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Fans at Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee witnessed the birth of a new home game tradition. After each of the 49ers’ three touchdowns, an Air Force ROTC cadet leapt up onto a platform in the end zone and, borne aloft by six other cadets, did push-ups to celebrate the score. The new push-up platform […]

Last month, Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted the Symphonic Band of Córdoba and the Polifonic Choir of Córdoba in a concert on October 15 at the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, a beautiful 19th-century opera house in Córdoba, Argentina. Both the band and the choir are publicly funded professional ensembles. The band performed […]

Three students in Professor Jefferson Ellinger’s Graduate Topic Design Studio have taken the top prizes in the 2017 Living Building Challenge-Los Angeles (LBC-LA) Collaborative Student Competition. The international competition invited students to design Pavilion Zero, which is envisioned as the main pavilion for the Los Angeles World’s Fair, if the city hosts the fair in […]

UNC Charlotte alumnus Curtis Petraglia was named one of Business Insider magazine’s “30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30” earlier this year. The list is based on advertising agency and peer nominations, as well as the magazine’s own research into candidate’s awards and campaigns. Curtis completed his BFA in Studio Art with a Concentration […]

Dance majors Makayla Church (dance education concentration) and Anna Edwards (dance performance, choreography, and theory concentration) presented research posters at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium on Saturday, November 4, at Campbell University. Both presented research completed at UNC Charlotte as Charlotte Research Scholars. Church’s project, mentored by Associate Professor Gretchen […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams has presented her research on the spiritual dances of the African Diaspora in two international conferences this fall. In October, she taught an Afro-Brazilian dance workshop and performed a solo work, “Of the Past,” at the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference at Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica. The theme […]

Students in the Department of Dance will perform the 2017 Fall Concert, November 16-19. The diverse program includes contemporary ballet, African-based choreography, and a work inspired by urban street dance, choreographed by guest artist Marcus White of White Werx. Associate Professor Delia Neil has choreographed two contemporary ballet works for the concert. Las Mujeres Fuertes […]

On October 29, the UNC Charlotte Department of Music hosted the Carol Brice Branch of North Carolina, the state branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. Dr. Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice and vice-president of the Carol Brice Branch, presided over the meeting. After the conclusion of the business meeting, the 20 […]

A small ensemble of music students will perform at the World Association of Arts in Education conference in Auckland, New Zealand, in November. The theme of the conference is Engaging WITH Communities, and its focus is to share and build research and practice that demonstrates creative pedagogies in community and/or institutional contexts. The students’ performance […]

Dr. Kyounghee Kim, associate professor of architecture, was awarded a 2017 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grant ($30,000) for Biophilic Architecture: Sustainable Materialization of Microalgae Facades – in support of her research on high-performance building envelope design. This is her second AIA Upjohn Award; she was awarded a 2013 AIA Upjohn Research Grant ($27,000) for Sustainable […]