General News

Inspiration drives creativity and often results in a positive action; this is a concept that Jules Keith-Le embraces daily.

The group Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22, in the Student Union Multipurpose Room.
A professional stepping company, Step Afrika! blends dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities, African traditional dance and other dance and art forms. Through these dances, Step Afrika! promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people, focusing on teamwork, academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding.

Director of Classroom Support Steve Clark has been called a one-of-a-kind thinker and an innovator in his job at UNC Charlotte. He can add recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence to his resume.

The Charlotte 49ers Athletic Foundation raised a record $191,000 at its 10th annual “Let Me Play” luncheon to surpass its goal and eclipse the $1 million mark overall in monies raised.
The event, chaired by Laura Schulte, president of Eastern regional banking, Wells Fargo and Co., exceeded its goal of $175,000. In 10 years, the event has raised $1.07 million dollars.

“Semantic Technologies in IBM Watson” is a new course for UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics starting in spring 2014, and the University is one of only three in the country to offer it.
The class, which will cover text analytics with IBM Watson and its business applications, will be taught by Associate Professor Wlodek Zadrozny, who was a core member of the Watson team from 2008-12. 

The Office of Adult Students and Evening Services recently honored the inaugural recipients of the Bernard Osher Foundation Endowed Scholarship.
Last year, UNC Charlotte received a $1 million grant from the San Francisco-based Osher Foundation, which is being used as a permanent funding source to aid nontraditional students to complete their degrees. Through the Osher Reentry Scholarship Endowment, 29 undergraduates received scholarships for the fall semester.

Jeanette Sims, director of community affairs, will be a guest on the Nov. 19 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. She will talk about the many ways UNC Charlotte is engaged in the Charlotte area, and how the University community’s involvement in the larger region is becoming more important.

Employees can watch “Live Wire” at their desk or on their mobile device starting at 2:00 PM

Tyler Gibson’s penalty kick in the 88th minute gave the 49ers men’s soccer team its first Conference USA Tournament Championship with a 1-0 win against reigning tournament champ Tulsa. The team received one of the 16 national seeds in the NCAA tournament and will have a first-round bye.
“It’s amazing and feels great.  I am proud of the way the guys played over the last three games.  A lot of heart and courage,” said head coach Kevin Langan.

UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and administrators gathered in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center Salons Nov. 14 to celebrate the successful culmination of the 2013 Giving Green Campaign.
Co-chairs Joël Gallegos and Misty Hathcock made the “big reveal” as Chancellor Philip Dubois announced the campaign total of $154,609. This figure, which combines gifts to the ASC, SECC and the UNC Foundation, topped last year’s effort.

For 30 years, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute has surveyed Mecklenburg County residents. The results of this annual survey have become an important resource for local governments and nonprofit agencies to discern community attitudes about issues that may impact their work.