News and Features

Students, faculty, staff and community members will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the April 30 campus shooting and subsequent response through the Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project. 

From Anson County to UNC Charlotte and back home again, Kelsey Harris and Alyssa Harris Martini are two sisters with an inseparable bond strengthened by a love of teaching.

Death will mingle with the likes of Love, Friendship, Understanding and Stuff when the Department of Theatre presents “Everybody,” opening at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall.

“Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn” is a traveling exhibit from the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine.

UNC Charlotte is one of 20 universities selected to join a three-year institutional change effort to develop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring and retention practices.

Voting early in this year’s local elections is easy with “Party to the Polls.” From Monday, Oct. 28, through Wednesday, Oct. 30, shuttles to the closest polling location, 8802 J.W. Clay Boulevard, will be offered.

Cato College of Education alumna Bonnie Roop ’19 is the 2019 North Carolina Student Teacher of the Year. 

A new grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will allow UNC Charlotte social work professor Annelise Mennicke to investigate the effectiveness of a national violence prevention program while receiving valuable mentorship and professional development in the process.

Monday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day, and it is the appropriate date for the grand opening ceremony for UNC Charlotte’s new Veterans Park.The park was conceived by Christopher Orr ’18 as a place on campus to recognize UNC Charlotte’s historical connections to veteran students and to honor all past, present and future veterans who will attend or work at the University.

Alumni panel encourages students to get involved in the democratic process.

Victoria Watlington ’13 (D) won the Charlotte City Council District 3 primary last month, and with no general election opponent, she is elected to the council.

Famed historian visits campus, Johnson Alumni Way opens and 49er Democracy Experience kicks off.