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.
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."
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.
The answers to the big questions by their very nature provoke strong reactions. The debate over the right way to find those answers is no less contentious. Out of this landscape has emerged the discussion over the relationship between science and religion. Can they coexist? What role do they have in public policy? What should be taught in schools?
The Charlotte 49ers will make their debut on the FBS level in front of a nationally-televised audience. Charlotte, which will make its move to the FBS as a member of Conference USA this fall, will have its season-opener at Georgia State broadcast on ESPNU.
Tim Keane, who earned a bachelor’s degree in geography and a master's degree in architecture from UNC Charlotte, has been named commissioner of planning and community development for the city of Atlanta.
John Reeves, Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has received a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2015-16 to work on the project “Illuminating the Afterlife of Ancient Apocryphal Jewish Literature.”
In 2011, Larry Mellichamp was working on a book about native plants, when he envisioned an addition to the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens that would showcase such specimens. That dream became reality when the campus and greater Charlotte communities gathered Sunday, May 31, to formally open the Mellichamp Natives Terrace Garden.
Robin James, associate professor of philosophy, had the work “Resilience and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism and Neoliberalism” published by Zero Books. Recently, James was interviewed by Dave O’Brien for the New Books in Critical Theory website.
