General News

The Advisory Committee to the Chancellor for Employee Health and Wellness (ACCEHW) is coordinating walking groups for faculty and staff members for the remainder of the fall semester.

The groups will meet at noon, Tuesdays; 12:30 p.m., Wednesdays; and 9 a.m., Thursdays; under the clock tower at the Barnhardt Student Activity Center. 

According to organizers, the walks are designed to be an hour, but participants can return to work at any time. The routes will vary based upon the participants each day.

A film about building bridges of understanding in communities “My So-Called Enemy” will be screened at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Student Union Movie Theater.

Spanning seven years, “My So-Called Enemy” follows six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls committed to justice and mutual understanding after participating in a women’s leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace. This film documents how the young women’s transformative experience of knowing their “enemies” as human beings in the United States meets with the realities of their lives in the Middle East.

The UNC Charlotte Alumni Association and Jim Woodward, chancellor emeritus, are hosting “Wayfaring Strangers: A Musical Luncheon with Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr” at noon, Friday, Nov. 14, at Byron’s South End.

Tickets are $30 for the luncheon, and there are packages that include copies of “Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia.” Authors Ritchie and Orr guide the reader on a musical voyage across oceans to capture the stories of the people, the times and the music that many Scots-Irish immigrants brought to the United States.

UNC Charlotte senior Jameka Parker has been recognized for outstanding leadership and service by North Carolina Campus Compact, a statewide network of colleges and universities committed to community engagement. Parker is a recipient of the Community Impact Student Award, which honors one student leader at each member school.

Parker, from Fayetteville, is one of 18 students across the state to receive the 2014 award, joining more than 200 college students honored by the organization since the award was first presented in 2006.

Mira Frisch, associate professor of cello and director of String Chamber Music, will be the guest on the Nov. 6 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. She will discuss the upcoming  Faculty & Friends Concert, featuring the Madison Park String Quartet.

Employees can watch “The Live Wire” at their desks or on their mobile devices starting at 2 p.m..

Stephen Billings, associate professor of economics and the co-director of the Center for Real Estate in the Belk College of Business, and Alyson Metcalfe, director of the Master of Science in Real Estate program and Liz Ward, a program alumna, will be guests on the Dec.4 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. 

Billings will give an overview of the Center for Real Estate and talk about its research and outreach.  Metcalfe and Ward will talk about the Master of Science in Real Estate program and how people can apply.

Former Lee College of Engineering professor Helene Hilger was recognized by the Water Environment Federation with its Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal at its 87th annual WEF Technical Exhibition and Conference in New Orleans.

The medal recognizes accomplishments in the education and development of future engineers. The award namesake, Gordon Maskew Fair, was a professor of sanitary engineering at Harvard University who was known for achieving exceptional results in preparing students for the water environment profession.

UNC Charlotte has earned the inaugural Smart Fleet Champion Award from the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center and the N.C. Department of Transportation.

The honor is the program’s highest level and is given in recognition of vehicle fleet efforts to reduce petroleum use and carbon dioxide and other “harmful” emissions. It was presented recently at the first Southeast Alternative Fuels Conference in Raleigh.

Beau Dooley, a native of Southwest Louisiana, joined the University as director of the Center for Wellness Promotion earlier this semester.