Steve Sabol, associate professor of history, will discuss Russia and the near abroad as the sixth speaker in the 2015 Great Decisions lecture series. This final presentation in the 2015 series will be at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 18, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
The North Carolina Council of IEEE and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are sponsoring the one-day event “RoboResearch” on Friday, March 6, on the Charlotte Research Institute campus.
This seminar will bring together leading experts in government, research and industry to advance the development of robotics in the state.
A documentary screening and panel discussion of “Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower” will be at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, in the College of Health and Human Services, Room 128.
Kristen Reynolds, a master’s student in English literature and a Graduate Life Fellow of the Center for Graduate Life, will host the event.
James Vesce, chair of the Department of Theatre, and theatre student Dylaney Edinger are the guests on the Feb. 12 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast.
UNC Charlotte will host a U.S. Department of State EducationUSA Leadership Institute Friday, Feb. 13, through Wednesday, Feb. 25. It will bring 15 educators to Charlotte to explore opportunities for capacity-building and international collaboration in the area of institutional structures to support inbound and outbound student mobility.
Three student teams from UNC Charlotte will compete this week at the 2015 University of North Carolina Social Entrepreneurship Conference.
Now in its third year, the UNC Social Entrepreneurship Conference engages students, faculty and entrepreneurs from across the state to identify North Carolina’s social problems and take a business-oriented approach to solve them.
The University Botanical Gardens’ annual Valentine’s Day Orchid Sale will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Feb. 12-13, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 14, at the McMillan Greenhouse.
John Denti, orchid curator at the McMillan Greenhouse, will present the lunch and learn “Orchid Growing 101” at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, at McMillan Greenhouse.
Denti will demystify the care of these tropical plants by “breaking it down” to the most important factors for growing healthy orchids.
UNC Charlotte is participating in Recyclemania, a national recycling competition and benchmarking tool. College and university programs use this event to promote waste reduction activities on their campuses.
A medical professional and Serving in Mission (SIM) missionaries who were central in the U.S. response to the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa will speak at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 16, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Heather Brown, executive director of the Women + Girls Research Alliance, was named co-editor of the Journal of Research and Practice for Literacy, Secondary and Basic Education. The scholarly work, housed in the Commission on Adult Basic Education at Rutgers University, is a major voice that links research to practice in adult literacy and basic education for more than 35 years.
