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Research is fundamental to the mission of UNC Charlotte. New knowledge and creative works change the world and shape the future of the University. Charlotte values research in all its forms, including scholarly inquiry, discovery, exploration, innovation, entrepreneurship, creative activities, community engagement and/or interdisciplinary endeavors.

UNC Charlotte’s research endeavors are distinct:

  • Among the 229 public doctoral-granting research universities in the United States, 124 hold the Carnegie Community Engaged University classification. Carnegie’s community engagement classification signifies that UNC Charlotte collaborates with its larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in the context of partnership and reciprocity
  • UNC Charlotte is among the 80 public universities that have earned the APLU's Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation. The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities designation recognizes that UNC Charlotte has demonstrated a meaningful, ongoing and substantial commitment to economic and community development, growth and economic opportunity

Significant research activities are focused in UNC System recognized centers and institutes. And in 2023, Charlotte launched 12 new pilot centers to foster synergistic research initiatives. In 2022, Ventureprise became the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

NSF grants awarded CCI researchers to explore ways AI can aid aging population, patient diagnoses

April 17, 2023
Srijan Das and Xiang Zhang, two first-year faculty researchers in the College of Computing and Informatics, have received funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate how artificial intelligence can benefit older adults and others in health care settings.

Charlotte research expenditures among top third in U.S., led by computer and information sciences

April 3, 2023
UNC Charlotte’s upward trajectory toward top-tier research university status is supported by a recent national report of research expenditures for U.S. colleges and universities.

Researchers highlight new strategies in fight against cancer

March 16, 2023
Cancer, which affects millions every year, requires proteins to spread through the body. In a new strategy to beat the wide-ranging disease, scientists are sabotaging its protein factories.

Charlotte researcher Liyue Fan is exploring solutions to protect data privacy

March 13, 2023
The most important digital currency in ecommerce is data. As personal information is collected and shared, risks to individual privacy climb, and UNC Charlotte computer scientist Liyue Fan is researching novel ways to better protect individuals’ personal data.

Kirill Afonin, Margaret Quinlan honored for research and mentoring excellence

March 8, 2023
Charlotte faculty members Kirill Afonin and Margaret Quinlan are the 2023 recipients of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal and the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award, respectively.

Advanced computing at UNC Charlotte indicates current antibodies effective against newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5

February 16, 2023
A team at UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm, has used artificial intelligence to rapidly assess the public health implications of the newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 variant.

Researchers examined social media response to 2019 campus shooting

January 23, 2023
Faculty members from the College of Health and Human Services and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences studied the social media response to the campus shooting that occurred in April 2019.

Charlotte, Yale School of Public Health research study says annual or biannual COVID-19 boosters optimal for fighting COVID

January 18, 2023
Updated boosters administered on an annual or biannual basis greatly reduce the long-term risk of infection from endemic COVID-19.

Division of Research and business partners celebrate successes

December 8, 2022
UNC Charlotte’s business and innovation partners returned to the University Wednesday, Dec. 7, after a three-year, pandemic-related hiatus for the Research and Business Partners Celebration hosted by the Division of Research.

Labor market strong, inflation persists into 2023

December 7, 2022
The gap between the consumer price index for all urban consumers and the Fed Funds Rate remains too wide to reflect progress toward inflation reduction, according to John Connaughton, director of the North Carolina Economic Forecast.

From rural Texas to the national spotlight: The making of an equity researcher

December 5, 2022
Brittany Anderson, a recent recipient of a CAREER National Science Foundation grant for her pioneering research on gifted Black girls in early STEM education. In her rise to national prominence, she has never forgotten the historical legacies of the places she came from.

Reducing recidivism through coaching

November 29, 2022
UNC Charlotte researchers are piloting a novel approach they hope will break the cycle of recidivism leading to a new national model for parole and probation practices.