Research

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 […]

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 […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate recently spoke with The Charlotte Observer about the inspiration behind her upcoming Hip-Hop conference, her experience growing up immersed in a family of artists and how her insatiable curiosity led her to see dance as a tool to understand and preserve history. Tate has danced and choreographed for most […]

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

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

Dance student Naiya Graham was an OUR Summer Research Scholar.

The Charlotte Observer explores the work of Professor of Ceramics Lydia Thompson in a feature story by Liz Bertrand.

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate is one of three choreographers to receive a 2025-26 North Carolina Choreographic Fellowship from Trillium Arts. The two-week fellowship will provide Tate and a group of four dancers with financial support, lodging and studio space at the Trillium Arts campus in Mars Hill, North Carolina, in June 2026. “Trillium […]

Music students Abigail Roscoe and Will Wiand were OUR Summer Research Scholars.

Architecture Professor Sabri Gokmen mentored two OUR Summer Research Scholars.