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Charlotte’s Model United Nations team won a record number of awards at the Southern Regional Model United Nations conference in Atlanta during November 18-20. Students representing Argentina, China, and Turkey won Distinguished Delegation and Germany won Outstanding Delegations. Additionally, seven student pairs won individual awards. Charlotte had seven alumni serving as conference leaders. Congratulations!

Dr. John Szmer, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, and his colleagues, Drs. Laura Moyer (University of Louisville), Susan Haire (University of Georgia), and Robert K. Christensen (Brigham Young University), published an article, “Sotomayor said people of color feel pressure to prove themselves every day. She’s right, our research finds,” in Monkey Cage of […]

Dr. Yaoyao Dai, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, and Dr. Luwei Rose Luqiu, Assistant Professor of the Department of Journalism of Hong Kong Baptist University, published “China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats like to talk tough,” in Monkey Cage of the Washington Post, May 12, 2021. The article is based on an analysis of […]

Election night 2020 proved big for Niner Nation. Former Student Body President Richard Hudson was reelected to the U.S. Congress. A record 14 alumni were elected to the N.C. General Assembly, and two gained seats on the N.C. Court of Appeals. For more information, please visit the full article here.

UNC Charlotte alumnae Susan DeVore ’81, Tracy Dodson ’97, ’98 and Pamela Wideman ’06 were recently named to the Charlotte Business Journal’s list of 2020 Newsmakers for their roles in leading Charlotte through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Please view the full article here.

The Millennium Fellowship’s 2nd year kicked off in August with a new cohort of 18 students. This year the Millennium Fellowship is a course set up to help students learn the leadership and project management skills necessary to develop projects. The projects students designed and started include those listed below. Students graduated as Millennium Fellows […]

Megan Bird, a Levine Scholar majoring in Political Science and Public Administration, is a finalist in contention for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. For more information, visit the full article here.

In November 2019, The Harshini de Silva Graduate Mentor selection committee named Dr. Suzanne Leland the 2020 recipient.

Dr. James Walsh received the First Citizens Scholar Award in November 2019.

In October 2019, Dr. Amber Knight and Dr. Joshua Miller presented their paper “Making Prenatal Screening Work for Women: Promoting Epistemic Justice for the Sake of Reproductive Autonomy” at the Association for Politial Theory Annual Conference at the University of California at Irvine.