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.

Faculty authors and grant recipients from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) were recognized for their scholarly achievements at a reception Dec. 8.

CLAS Dean Nancy Gutierrez expressed her appreciation for the efforts of the faculty, whom she called the knowledge leaders in the University community. For 2010, CLAS faculty authored or edited 32 books.

"In keeping with the mission of the University, nine books are designed for classroom use in support of teaching; eight are written for a general audience and appeal to the community; 12 demonstrate our global impact; and four are devoted to topics related to diversity," said Gutierrez. With regard to external funding, 98 faculty members from 17 departments received grants between July 2009 and June 2010.

Click here for a list of grant recipients. Click here for a list of published authors.

Charlotte, N.C., which has experienced dynamic urban growth without losing all the pastoral charms of the North Carolina piedmont, may offer scientists an ideal living laboratory to study what makes a "human-dominated ecosystem" tick. Researchers at UNC Charlotte, led by Ross Meentemeyer, Geography and Earth Sciences, have been awarded $300,000 by NSF's Urban Long-Term Research Areas Exploratory Research Projects (ULTRA-EX) competition to study Charlotte's complex urban environment.

Heather Smith and Bill Graves, UNC Charlotte geography professors and editors of the new book “Charlotte, N.C.: The Global Evolution of a New South City,” will be featured Nov. 17 in the final installment of the popular series “Community Conversations: Changing Times…Changing Minds,” which will focus on Charlotte’s evolution.