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On Sunday May 2nd, the STORM club sponsored an end of semester event for meteorology students and faculty to celebrate another great semester, to honor the graduating seniors, and to give out annual awards. The event took place at the Alumni Pavilion on campus and of course had great weather! Meteorology faculty and students gather […]

Recently a few of our PhD students received various awards. Please congratulate them. Congratulations to Providence Adu on his receipt of a Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship. The Baker fellowship is awarded to the applicant who best demonstrates evidence of creative and rigorous solutions applied to challenging public and social policy problems. Congratulations to […]

GES Ph.D. candidate Barbara Pinson Lash is working with the Hidden Valley neighborhood to establish a tutoring program for young students. The Hidden Valley Family of Tutors program was spearheaded by PhD Candidate Barbara Pinson Lash with UNCC’s Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP), along with Hidden Valley Residents and Hidden Valley Elementary School. https://www.wbtv.com/2021/04/21/community-garden-planting-seeds-hope-positivity-hidden-valley-neighborhood/

Undergraduate student Claire Patrick was awarded North Carolina Arc Users Group Undergraduate Scholarship. Congradulations Claire. North Carolina is a leading state in the geospatial industry, due, in part, to the excellence exhibited by the GIS professionals that live and work in this great state. In that spirit, NCAUG strives to ensure that the next generation […]

The College of Computing and Informatics is sponsoring a virtual interdisciplinary panel discussion, called “Mars Landing and Exploration: Why We Should Care.”Our Dr. Eppes is a panelist. Friday, April 23, 12:30-1:30. Click here to attend.

Three Geography Ph.D. students won national awards last week at the annual AAG confrence. Sara Toranbene received a fellowship from the Urban Geography Specialty Group for her research: A collection of economic possibilities: Latinx Diverse Economies in Boston and Charlotte. Elina Shepard was runner-up for the AAG-Kauffman Award for Best Student Paper in Geography and […]

From Inside UNC Charlotte: “Every great city has a great research university.” Most of my colleagues have heard me say this a time or two. This certainly is true of the Charlotte region — and UNC Charlotte. Driving this home are the members of our faculty recognized recently for their promise with Faculty Early Career […]

Behnam Nikparvar, won first place in the 2021 Graduate Research Symposium with a paper titled “Remotely Sensed Large Population Displacement and Return”. The Authors are: Behnam Nikparvar, Jean-Claude Thill, James Walsh The population of forcibly displaced people has doubled to 79.5 million since 2010. Reliable information about large population displacement and return resulting from wars […]

A recent article appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences features Department of Geography & Earth Sciences Professor Pat Fall, whose research reveals that humans first arrived in the northern Bahamas about 830 CE, 200 years earlier than thought previously, after spreading rapidly through the entire Bahamian archipelago in less than century. […]

One of our majors, Jonese Pipkin, was highlighted in this story by Susan Messina with the university. “Jonese Pipkin ’20 plans to put her degree in environmental science to work by giving a voice to those unfairly impacted by environmental injustice.” See the full article here. https://inside.uncc.edu/news-features/2021-03-15/unc-charlotte-leading-african-american-degrees