Research

Mirsad Hadzikadic, along with collaborators at N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill, are interviewed for the UNC ROI video “Building Big Data Infrastructure.”

Susan McCarter has one of those personalities that draws one in. Even when she’s giving an academic presentation, the School of Social Work professor is warm, engaging and almost relentlessly cheerful. Still, when she starts talking about her research, her audience — regardless of its size or composition — often becomes visibly uncomfortable. 

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.

A quartet of UNC Charlotte music students will perform at two international conferences during the month of July: the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), which will take place July 5-9 in San Francisco, and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 32nd World Conference on Music Education, which will be July 24-29 in Glasgow, Scotland. The participating students are Mitchell Stokes, Faith Foster, Kelsey Sexton and Dawn Carpenter. The quartet will be the only ensemble to perform at the ICMPC in San Francisco.

Sheng-Guo Wang, a professor of electrical engineering technology in the Lee College of Engineering, has received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research at Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the 2016-17 academic year.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University is a leading international research institution, most recently ranked 12th globally in structural engineering by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings; QS is a British company that specializes in education and study abroad.

One in every eight couples struggles to conceive or maintain a pregnancy. In Charlotte, at least 4,000 people seek infertility treatment every year. As such, the city has become a hub of knowledge and resources for patients diagnosed with infertility. A local chapter of the national infertility support group RESOLVE, embryo banks, follicle preservation and alternative health care are treatment options patients can locate in the Charlotte area.

The North Carolina economy continues to grow, but at a lackluster pace, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in the Babson Capital Management/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast.

An unfolding partnership between an interdisciplinary team at UNC Charlotte and the Camino Community Center is helping to address the mental health needs of Charlotte’s Latino community.

 Lixia Yao, an assistant professor in the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Software and Information Systems, has received a Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

This highly competitive award is designed to provide junior faculty the support and “protected time” for an intensive career development in biomedical informatics leading to research independence. 

Animals can adapt to their environment through changes to their DNA, but more recently, research has shown that non-genetic components may be important, too. Two central non-genetic contributors to individual variation are chemical modifications of the DNA, epigenetics, and associations with different bacterial species or microbial symbioses.

UNC Charlotte biological sciences professor Adam Reitzel is leading an international team to investigate how epigenetic regulations and microbial communities are influencing the adaptation of coastal marine species to climate change.