College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Hannah Landecker, director of the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA, will present “Eating History: Reading Epigenetic Science for a Metabolic Ethics” at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 6, in the Cone University Center, Room 210.

An outdoor, living exhibit is on its way to the UNC Charlotte campus that will tell the story of North Carolina through plants and crops crucial to the state’s development.

Eva Mroczek, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Davis, will deliver the 2019 Alice Tate Lecture in Judaic Studies. Her presentation, “Out of the Caves: Manuscript Discovery and New Biblical Pasts,” is scheduled for 4 p.m., Monday, Oct. 21, in the Rowe Arts Building, Room 130.In her lecture, Mroczek will discuss how tales of hidden knowledge and new biblical pasts challenge assumptions about what scripture and tradition means in Jewish literature and beyond. 

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, an assistant professor at Duke University’s School of Medicine, will present “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall. This public presentation is this year’s Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Distinguished Africana Lecture, sponsored by the Africana Studies Department.

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.  

Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) Fellows and teacher-researchers will share new curricula created for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) students at the 2019 Evening for Educators. This event is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Discovery Place Education Studio.Learn about engaging new teaching ideas created by CMS teachers in their CTI seminars and summer research experiences and find out about new CTI seminars for CMS teachers in 2020.

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. to noon, students will gather at the Star Quad to take turns reading the U.S. Constitution. All are welcome at the event, which is the University’s annual commemoration of Constitution Day.“We want this reading of the Constitution to start discussion among students about their constitutional rights and about the structure of our government,” said Kathleen Nicolaides, director of the Legal Studies Minor and pre-law advisor. 

The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens Fall Plant Sale is a great place to find selections that will yield spring blooms.This annual sale will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4-5, at the Cafeteria Activities Building (220 CAB Lane). A preview sale will be noon to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, for members of the campus community and garden stewards. Students, faculty and staff receive a 10 percent discount with a UNC Charlotte ID.

Julio Capó Jr., associate professor of history at Florida International University, will discuss his book “Welcome to Fairyland: Gay Miami Before 1940” at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 25, at UNC Charlotte Center City.Capó is a transnational historian whose research and teaching interests include modern U.S. history, especially the United States’ relationship to the Caribbean and Latin America. He addresses how gender and sexuality have historically intersected with constructions of ethnicity, race, class, nation, age and ability.

From the opening kickoff in exhibition football season to a sudden death playoff at the Masters, sports arguably are America’s most popular pastime, not to mention a lucrative career for elite athletes. The Personally Speaking Series kicks off its 10th season Tuesday, Sept. 24, with a hard look at the relationship between sports and religion.