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Belk College Researchers Seek to Enhance Technology’s Benefits, Lower Risks
   August 20, 2024
Technology – for all its benefits – sometimes sparks unintended challenges that require new ideas to solve. Solutions of this kind – grounded in research that advances technology’s positive aspects and reduces its risks for individuals and organizations – are exactly what Dongsong Zhang and Lina Zhou from the Belk College of Business create. “The research we do is motivated...

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10,000th Rehabilitated Raptor Released on Campus
   August 16, 2024
The College of Science hosted the Carolina Raptor Center as they released their 10,000th rehabilitated raptor on Saturday, Aug. 10. The red-tailed hawk spent 58 days in CRC’s hospital facility and was released into the trees at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion in front of a crowd of guests, including families and CRC volunteers. The event was held on campus where the center was...

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Annalise Tolley Receives P.E.O. Scholar Award
   August 14, 2024
Annalise Tolley, a doctoral student in the Health Psychology program, recently became Charlotte’s fourth recipient of the highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Award.   The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) provide merit-based awards for women who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree. They are provided by the P.E.O Sisterhood, an organization focused on helping women participate in...

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Rasmussen and Adu side-by-side headshots
Rasmussen and Adu Receive Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
The Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding doctoral research at UNC Charlotte.
   July 5, 2024
Congratulations to Monica Rasmussen '24, Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, and Providence Adu '24, Ph.D. in Geography, on receiving the Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2024. Each year, the Distinguished Dissertation Award is presented by the Graduate School Dean to recognize exceptional research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte....

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Yelixza Avila
Yelixza Avila: From First-Gen to Postdoc
   May 17, 2024
Growing up in the small West Texas border town of Tornillo, Yelixza Avila viewed military service as her only way to experience life beyond her hometown. But the first-generation college student persevered in pursuit of higher education, enrolling at nearby Sul Ross State, where she studied biology and chemistry. “Ten weeks in the summer in West Texas collecting bugs was the best of times and...

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UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business receives national Insight Into Diversity 2024 Inspiring Programs in Business Award
Honor recognizes Doctorate in Business Administration’s successes
   March 4, 2024
UNC Charlotte has received the 2024 Inspiring Programs in Business Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, for the Doctorate in Business Administration in The Belk College of Business. Charlotte is one of only two universities in North Carolina to receive the recognition this year. The national award spotlights programs, particularly at universities and colleges, that offer comprehensive...

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Top 50 Best Online Master's Degrees Rankings
UNC Charlotte online master’s degree programs recognized in national rankings
Three master’s disciplines ranked by U.S. News, including top 50 recognition for education & nursing
   February 15, 2024
UNC Charlotte’s online graduate programs have again received national recognition in the U.S. News...

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Adam Reitzel
Adam Reitzel Selected to Lead Grant Writing Development for the Graduate & Postdoctoral Writing Center
NSF and NIH grant recipient has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications
   December 12, 2023
Adam Reitzel, Professor of Biological Sciences and co-director for the CIPHER Center, was recently named Faculty Fellow of Grant Writing in the new UNC Charlotte Graduate & Postdoctoral Writing Center (GPWC).  As a Faculty Fellow, Reitzel will bring his exceptional scholarly writing experience to aid the development of grant writing talent among postdoctoral fellows and graduate students...

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Teaching Excellence
Exum, Beete Praised for Teaching Excellence
   September 28, 2023
M. Lyn Exum, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Deborah Beete, senior lecturer and director, Masters of Public Health Program, are the 2023 recipients of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence and UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence, respectively. Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte.

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Govan and Wu
Govan, Wu Receive 2022-23 Graduate School Awards
Pair lauded for their leadership and support for graduate education.
   September 25, 2023
The 2022-23 Graduate Program Excellence Award recipients, originally announced in May, were honored Sept. 20 in a reception held in the Student Union Art Gallery. Honorees are shown with Dr. Pinku Mukherjee, Interim Dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. Tom Reynolds, Dean Emeritus. Dr. Jy Wu, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, was selected to receive the Thomas L....

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