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SoA Director is National Disaster Resilience Conference Keynote Speaker

Categories: News, Research Tags: Architecture

Blaine Brownell will present forward-thinking material strategies for designing and building to withstand disasters.

Dance Professor Awarded Major National Fellowship

Categories: News, Research Tags: Dance

Associate Professor of Dance Tamara Williams is one of 25 dance artists to receive a Dance/USA Fellowship to Artists. Established in 1982, Dance/USA is the national service organization for dance. Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists recognize dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories “who work at the intersection of social and embodied […]

UNC Charlotte Students Join Professional Artists for NYC Dance Production

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Last month, seven current students and two alumni had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to New York City to perform on a program with professional dancers at the Theatre at St. Jean’s. Dance majors and recent graduates shared the stage with members of Movement Migration, a company founded by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones […]

Wallace Foundation Grant to Fund Charlotte Study of Youth Arts Programs

Categories: News, Research Tags: COA+A, Theatre

An interdisciplinary team of six UNC Charlotte researchers and three local youth arts organizations has received a $500,000 grant from The Wallace Foundation to support an in-depth study of the impacts of arts engagement on youth participants, their families and those who provide the arts programming. Over the course of two and half years, the […]

Design Evolution

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Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim began developing microalgae-filled building façade systems years ago, prompted by an environmental science class in graduate school. Knowing algae’s ability to sequester carbon and improve air quality as well as potential uses as food or energy sources, she began to design window installations in which microalgae could grow. The […]

Professor Wins State Art Educator Award

Categories: News Tags: Art & Art History

Professor of Art Education Jane Dalton has received the 2025-26 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina Art Education Association (NCAEA). Dalton was recognized at the annual NCAEA Professional Development Conference, which was held in Asheboro, October 9-13. A state affiliate of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the NCAEA […]

Professor’s Mint Museum Exhibition Explores Complexity of Human Engagement with Nature

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On her first trip to the United States, when she was still a graduate student in her native Poland, Maja Godlewska spent the summer touring America’s national parks. Afterwards, her paintings of actual and imaginary landscapes became her thesis project and launched a lifetime of considering the sublime in nature and our sometimes fraught engagement with […]

New University City Coffee House is Latest Example of Alum’s Early Success

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Just five years after graduating, Alaa Bou Ghanem has established a successful architecture firm and new real estate development venture.

Dance Professor’s Rhode Island Residency Results in New Work

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Assistant Professor of Dance Alyah Baker’s “juste, juste” was performed August 24.

Charlotte Dance Professor Creates Work, Curates Festival for London Museum

Categories: News, Research Tags: Dance

Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones recently curated a dance festival for the National Maritime Museum in London.