Research

The National Instruments LabVIEW Campus Tour will come to campus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5, in front of the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center.
National Instruments is a company that has equipped engineers and scientists with “tools that accelerate productivity, innovation and discovery,” according to its corporate website.
The LabVIEW tour bus travels to universities and colleges across the United States and Canada to showcase the latest NI hardware and software solutions for measurement, control, embedded, and communications applications.

Joyce Dalsheim will discuss her groundbreaking study of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip and the resulting book about her enthographic work at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12, at UNC Charlotte Center City, as part of the 2012-13 Personally Speaking lecture series.

Incorporating Lean Six Sigma management methodology is relatively unknown in the legal world, but technology-driven Hunoval Law Firm in Charlotte is raising the bar.
Partnering with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems, Hunoval Law is offering Lean Six Sigma training to its employees and has already incorporated its strategy into key business processes.

Researchers in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences pursued answers to big questions in 2012 in an effort to expand the boundaries of what humans already know.
Faculty in the college obtained more than one-quarter of the University’s total external funding dollars, according to CLAS officials. Click here to see a list of funded projects; an asterisk (*) means the CLAS faculty member is a co-principal investigator with the principal investigator from another college/university.

North Carolina will have its fourth year of slow but uninterrupted economic growth in 2013, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported in his quarterly forecast for the state.
However, Connaughton cautioned that economic uncertainty in Europe and the ongoing negotiations on tax increases and the “fiscal cliff” may have a negative impact on the state and national economies in the coming year.

Ongoing growth in research activity is a fundamental goal at UNC Charlotte, in keeping with the mission to be North Carolina’s urban research university. Though the challenge of steadily increasing funded research largely falls on the shoulders of the researchers themselves, the University recognizes that constant improvement in administrative support also may  be a critical part of getting more and larger grant funding.

Daniel Janies, Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, is an invited speaker at the “Symposium Emerging Infections, Microbial Threats to Health and the Microbiome” being hosted by the National Academy of Sciences Dec. 11-12. 

Economist John Connaughton will discuss implications of the “fiscal cliff” when he presents his quarterly forecast for the North Carolina economy at a luncheon and press conference at noon, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at UNC Charlotte Center City (320 E. 9th Street). Connaughton’s presentation will be in the second floor auditorium; box lunches will be available beginning at 11:30 a.m.              

Jing Xiao, professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Informatics, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow effective Jan. 1.

She is being recognized for contributions to robot compliant motion and haptic interaction. Xiao’s core work addresses the physical interaction between a machine and objects it manipulates, which impacts the application of robotics and haptics in autonomous assembly operations, tele-operations, virtual prototyping and virtual training of surgical operations.

Russell Kirby, Marrell Endowed Chair in Down Syndrome Research in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, will present “Spatial Perspectives on Public Health” from 12:30 to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the College of Health and Human Services, Room 145.