Academic Affairs

Two on-campus entities have partnered to use grant money to improve student experiences and outcomes across North Carolina.

Two on-campus entities have partnered to use grant money to improve student experiences and outcomes across North Carolina.

Ruth Burnett, associate director for the Office of Technology Transfer, is retiring from the University after 18 years of service.

A retirement reception is scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 19, in the atrium of the PORTAL Building. Light refreshments will be served.

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Fortune 500 company Sealed Air Corporation recently opened its research and design lab inside UNC Charlotte’s PORTAL Building to provide a look at the future of packaging.

Sealed Air is awaiting completion of its new headquarters in south Charlotte; until then, the company set up a temporary Innovation Lab on the first floor of PORTAL. The company’s R&D employees are focused on applications engineering and new developments for Instapak and Korrvu, two new Sealed Air packaging products.

The North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NC-LSAMP) will hold its 2016 annual undergraduate research conference at UNC Charlotte on Friday, Oct. 14.

Yokohama Tire Corporation has announced plans to locate a research and development center in Concord’s International Business Park. Until that facility is ready, the company will house up to 22 workers on UNC Charlotte’s campus in the PORTAL Building.

UNC Charlotte has a robust global network of alliances that enhance diversity and increase study and research opportunities for students and faculty members.

One currently in the spotlight is South Africa, where “sawubona” means “hello” in Zulu. UNC Charlotte has received more than a warm hello from South Africa.

UNC President Margaret Spellings has offered the following statement on the 2016-17 state budget negotiated by the NC General Assembly’s Budget Conference Committee:

Technology can be a force to improve various aspects of a community, and UNC Charlotte is issuing a public challenge for developers to create applications or games to advance a social good.

The UNC Charlotte Data Science Initiative, through its Partnership for Social Good, is sponsoring a virtual hackathon to address economic mobility in the Queen City. Participants will compete for $10,000 in prizes, and their challenge is to create a mobile platform-based application or game that addresses this problem:

UNC Charlotte’s Women + Girls Research Alliance is featured as a case study in a new work on the practice of community-based research.

“Community-based Qualitative Research: Approaches for Education and the Social Sciences” was published by SAGE Publications; it was authored by Laura Ruth Johnson, associate professor, Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, College of Education, Northern Illinois University.