Sarah Haas received several awards and travel opportunities recently. 

First, she received the National Science Foundation RCN FORECAST (Research Coordination Network: Forecasts Of Resource and Environmental Changes: Data Assimilation Science and Technology) training grant of $2,000. The goal of the FORECAST initiative is: i) broader dissemination of data assimilation (DA) methods that scientists can use to address environmental challenges and ii) identification of ecological problems and research themes that can benefit from new or enhanced modeling and analysis tools.  The grant allows Haas to pursue a research exchange outside of UNC Charlotte in order to learn new statistical and data-model assimilation techniques. She’ll be working in the lab of Dr. Mevin Hooten at...

Congratulations to Liz Shockey, Ph.D. student in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis, who has been elected the Student Representative to the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) Steering Committee for 2012.  Shockey has recently been in the news receiving the Best Paper Presentation at the GPSG Graduate Research Fair and is a recipient of the Graduate School's 2012 Herschel and Cornelia Everett Foundation First-Year Graduate Fellowship.

The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte has maintained its prestigious business and accounting accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Only 649 schools of business, or less than five percent worldwide, have earned this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education.  Of these, only 178 institutions have earned specialized accreditation for their accounting programs.

To maintain AACSB accreditation, a business program must undergo a rigorous internal review every five years.  The program must demonstrate its commitment to a series of quality standards, including faculty qualifications, strategic management of resources, interactions of faculty and students, and a commitment to continuous improvement and achievement of learning goals in degree programs.  In addition to developing and implementing a mission-driven plan to satisfy AACSB’s 21 business quality...

Dr. Fred Spooner, in the College of Education’s Department of Special Education and Child Development, will receive the 2012 TED/Pearson Award for Excellence in Education. The honor, from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Teacher Education Division, will be presented at the organization’s annual meeting in Denver.

According to the CEC, the TED/Pearson Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual who has “demonstrated an exemplary commitment to teacher education in special education; preparation of future leaders and/or quality educators; and/or research supporting the preparation of teachers and/or delivery of services to children with disabilities, legislative...

UNC Charlotte was recently featured in a Inside Higher Ed news article.   "The story supports the University's strategic messages that we are NC's urban research university," says John Bland, UNC Charlotte Director of Public Relations.  "We're integral to the social and economic fabric of the region, and we provide a high quality/high value education worthy of support. The story supports our brand channels of research, scholarship/academic life and culture/community. "  Read the re-printed article.

The College of Education’s Dr. Claudia Flowers has been called a professor who sets the standard for mentoring graduate students. For this distinction, she is the 2012 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Award.  Read the article.

UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics announced that Dr. Mohamed Shehab, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems, has been selected to receive a Google Research Award.  Dr. Shehab received $55,000 for his research proposal, “Third Party Application Policy Management in Social Networks”. The project will investigate policy management mechanisms, to provide recommendations to aid users when deciding on privacy policies related to social network applications. The proposed policy recommendation mechanisms will be developed and integrated in current state of the art authorization architectures.

The Google Research Awards program is aimed at identifying and supporting world-class, full-time faculty,...