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Beginning a research project can feel like diving into a vast ocean of information. Students often spend untold hours swimming through a broad research topic, as they seek to address issues that perplex and warrant an answer.

People think of wind as an energy source with few limits, offering an unending power source with distinct capacity advantages over sources that deplete, such as fossil fuel. Yet, new research suggests that the power capacity of large-scale wind farms may have been significantly overestimated.

The New Books Network is featuring a podcast with Richard W. Leeman, communication studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and his co-editor, Bernard Duffy, about their book The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches.

Communication studies faculty members Daniel Grano and Margaret Quinlan and graduate student Elliot Hamer presented “Did Race and Money Matter? Discrimination in the N.C. Eugenics Program”

Faculty in UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences published over two dozen books in 2012, contributing to the university’s research and the telling of stories that help make sense of the world.

Knowledge lives in research. As scholars pursue answers to big questions and researchers push the boundaries of what we already know, knowledge shifts, grows, and expands. The vitality of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is linked to the vitality of its faculty’s research. In fiscal year 2012, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences […]

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences student Hannah Martin received a standing ovation from fellow students and other audience members at UNC Charlotte’s commencement on Dec. 15, when she joined Chancellor Philip L. Dubois and Dean Nancy A. Gutierrez before the crowd in the Dale F. Halton Arena.

The UNC Charlotte Forensics team brought home team and individual awards from the Collegiate Forensic Association Holiday Forensics Tournament in early December, placing sixth overall. Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia hosted the tournament.

UNC Charlotte faculty member Jean-Claude Thill has received the Hirotada Kohno Award for outstanding service to the Regional Science Association International. Thill is the Knight Distinguished Knight Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He will take office as president of […]

Shawn Long, chair of the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at UNC Charlotte, has received the 2012 Outstanding Service Award from the African American Communication and Culture Division and the Black Caucus of the National Communication Association. The award honors an individual who exemplifies excellence in service, in recognition […]

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 […]