Research

A team of students from the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) took the top prize – $10,000 cash and a $500 credit from Amazon Web Services – at the 2018 University Fintech Hackathon.

The CCI squad developed WADS, a multi-dimensional platform that allows cryptocurrency users to pay for goods and services without lengthy wait times and high exchange fees.

Xiuxia Du, an associate professor of bioinformatics in the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cooperative Agreement Award as the principal investigator on a project to develop metabolomics data analysis and interpretation tools.

Matthew Gropp and Julia Signorelli recently received the Graduate School’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award.

The Master’s Thesis Award goes annually to a student nominated by faculty for the quality of their thesis work.  This year’s award applies to students who completed their master’s degree requirements and thesis between fall 2016 and summer 2018. Recipients receive a plaque and cash prize.

“Vibrant Practices: Masquerade in Southwestern Burkina Faso,” on exhibition in the Student Union Art Gallery through Saturday, Dec. 8, celebrates in brilliant photographs and videos the research of art historian Lisa Homann.

A new collaborative effort called the Bridges to Baccalaureate Program is designed to help students at UNC Charlotte, Gaston College and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College complete undergraduate biomedical degrees and, ultimately, succeed in biomedical careers.

UNC Charlotte was awarded a $999,591 grant from the National Science Foundation to support high-achieving, low-income engineering students as part of the NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program.

The UNC Charlotte program, Engineering Academic Pathways, includes scholarship funds and programming to promote success among low-income students. Applications for the scholarships are being accepted, and the first awards will be made for fall 2019.

Flu season is upon the country once again. This October marked the 100th anniversary of the Influenza Epidemic (Spanish Flu) of 1918 in North Carolina, and there are lessons to be learned from the historic event.

Keeping her native land of Bangladesh close to her heart, Farida Yasmin has come to UNC Charlotte to research the woes of the soybean, which, as a critical global resource, provides more than half of the world’s vegetable oils and proteins.

Ventureprise, UNC Charlotte’s innovation and entrepreneurship center, recently welcomed seven new student companies to 49er Foundry, the University’s student incubator.

This fall, the 49er Foundry broadened its mission to engage students across campus who are working on ideas that solve business and social problems. These new student companies are working on ventures ranging from technology to enhance educational experiences to affordable advertising to small companies. The program is free to students and does not require any equity.

Krystal Turner, a graduate assistant in the Graduate School, recently participated in the annual conference of the Association of Play Therapy (APT) in Phoenix where she helped promote graduate education at UNC Charlotte and presented the research project “Child/Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) for Adoptive Families: Parents’ Lived Experiences.”