College of Science

Casey Rimland, a biology and psychology honors undergraduate in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at UNC Charlotte, recently received an eight-year scholarship through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford Cambridge Scholars Program. Rimland, a Charlotte native who is graduating this May, will pursue a combined medical/doctorate degree through the NIH Oxford Cambridge […]

New research shows it may be no accident when doctors observe how patients suffering from both breast cancer and arthritis seem to have more aggressive cancer. However, the new-found interaction between the two diseases may also suggest a possible treatment. A potential relationship between metastatic breast cancer and autoimmune arthritis, as suggested by past epidemiological […]

This year’s nominees for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ Full-time Lecturer Award for Teaching Excellence and Part-time Lecturer Award for Teaching Excellence have been announced. Six faculty have been nominated for the Full-time Lecturer Award and four faculty have been nominated for the Part-time Lecturer Award presented by the college.

The spring plant sale at UNC Charlotte’s Botanical Gardens is still scheduled for Friday and Saturday, despite a fire on Wednesday night in one of the greenhouse rooms. The spring plant sale is the gardens’ largest sale of the year and its major fundraising event. All proceeds support the greenhouse and gardens’ operations and are […]

In December 2011, A Celebration of Faculty Achievement recognized College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty in two categories:  those faculty who have received external funding during the previous academic year and those faculty who have published books.  128 faculty members in the College fall into one or the other of these two categories, and […]

Theoretical physicist Greg Gbur shares a slice of his life — as nano-optics researcher, teacher, science writer and skydiver.

Five College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines will receive Bonnie Cone Fellowships from UNC Charlotte ADVANCE to support their scholarship and leadership.

An article from the summer 2010 issue of Exchange magazine UNC Charlotte professor Michael Klibanov uses mathematics to see through walls. An oversimplification of the process? Perhaps, but the end result is one that has piqued the interest of the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO). They hope to use Klibanov’s work to detect and identify […]

A group of UNC Charlotte chemistry graduate students, armed with nothing but a video camera and a catchy tune, submitted a video called “NanoGirls” to the American Chemical Society (ACS) for their second annual “nano video” contest. Organized as an outgrowth of ACS’ scientific publishing in the area of nanoscale science, the contest seeks creative […]

It may be news to its bankers, but Charlotte, the biggest city in North Carolina and a major center of the American financial industry, is actually an old growth forest. At least that’s the way the barred owls see it. Charlotte is famous for having two kinds of green. It is home to two of […]