Research

There is a lot of science going on in North Carolina, and on April 1, the state begins the 2018 N.C. Science Festival, a statewide public “celebration of science,” featuring almost 700 events, throughout the entire month.
Now in its seventh year of participation, UNC Charlotte is again part of the N.C. Science Festival’s mind-expanding activities.

Every two years, the Women + Girls Research Alliance at UNC Charlotte hosts a summit focused on important issues in the lives of women and girls. The 2018 summit, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5, is devoted to “The Story of the Charlotte Girl.”

The Graduate School is accepting applications for its newest graduate research grant, the Thomas L. Reynolds Graduate Student Research Fellowship. This unique award is named for the dean of the UNC Charlotte Graduate School.

Diane Browder, Lake and Edward P. Snyder Distinguished Professor of Special Education, has received the 2018 Special Education Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. This award recognizes an individual whose research has significantly advanced the education of children and youth with exceptionalities.

Charter Schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are directly and indirectly undermining school district efforts to desegregate public schools, according to a new study released by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA with researchers at UNC Charlotte.

UNC Charlotte Health Services Research doctoral student Laura Clark was recognized with a best research poster award at the 20th annual European Congress of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).

Clark was selected for the best poster award in the student category for her work on the burden of a renal transplant among Medicare beneficiaries with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Doctoral student Wahida Nasrin and Associate Professor Jiang (Linda) Xie, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, won a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), held in Singapore. Their winning paper was titled “An Efficient Target Cell Selection Scheme for Next-generation Open-access Femtocell Networks.”

What if people could lower their blood pressure simply by squeezing their hands? 

It may sound too good to be true, but a UNC Charlotte research team is producing some very promising results with isometric exercise – flexing muscles without moving a joint.

As children are exposed to technology and cyber learning at a younger and younger age, there is a growing need to prepare K-12 students to navigate the digital world. The UNC Charlotte Cato College of Education has earned the opportunity to do just that by designing a cyber safety curriculum that will be implemented with teachers, technology facilitators, middle school students and parents from three school districts and a charter school in the Charlotte region.

Doctoral students Bhaskar Mitra and Pankaj Bhowmik won first and second place, respectively, at the recent Duke Energy Week poster presentation. Only the top 20 teams/individuals were given the opportunity to present during the conference, held at the Fuqua School of Business.