Academic Affairs

Nominees sought for 2020 Teaching Excellence Awards

The Teaching Excellence Selection Committee for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence and the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence is accepting nominations through Thursday, Nov. 21. These awards are two of the most important and prestigious awards at UNC Charlotte as they honor outstanding professors and provide an example of the University’s commitment to excellence in teaching.The strongest nominations include specific examples from students; submit a nomination and the professor will be considered for the award for which they are eligible.

49ers among inaugural list of young Charlotte innovators

Charlotte Inno announced its inaugural list of Under 25 innovators, and four of the nine honorees have strong ties to UNC Charlotte.

University, Dassault Systemes partnered to showcase modern manufacturing

Manufacturing jobs today are highly skilled within workplaces that are among the nation’s most innovative environments. To inspire more students to consider careers in manufacturing, UNC Charlotte and Dassault Systemes recently hosted nearly 175 high school students and teachers for an event in advance of National Manufacturing Day

Call for nominations for O. Max Gardner Award

Potential faculty nominees for the 2019-20 O. Max Gardner Award are being sought. This award is given annually by the UNC Board of Governors to “that member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina who, during the current scholastic year, has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.”Nominees can be of any rank, “including instructors, engaged in teaching in any unit, institution or branch of service” in the UNC System. UNC Charlotte faculty members who have won the award include Pinku Mukherjee and Diane Browder. 

UNC Charlotte researchers receive inaugural awards from NSF’s Convergence Accelerator pilot

UNC Charlotte researchers have received two of 43 awards from the inaugural round of grants from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Convergence Accelerator pilot. The new NSF initiative supports multidisciplinary research teams and lays the groundwork for public-private partnerships with Fortune 500 companies to apply Big Data to science and engineering, and create technologies that enhance the lives of American workers.  

Belk College dean to step down in October

After nine years as dean of the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte, Steven Ott has announced his intention to step down from his post on Oct. 15. Ott has served as the dean of Belk College since 2011.

UNC Charlotte named a finalist for national degree completion award

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As part of its ongoing efforts to increase degree completion, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has named UNC Charlotte among three finalists for its 2019 Degree Completion Award. This annual honor works to identify, recognize and reward institutions that employ innovative approaches to improve degree completion while ensuring educational quality.

Education professor receives first Reynolds Leadership Award

Florence Martin is the inaugural recipient of the Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for excellence in graduate program administration.She is a professor in Learning, Design and Technology, graduate program director of the Post-Master’s Certificate of University and College Teaching and program coordinator of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, Learning, Design and Technology.

Webinar to feature ‘The Professor is In’

The Center for Graduate Life is sponsoring “Hacking the Academic Job Market.” This one-hour webinar, followed by a question-and-answer period, is scheduled for 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Cone University Center, Room 268.Karen Kelsky, of the acclaimed The Professor Is In website, will lead this webinar, which is open to all graduate and postdoctoral students, as part of the University’s observance of National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

Webb, Marshall named 2019 University Teaching Excellence Award winners

Each fall, UNC Charlotte recognizes those faculty members who are exemplary educators through the University Teaching Excellence Awards. Jennifer Webb and Thomas Marshall are the 2019 recipients of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence and the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence, respectively.