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Inside the Online Classroom with Educational Leadership Professor Florence Martin

September 4, 2020
Get an inside look at how Martin, an expert in online instructional design, is putting her years of research into practice teaching the educators of the future.

Inside the Online Classroom with Kinesiology Professor Amanda Dexter

September 4, 2020
Get an inside look at how Dexter is approaching her classroom of respiratory therapists, who regularly find themselves on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

UNC Charlotte’s campus-based early detection research system aims to prevent COVID-19 spread

August 31, 2020
A team of University researchers are preparing to sample and test wastewater from various campus locations as an early-warning system to locate the presence of COVID-19.

Update on Fall Semester

August 23, 2020
Chancellor Gaber provides an important update path forward for UNC Charlotte’s fall semester.

Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic

August 7, 2020
As the United States battles a drastic resurgence in coronavirus cases, a group of UNC Charlotte researchers aggregated, analyzed and visualized publicly available COVID-19 data to produce an interactive dashboard in order to better understand the rapid spread of the virus.

Returning to campus safely with 'The New Norm'

August 3, 2020
The University launched “The New Norm: Your Health. Our Community,” an educational campaign promoting new safety and community standards designed to protect Niner Nation.

A safe return to campus: Niner Nation prepares for fall

July 28, 2020
As UNC Charlotte looks to the start of the fall semester on Sept. 7, preparations are underway to welcome back students, faculty and staff with their safety a priority.

Study highlights disparities in COVID-19 in urban and rural areas

July 27, 2020
A new study led by UNC Charlotte public health researchers is highlighting the progression of COVID-19 in urban and rural counties and revealing geographic disparities in the prevalence of the virus.

Governor appoints social work professor to statewide task force

July 16, 2020
Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed UNC Charlotte social work professor Sonyia Richardson, Ph.D., to a statewide task force on health inequities.

Online instruction meets ‘gold standard’ Quality Matters specifications

July 8, 2020
As UNC Charlotte moves toward the fall 2020 semester, “the new normal” for students and faculty includes different modes of instruction as the University continues to adapt to the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Social gerontologist learns lessons from her octogenarian mother and COVID-19 isolation

June 25, 2020
Social gerontologist Cynthia Hancock, Ph.D., interviewed her 85-year-old mother, Joyce Riffe, about how COVID-19 has affected her life. The two talked about Riffe’s own experiences with polio and her mother’s surviving the Spanish Influenza pandemic in 1918.

Dean Reynolds to match gifts to Student Emergency Fund

June 25, 2020
Tom Reynolds will generously match dollar-for-dollar all gifts made to the UNC Charlotte Student Emergency Fund up to $5,000 through June 30, 2020.