General News
KEEPING WATCH enters second year with ‘City of Creeks’
The three-year initiative KEEPING WATCH enters its second year with “KEEPING WATCH on WATER: City of Creeks.” Events begin with an exhibition opening on Friday, March 27, at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Lecture, panel to celebrate School of Social Work designation
On Thursday, March 19, the College of Health and Human Services will mark the transition of the Department of Social Work into the new School of Social Work with a lecture and panel discussion.
Focus on monitoring activities concludes five-part series on COSO framework
An emphasis on monitoring activities is the final COSO internal standard being examined in a series of five articles.
Ongoing evaluations, separate evaluations or some combination of the two are monitoring activities used to determine whether each of the five components of internal control, including controls to affect the principles within each component, is present and functioning.
Erevelles, King to guest on March 12 ‘Live Wire’
Sunil Erevelles, chair of the Marketing Department in the Belk College of Business, and Dolly King, chair of the Department of Finance and the Rush Dickson Professor of Finance in the Belk College of Business, will be the guests on the March 12 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. Erevelles will discuss the Marketing Department and an executive education session in March on innovation.
2015 Employees of the Year named at annual Staff Recognition Luncheon
Cole Carter, Tina Dadio, Solomon Franklin and Kurt Richter are the 2015 Employees of the Year. They were honored at the annual Staff Recognition Luncheon, held Wednesday, March 11, in the Student Union Multipurpose Room.
McKinley wins award for best book on S.C. history
Historian Shepherd McKinley’s book “Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina” was named the winner of the South Carolina Historical Society’s 2014 George Rogers Jr. Book Award as the best book about South Carolina history published last year.
Andrews joins Charlotte Research Institute
Clay Andrews is the assistant director for corporate partnerships at the Charlotte Research Institute; he joined the University March 2.
Connolly to talk on slavery and children’s literature for Personally Speaking
Paula Connolly, associate professor of English, will discuss her work “Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, at the J. Murrey Atkins Library. This talk is part of the Personally Speaking series, presented by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the library.
“Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” is considered the first comprehensive study of its kind. The work examines the politicizing nature of children’s literature and explores how political ideologies intersect childhood with nationhood.
Estate planning brown bag scheduled
The UNC Charlotte Continuing Education Office is sponsoring “Estate Planning: Getting Your House in Order” from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, March 19, at UNC Charlotte Center City. Part of the office’s Brown Bag Series, this event is free, but advanced registration is required.
University of Maryland law professor to deliver fourth annual TIAA-CREF Lecture
Frank Pasquale, author of the top-selling “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information” is the featured speaker for the fourth annual TIAA-CREF Lecture scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday March 12, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
The lecture will be preceded by a reception beginning at 6 p.m., and a dessert reception will follow at 8 p.m.
Reservations are required.