were based on the number of times professors appeared in nine prominent research journals, adjusted for the size of the literacy faculty at the particular college.

Charlotte 49ers football will make the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) this fall as the team enters Conference USA competition. Fans can be part of the game-day atmosphere at Richardson Stadium as a host of ticket options are being offered.

UNC Charlotte shares some pretty impressive company in a new listing from U.S. News and World Report. The story focuses on the educational background of the CEOs from the top 100 companies on this year’s Fortune 500 list, which ranks companies in terms of revenues.

Only a handful of colleges can claim multiple CEOs on the top 100 list, including UNC Charlotte with two. No institution had more than three.