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Innovative research driving scientific discovery

The Klein College of Science supports UNC Charlotte as a top-tier research university that drives innovation. With deeply engaged interdisciplinary research in biological sciences, mathematics and statistics, chemistry, physics and optics, and the botanical gardens, the Klein College of Science is advancing the future through inquiry, research and creative discovery.

Our students and researchers collaborate with experts across campus and industry partners in the Charlotte region and beyond, improving economic development and creating novel solutions for an advancing world.

Klein College faculty are nationally recognized, including early career and NSF CAREER Awards
Many faculty serve as fellows of professional societies: Optical Society of America, SPIE, IEEE, American Chemical, American Math, American Statistical
Year over year growth in Klein College of Science external funding for the past five years

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To further research efforts in improving delivery and impact of cancer treatments through nanoscale science, the lab of Juan Vivero-Escoto,…

Keeping her native land of Bangladesh close to her heart, Farida Yasmin has come to UNC Charlotte to research the…

Adam Reitzel’s marine sciences lab includes three National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows (and other NSF grantees). Recipients of these…

UNC Charlotte researchers Kirill Afonin and Ian Marriott lead research with novel RNA-based nanomaterials that hold promise for better treatments…