Research

For the 2014 calendar year, authors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences researched, wrote or edited 32 books on an array of topics including primates of Vietnam, trends in drug use and distribution, Hispanic children’s literature, middle class white anti-racism, stalled peacemaking in Israel and Palestine, the meltdown of the middle class, the U.S. Court of Appeals, HIV/AIDS, ethics and reality TV and discourse analysis.

The college recognized the authors and funding recipients at a celebration in the Harris Alumni Center prior to winter break.

The relocation of the Charlotte regional office of the Small Business and Technology Development Center to the UNC Charlotte PORTAL Building concentrates University-affiliated entrepreneurial support services in a state-of-the-art facility. Formerly located in the Ben Craig Center at University Research Park, the SBTDC officially opened in PORTAL Jan. 2.

JuliAnna Ávila, assistant professor of English, is the co-recipient of the prestigious Edward Fry Book Award for “Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections and Challenges.”

Erik Saule, assistant professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Informatics, has been named a National Consortium for Data Science Fellow for 2015.

The National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) is a public-private partnership to advance data science and address the challenges and opportunities of big data; Saule was one of three NCDS Data Fellows for 2015.

UNC Charlotte researcher John Stogner is sounding the alarm about a drug that is five to 15 times stronger than heroin—and escapes detection on drug screens unless doctors specifically look for it.

Stogner, a criminologist and drug researcher, recently published a paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine on acetyl fentanyl, a potentially deadly opioid.

The North Carolina economy grew at a rate much stronger than expected during the second half of 2014 signaling significant potential growth in 2015, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported Tuesday, Dec. 9, in his quarterly forecast for the state.

Three projects by students from the Lee College of Engineering were judged to be the best at the recent Industrial Senior Design Expo. During the event, project teams presented their completed projects and mid-project design posters.

A capacity crowd of more than 325 people recently attended a Personally Speaking Lecture in which James Tabor, professor of religious studies, spoke about the influence of the Apostle Paul.

“The foundations of Western civilization rest in a singular way on the heavenly visions of the Apostle Paul,” said Tabor. “In a way, we are the cultural heirs of Paul.”

The statistics are startling: one in four women will be a victim of domestic violence at some point in her life in America.* On average, three women are killed by a current or former intimate partner every day.**

While the emotional devastation of domestic violence on victims and their families is incalculable, a new study by researchers at UNC Charlotte attempts to quantify the hard costs. The study reveals a staggering $307 million annual price tag for domestic violence in North Carolina.

SineWatts Inc., a clean-tech startup company based in Charlotte, in collaboration with UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) as its primary research partner, has been selected for a second Incubator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to develop its Inverter Molecule product.