From Gandy dancer to UNC Charlotte Employee of the Year could be the title of Kurt Richter’s biography.
Richter, an instructional technology specialist in the Center for Teaching and Learning, was honored earlier this year; his plaque rests within a special place inside his Kennedy Building office – his halibut/orange roughy fishing net.
UNC Charlotte officials are offering a free mobile device application for students, faculty and staff to instantly share safety and security concerns with the University Police and Public Safety Department. The free app, called LiveSafe, is now available as campus safety officials introduced the new technology earlier this month.
Winsor Schmidt, former chair of Urban Health Policy at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, is joining the College of Health and Human Services faculty this fall as the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy on Health.
“A Defining Decade” is the cover story for the second quarter 2015 edition of the UNC Charlotte magazine; in the article, Chancellor Philip L. Dubois discusses the many milestones that have occurred during his tenure.
Bank of America is a major employer in the Charlotte region, and a large number of UNC Charlotte graduates work for the global financial services leader.
The ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office recently welcomed “The Op-Ed Project” to UNC Charlotte. The two-day workshop focused on enlarging the pool of women and underrepresented minority experts who are accessing opinion forums and discovering effective ways to "get their feet in the door of the idea marketplace."
The Division of Business Affairs will sponsor its annual campus-wide ice cream social from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Friday, June 26, in the Cone University Center, After Hours Lounge.
The City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County recently released the updated Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Explorer, an interactive online tool that can be used to explore social, housing, economic, environmental and safety conditions in neighborhoods across Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
Alumni Jeannette Freedman (MBA '14) and Kirk Beatty ('87, MBA '10) will be the guests on the June 18 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. They will share their experiences as students in the MBA program of the Belk College of Business.
Watch “The Live Wire” via computer or mobile devices starting at 2 p.m.
Joshua Stokell, a UNC Charlotte post-doctoral fellow, died on Monday, June 8, as a result of complications arising from his lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
Fifteen young leaders from high schools across the United States, including 11 from North Carolina, have been named to the sixth class of UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars Program. They will join the University starting with the fall 2015 semester.
