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The UNC Charlotte online bachelor’s degree in respiratory therapy is ranked fifth nationally in the 2019-2020 BestColleges rankings. To compile its rankings, BestColleges reviews data from National Center for Education Statistics. The organization considers the following factors: Academics & Learner Support (50% of total score); Affordability (25% of total score); and Online Programming (25% of […]

UNC Charlotte alumna Teresa Lane has established the Teresa Parham Lane Endowed Nursing Scholarship to assist undergraduate students pursuing a nursing degree. With her $25,000 gift, Lane hopes to reach “underdog students” who may find it difficult to maintain a high grade-point average. As a student who struggled with grades herself, Lane wants to give […]

The latest issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ) focuses on how technology and big data can impact healthcare in North Carolina. The issue was co-edited by Dr. Michael Thompson, associate chair of the UNC Charlotte Department of Public Health Sciences, and Dr. Michael Dulin, director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation. “We […]

Shortly after San Antonio Assistant City Manager and UNC Charlotte Health Services Research alumna Colleen Bridger helped open San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center, a crew from conspiracy website InfoWars showed up to shoot a video stoking fears that the influx of immigrants would bring Ebola and other infectious diseases into the city. Rather than slam […]

Dr. Julian Montoro-Rodriguez, Professor of Gerontology and Social Work and former Director of the Gerontology program, has received the 2019 Evelyn Berger Award from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Aging Coalition. The award recognizes outstanding contributions an individual or organization has made to address and support older adult issues. The mission of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Aging Coalition […]

Health officials and leading researchers in North Carolina and South Carolina have created a new collaborative effort to end the HIV epidemic in both states. Carolinas United to End HIV (CUE-HIV) is a partnership between the State of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the State of South Carolina Department of Health and […]

The gift agreement is dated the 14th of April 2019, the day that would have been their 35th wedding anniversary. To remember a lifetime of love and support and a career of caring, on that day Scott Hill (’83) made official the Susan P. Hill Memorial Oncology Scholarship. The $25,000 gift will establish a fund […]

Social Work Undergraduate Program Director and Clinical Assistant Professor Sonyia Richardson has been awarded the 2019-20 Lucille P. and Edward C. Giles Dissertation-Year Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship supports UNC Charlotte doctoral students as they work to complete a dissertation in pursuit of their degree. It allows students in the final stages of their program to […]

America’s food deserts have proven resistant to innovation in the past, with efforts like mobile grocery trucks and community gardens making at best a small dent in the problem. Now, the private and public sectors are betting on technology to provide solutions for the 37 million Americans living in neighborhoods without ready access to fresh […]

by: Julia Stullken, Master of Public Health student UNC Charlotte was recently named a “Leader” by the Brookings Institution. Brookings is a nonprofit policy organization that conducts research that encourages innovative ways to solve societal issues. Their recent article, titled “Ladders, labs, or laggards? Which public universities contribute most” analyzes the efforts of hundreds of […]