General News
College of Education to present Barret Lecture, to hold counseling conference
The College of Education’s annual Bob Barret Distinguished Lecture on Multicultural Issues in Counseling will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Cone University Center, Room 210, and on Friday, Oct. 25, the Counseling Department will sponsor the conference “Multicultural Perspectives on Counseling.”
Kruckeberg to receive 2013 Atlas Award
Dean Kruckeberg, professor of communication studies, is the 2013 recipient of the Atlas Award for Lifetime Achievement in International Public Relations. He will be presented the honor formally by the 21,000-member Public Relations Society of America at the general session of its international conference in Philadelphia, Monday, Oct. 28.
Mediation team wins awards at regional tournament
The UNC Charlotte Mediation Team won four awards at the regional Mediation Tournament held in Gainesville, Ga., earlier this month. The team competed against challengers from 10 other institutions, including Western Carolina University and Georgia Southern University.
Galleries to offer dual receptions for exhibitions
Rowe and Storrs galleries will both hold receptions and artist talks for concurrent exhibitions on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Volunteers needed to complete Habitat build
The UNC Charlotte Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter needs volunteers to finalize “The House the 49ers Built.”
During Homecoming, the chapter conducted the on-campus portion of the build, after a successful fundraising campaign. The house is now at its permanent location, 1312 Onyx Road, Charlotte, 28216.
Final construction will start Friday, Nov. 1, and during the upcoming weeks, students, alumni, faculty and staff teams will have a chance to be part of this historic community project.
Lizotte named University sustainability officer
Michael Lizotte is the University sustainability officer, which is part of the Facilities Management Department in the Division for Business Affairs.
Smith pioneered University’s engineering program
The Sheldon Phelps Smith Building honors an individual whose foresight helped to chart UNC Charlotte’s educational course.
Smith, vice president and general manager of the Douglas Aircraft Company’s Charlotte Division, served as a trustee of Charlotte College from 1958 to 1965. He is credited with bringing an engineering program to the institution. Through his generosity, Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers taught at Charlotte College on a released time basis; as many as nine part-time instructors from Douglas were in service at one time.
Timing pays off for CCI grad student
Master’s student Khalia Braswell made the most of an invitation from a friend to participate in the 2013 Focus 100 Global Mobile Hackathon – she turned it into a winning effort.
Braswell, pursing a graduate degree in the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Software and Information Systems, was invited by a friend who attends Clemson University to join her team.
Theatre Department to present U.S. premiere of English adaptation of ‘Love the Doctor’
The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will perform “Love the Doctor,” a comedic play by the Spanish Golden Age playwright Tirso de Molina starting Wednesday, Oct. 30.
This will be the first fully staged production of the 17th-century play to be performed in the United States in English. The work was translated and adapted by UNC Charlotte alumna Sarah Brew, in collaboration with Josephine Hardman.