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The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens team is awaiting the bloom of a fast-growing titan arum, often called a corpse flower due the pungent smell it emits during a bloom.  “Cadavera,” was recently named through a contest on social media and is projected by experts to bloom in the next three to 12 days. Once Cadavera blooms, it […]

UNC Charlotte’s International Festival, the University’s longest-running cultural event, is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27, in and around the Barnhardt Student Activity Center. Admission and parking are free. “The International Festival is a celebration of the broad international flavor of UNC Charlotte and the greater Charlotte area,” said Joe Hoff, director […]

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 across the […]

UNC Charlotte received the Bike-Friendly Business of the Year award at the city of Charlotte’s 2025 Bike Charlotte Awards held last month. “UNC Charlotte is proud to be recognized as a bike-friendly business,” said Mike Lizotte, university sustainability officer. “We were nominated by a neighbor who cited our bicycle lanes, greenways and Niner Transit as […]

UNC Charlotte was recently featured on NPR‘s flagship program All Things Considered, broadcast nationwide. The segment spotlighted a new engineering course where students are helping redesign bridges damaged by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

For eight years, Andrew Goff, a lecturer in biology, has invited Charlotte students to clean up local creeks as members of his Adopt-a-Spot crew, the Trash Taggers. Three to five times per semester, Goff and crew travel to creek beds around Mecklenburg County, where students wade into the murky water and retrieve trash. To date, […]

Energy Innovation Review features the microalgae window research of Professor Kyoung Hee Kim. Read the full article here.

Jennifer Pagán, a 2005 Ph.D. graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been featured in the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s 2025 “Faces of American Innovation” report for her revolutionary work on UV-C LED water disinfection technology. The annual report honors a prestigious group of researchers, entrepreneurs, and administrators whose groundbreaking work, made possible by the Bayh-Dole […]

UNC Charlotte received the Inspiring Nonprofit Award at the 2025 Sustain Charlotte Awards held Monday, April 28, in recognition of educating future leaders in sustainability, while setting the pace on campus and beyond for a sustainable future.

Belk Plaza became a hub of environmental advocacy this week as UNC Charlotte students and organizations gathered to celebrate Earth Day with a powerful message: sustainability starts with awareness, action and community. From a honey stand to outdoor leadership booths, the event highlighted student-led efforts that spearhead environmental consciousness both on and off campus.