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UNC Charlotte Organizational Science Ph.D. student David Askay has received one of the most prestigious national research awards presented to students doing communication studies research.  The National Communication Association presents The Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for the top-ranked student-authored paper from all NCA units that competitively rank papers for programming at the NCA annual […]

Nancy A. Gutierrez, Dean of UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, has been elected President of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), the nation’s most influential association for academic leaders in the liberal arts and sciences. Gutierrez will take office in November 2013. CCAS represents more than 500 member institutions […]

The UNC Charlotte Model United Nations team in late October brought home two of the top awards presented at the National Model United Nations Conference in Washington, D.C., winning an Outstanding Delgation Award and a Position Paper Award.

(Pictured, from left: Chancellor Philip L. Dubois; Julie S. Harris, senior vice president and corporate treasury CFO/Controller, Bank of America; recipient Joanne Robinson; Provost Joan Lorden; and Jeffrey Price, music professor and chairman of the Bank of America Award Committee.) Associate professor Joanne Robinson from the Religious Studies Department in the College of Liberal Arts […]

Jon Marks has won the 2012 prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association. The GAD supports innovative scholarship that transcends boundaries that divide the various fields of anthropology. It awards the Cross-Field Award each year for a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years […]

UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty members Dan Morrill and Kathy Reichs were among the eight ASC Honors recipients on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 in recognition of their impact on Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s cultural community. The Arts & Science Council (ASC) and Charlotte Symphony partnered for ASC Honors during an evening celebration in the […]

(Pictured, left to right: Aliaga-Buchenau, Robinson.) Two faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are among the five finalists for UNC Charlotte’s top teaching award, the 2012 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, associate professor of German and comparative literature, and Joanne Robinson, associate professor of religious studies, join […]

A memorial is scheduled in honor of Jordan Slusher, a religious studies student in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences who died this summer. The memorial will be at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, at Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

As part of the inaugural Charlotte Research Scholars program, students from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and other UNC Charlotte colleges spent their summers alongside faculty conducting original and cutting-edge research. The program provided summer research opportunities to 50 undergraduate students, of which 31 are majors in disciplines in the College of Liberal […]

The community is in mourning following the death on June 9 of religious studies and psychology major Jordan Daniel Slusher, 21, of Gastonia. Jordan’s death in Stone Mountain State Park has been ruled an accident, according to news reports quoting the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation.  He and friends had hiked to the […]