Awards

The UNC Charlotte Faculty Awards Ceremony was held on Monday, May 13 and two College of Science professors were recognized with some of the University’s most prestigious awards. Adam Reitzel, professor of biological sciences, was awarded the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, which recognizes research excellence.  Reitzel serves as the graduate program director for the […]

Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber recognized researchers across the University with more than $1 million or more in active external funding at a reception on March 27. The Million Dollar Research Circle, one of several new initiatives to support research through the Division of Research, honors faculty who have received federal and state grants, as well as […]

With a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Bao-Hua Song aims to achieve two goals: develop new soybean varieties diverse enough to resist the world’s most damaging soybean pest and advance UNC Charlotte as a leader in plant science.  Soybean cyst nematode, a plant-parasitic roundworm that targets the roots of soybean and other legume plants, […]

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 Shan Yan, professor and associate chair for research in the Department of Biological Sciences, is the 2023 recipient of the Education Award from the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. Yan was recognized for his long-standing dedication to educating and mentoring future generations of scientists in the field of environmental mutagenesis. He […]

The NIH proposal titled “Statistical Methods for Efficacy Trials of Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibodies Against Genetically-Diverse Pathogens”, Co-PIed by Dr. Yanqing Sun with the investigators from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UNC Chapel Hill, has received the MERIT extension award. The award gives five additional years of $100,000 each year of funding support to Dr.Yanqing Sun as the […]

Creating supportive learning environments that enable students to succeed is a hallmark of Charlotte faculty members, and this year’s nominees for the University’s teaching excellence awards exemplify that commitment. For the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence, finalists are Paula Connolly, professor, English; M.Lyn Exum, associate professor, criminal justice and criminology; and Amy Good, […]

Michael Walter joined the faculty at UNC Charlotte in 2011. Since then, he has secured over $2.5 million in external grant funding and published two dozen papers. He is the inventor of co-inventor for three patents, one of the patents is licensed to a local company.  His research program, and his real-world teaching illustrations, are built […]

Congratulations to Dr. Shan Yan on the 2022 Outstanding Data Science Faculty Research Award! Each year, SDS awards an SDS faculty member for their significant achievements in data science research. As this year’s winner, Dr. Yan will receive a plaque acknowledging his outstanding research contribution and a $2,000 research award that can be used to […]

Please join the department in congratulating Dr. Kirill Afonin for being named this year’s recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal! The First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal was first awarded in 1988 and recognizes outstanding scholarship, creativity, and research among senior full-time faculty members. Each year the University, with support from First Citizens Bank, […]

Congratulations to Michelle Pass on being named a 2022 recipient of the Excellence in Leadership award by the UNC Charlotte Alumni Association and the Black Alumni Chapter. In recognition of her accomplishments, she will be honored at an Excellence in Leadership Awards Luncheon on Friday, October 21 at the UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel and Conference […]