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Charlotte tapped again to host NC Principal Fellows
   January 23, 2025
For 31 years and counting, Cato College has been one of the homes to the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program (NCPFP), and the UNC System recently awarded the college over $4.5 million to continue that tradition for another six years. NCPFP received 11 applications for grants that will be funded from Fiscal Year 2026 to FY32. The state provides funding for up to eight principal...

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AI Meets Immunology: Reimagining Personalized Medicine
Charlotte researchers develop Artificial Intelligence-Cell to design precision interventions
   January 20, 2025
By Anna Holt Photography by Kat Lawrence Imagine that healthcare professionals could predict how a patient’s immune system would respond to a treatment before the medicine ever reached the clinic. Envision vaccines with fewer side effects or cancer therapies precisely tailored to each patient’s unique biology. A collaboration between UNC Charlotte...

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The Power of Positivity and a Mighty Pen
Award-winning Niner Times reporter Bryson Foster ’23 is writing his way to sports journalism success
   January 16, 2025
Bryson Foster ’23 can pinpoint the moment he became a lifelong sports fan. Summer 2009, Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark, Reds vs. Nationals. Outfielder Jonny Gomes whacked three home runs, a thrill that cemented for 9-year-old Bryson a decision to cheer for the Reds forever. His first major league ball game ignited a passion that continues to grow. The backdrop for the trip Foster and his...

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Art history professor named associate dean for research
   January 13, 2025
Jae Emerling is the new associate dean for research in the College of Arts + Architecture. This three-year appointment was effective with the start of the spring 2025 semester. As associate dean for research, Emerling will support the college’s research initiatives (both graduate and undergraduate) and the strategic pursuit of research and extramural funding. In consultation with the...

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Belk College researcher named top in nation, fourth globally in family business field
   January 10, 2025
Belk College of Business Professor Franz W. Kellermanns has again ranked first in the nation and fourth worldwide for family business research in an annual assessment by Texas State University. UNC Charlotte earned the No. 2 spot nationally and was ninth among universities worldwide. Texas State University released the Family Business Research Productivity Ranking in December...

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William Tolone Named Dean of Charlotte's Graduate School
Tolone joins the Graduate School from the College of Computing and Informatics
   January 9, 2025
William “Bill” Tolone has been named Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at UNC Charlotte. His appointment was approved in December, and he began the role Jan. 1, 2025. Previously, Tolone was an associate dean and professor in the College of Computing and Informatics. “His leadership on multi-institutional research initiatives and in administrative roles has played an...

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State of the Heart
A grad school romance led to a med-tech breakthrough that may save the lives of millions of patients
   January 8, 2025
On a brisk spring morning in 2018, Saravana ’03 M.S. and Katherine ’03 M.S., ’05 Ph.D. Kumar said goodbye to their two young children and left their home in Minnesota on one of the most high-stakes road trips of their lives. Their destination was a hospital in Quebec City where a 77-year-old patient was preparing to undergo surgery for a chronic heart condition. The patient had never met the...

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Driven to Innovate
Entrepreneur Igor Jablokov is reducing the distance between people and information through AI
   January 8, 2025
As Facebook, Google and smartphones were becoming more ubiquitous in society, the one-time IBM research engineer and program director Igor Jablokov ’01 MBA stood on a stage before an audience, opened a Motorola Razr flip phone and began to speak. Behind him on a giant screen, for all to see, his words appeared. The year was 2006, and the event was Five Ventures Challenge, an...

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Hultquist Takes First Place in 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Hultquist Takes First Place in 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Research communication event draws largest audience since inception
   December 9, 2024
Lauren Hultquist, a Master of Arts in Psychology student, received the top award in the 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for her presentation “Keyboard Warriors,” an examination of the nature of online anonymity, including its effect on dark personality traits.  The event, sponsored by the Thomas L. Reynolds Center for Graduate Life and Learning, was held Nov. 22 in the Rowe...

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Graduate Students Level Up their Careers with Industry-Ready Skills Program
   November 15, 2024
The Fall 2024 Accelerate to Industry (A2i) workshop series concluded last month, having connected 60 Charlotte graduate students to thought-provoking and career-enhancing presentations from distinguished experts representing Novant Health, TIAA, Pesta, Finnie and Associates, LLP, 704 Shop, and Siemens Energy.  A2i is a workforce development program that allows graduate students to explore...

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