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In recognition of his distinguished research and dedication to others’ scholarship over an almost 50-year career, UNC Charlotte sociology professor Murray Webster has received the national 2015 Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association’s Social Psychology Section.

For his work in helping to revitalize a challenged Charlotte neighborhood through urban design and planning, Dylan McKnight, a UNC Charlotte urban design and community planning graduate, received a top honor.

Meteorology student Ricky Matthews seeks to understand why people heed or ignore warnings and forecasts, making it his goal to improve the warning and information dissemination process so that lives can be saved during severe weather.

Students at UNC Charlotte are partnering with students in Russia to promote healthy living, through a collaboration created by program director Yuliya Baldwin and funded by the U.S. Department of State.

The City of Hamlet has hired UNC Charlotte Ph.D. student Chuck McShane as its next Museum Manager and Downtown Coordinator, with his post starting on Jan. 21.

UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of English JuliAnna Ávila and her co-editor Jessica Zacher Pandya have received the prestigious 2014 Edward B. Fry Book Award for their book that explores the intersection of critical and digital literacies and the impact on students and teachers.

Authors in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2014 researched, wrote and edited 32 books on an array of topics including primates of Vietnam, trends in drug use and distribution, Hispanic children’s literature, middle class white anti-racism, stalled peacemaking in Israel and Palestine, the meltdown of the middle class, the U.S. Court of Appeals, HIV/AIDS, ethics, and reality TV and discourse analysis.

A research paper co-authored by UNC Charlotte student and faculty researchers has been named the most influential research pieces related to health care disparities for 2014, according to the Culture of Health Reader Poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, considered the largest philanthropic efforts devoted to public health.

With deep sadness, the college notes the death of longtime faculty member James Holt McGavran, Jr., Professor of English, who passed away on Dec. 20, 2014. A visitation will be held at Hankins & Whittington Funeral Home in Charlotte on Friday, Dec. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m., and a funeral service will be held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in downtown Charlotte at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27.

UNC Charlotte graduate Barbara Coberly offers testament to the age-old saying that it is never too late to learn something new, as she completes her bachelor’s degree in sociology at age 81.