College News

Madison File, a junior Levine Scholar majoring in chemistry and psychology, has been named a 2025–26 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, recognizing her dedication to campus leadership and community-focused research. File’s outreach spans support for families facing serious illness, those experiencing homelessness and heart disease in communities of color. On campus, she’s actively involved […]

Andrew Goff, lecturer of biological sciences in the Klein College of Science, is a finalist for the 2025 UNC Charlotte Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenured faculty. Goff is an energetic educator whose passion for biology and dedication to students have shaped him into a standout instructor and mentor at UNC Charlotte. Trained as a scientist […]

UNC Charlotte researcher Danillo Augusto, Ph.D., was recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an immunomics project that is using a new approach to study human immune response and autoimmune diseases.  Augusto and his team of researchers are employing a novel method using long-read sequencing technology. The research design […]

Congratulations to these Klein College of Science employees with new titles and positions for 2025-26. Biological Sciences Ellen Wisner, teaching professorShankari Somayaji, associate teaching professorJunya Tomida, associate professorPatricjia van Oosten-Hawle, associate professor Chemistry Jessica White, associate teaching professor Mathematics and Statistics Sarah Birdsong, associate teaching professorDuan Chen, professorKevin McGoff, professorYinghao Pan, associate professorArindam Roy, associate […]

UNC Charlotte students joined other citizen scientists across Georgia, Florida, Alabama and North and South Carolina to participate in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census last weekend. The goal of the census was to capture a point-in-time data set of the number and variety of pollinators, and the flowers that attract them. The census was organized […]

Susan K. Michael, senior lecturer of chemistry, was selected as the University marshal for UNC Charlotte’s first-ever summer commencement ceremony, held on Saturday, August 9. Faculty are selected for this distinguished role based on their leadership and service to the campus community, and faculty excellence in their teaching and professional achievements. She was recognized last […]

Ean Bass grew up in Mooresville immersed in motorsports, deciding to pursue mechanical engineering with the encouragement of his father who spent his career as a race car engineer. Bass took college classes at Mitchell Community College during his junior and senior years of high school, so when COVID-19 began, it was easy to continue […]

More than 130 researchers from North and South Carolina convened in the UNC Charlotte Cone University Center on Wednesday, June 11, for the inaugural Carolina Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation.  The symposium was hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science in the Klein College of […]

The Klein College of Science held their annual award ceremony on Monday, May 12, in the Cone University Center. With the recent formation of the College, the KCOS Dean’s office established awards to recognize excellence in research, teaching and mentoring, leadership and service, and community engagement. These recognitions will be awarded annually following a nomination […]

Klein College of Science researchers Pinku Mukherjee and Susan Trammell were each awarded a research and development grant from NCInnovation this week. NCInnovation is a nonprofit organization that bridges the gap between academia and industry to help advance research from North Carolina public universities from proof-of-concept to commercial investment and viability. The grants were awarded after […]