The American Heart Association National Walking Day is Wednesday, April 2. To celebrate, the Advisory Committee to the Chancellor for Employee Health and Wellness is sponsoring a 20- to 30-minute walk around campus. Faculty and staff members who would like to participate should meet outside Belk Gym at 11 a.m.
Artificially intelligent cell phones, world-wrecking environmental catastrophes, matter transporters, genetically engineered dinosaurs and invisibility cloaking are among the subjects that many Americans think are the most interesting in science and often show up in science-related movies.
The Blumenthal Foundation of Charlotte has awarded the University $22,500 for a collaborative initiative that will increase the profile of and engage the public in issues about the natural environment.
Faculty and staff members can continue “Giving Green in the Community” by participating in a number of projects planned for National Volunteer Week, April 7-11. These projects, coordinated by the Community Relations Department in the Division for University Advancement, involve two- to four-hour commitments in the morning or afternoon.
Sixteen students recently represented UNC Charlotte at the Mid-Atlantic Sectional Tournament at Virginia Tech to compete in the 9-ball billiards and table tennis events.
The Charlotte 49ers Green and White Spring Game will be at noon, Saturday, April 5, in Richardson Stadium.
Admission will be $10. The ticket also will cover admission to he Charlotte 49ers baseball game against Evansville that begins at 2 p.m.
Stephen Ward, executive director of University communications, will interview student, Timothy Roberts, about the UNC Charlotte Army ROTC program. He is the head senior training officer for the U.S. Army-49er Battalion and a management information systems major.
Employees can watch “Live Wire” at their desk or on their mobile device starting at 2 p.m.
The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City will display “Sustain Me Baby” Friday, March 28, through Thursday, June 26. Combining the work of two artists in different media, “Sustain Me Baby” examines the danger of plastics that cannot be recycled. An opening reception for the exhibition will be from 6 to 8 p.m., March 28.
The newly published “Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas” by English professor Jeffrey Leak has been praised for “shining a piercing light” on the elusive Dumas, who has remained a mystery even to his fans.
Leak, through interviews with Dumas’ family and friends, along with writers who knew Dumas, examined the author’s life and writing.
