Organizers for a recent National Walking Day event on campus characterized the turnout as great and have set a goal to start weekly walking groups for employees based upon the high participation.
Open presentations by two candidates for the position of director of financial aid have been scheduled.
The candidates, Bruce Blackmon and Jane Hojan-Clark, will speak on the topic “The Use of Technology in Financial Aid.” Blackmon’s talk is at 10:30 a.m., Friday, April 11; Hojan-Clark will speak at 10:30 a.m., Monday, April 14. Both sessions will be in Reese Building, Room 524.
Members of the campus community voted on the top three recipes and a fan favorite at the recent sixth annual Staff Council Chili Cook-off.
Jeremi Watkins, assistant director of student financial aid, placed first in the competition; he won a $75 gift card. This was Watkin’s second consecutive victory in the annual event.
Members of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Information Technology were on campus recently to study issues related to technology in state government and important trends in the technology sector.
The Lee College of Engineering’s Materials Characterization Lab is now in the Cameron Applied Research Center. The facility provides faculty and student researchers with analysis of advanced materials, as well as sampling services, training, shared instrument usage and expertise at an affordable cost.
The Charlotte Venture Challenge (CVC) will showcase 39 finalists selected from more than 100 startup competitors located throughout the Southeastern United States. These contenders will be introduced to investors, corporate executives and the business community at the CVC finals, Thursday, May 1.
UNC Online, the website for everything online in the system, is observing Learning Technologies Week Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11.
During this week, UNC Online will offer 14 webinars on topics of broad interest to faculty, administrators and instructional designers and technologists.
Richard McDevitt, director of marketing, will interview Shawn Kiley, business continuity analyst, on the April 8 segment of "The Live Wire," Inside UNC Charlotte's streaming webcast. They will discuss business continuity planning and how the University benefits from such efforts.
Employees can watch “Live Wire” at their desk or on their mobile device starting at 2 p.m.
The Charlotte 49ers, through the University’s media rights holder IMG College, have completed an extensive partnership with WFNZ, Sports Talk 610 AM, that will land the 49ers radio broadcasts on the market’s largest sports station.
Xingjian Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, has received the 2014 Emerging Scholar Award from the Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group (RDPSG) of the Association of American Geographers.
The UNC Charlotte Film Club will hold its sixth annual festival, now called teh Gold Reel Film Festival, from 6 to 10 p.m., Tuesday, April 29, in Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.
Craig Ogle, the Charles H. Stone Professor of Chemistry, is the 2014 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal. The prestigious award, presented by First Citizens Bank and UNC Charlotte, honors faculty scholarship and intellectual inquiry.
