n ew s b r i e f s Dubois Visits Leaders in Cabarrus County
Chancellor Dubois met leaders in Cabarrus County to enhance the strong ties between the county and UNC Charlotte.
ASC Gives Morrill, Reichs Lifetime Achievement Awards Dan Morrill and Kathy Reichs, both UNC Charlotte faculty members, were bestowed the lifetime achievement award from the Arts and Science Council. The ASC honor is granted to CharlotteMecklenburg residents in celebration of their lifetime achievements in the fields of either visual, design or performing arts, or history, literature or science. Morrill, a long-time history professor at UNC Charlotte, was honored for his work
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UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip L. Dubois visited Cabarrus County on Nov. 13 as part of the University’s initiative to strengthen regional support. The outreach effort features a series of focused visits to the 12 counties that comprise the greater Charlotte region. The goal is to strengthen relationships within the communities the University serves. Dubois has made similar trips to Gaston and Cleveland counties in recent months and will visit Rowan County Dec. 4. Currently, 1,659 students from Cabarrus County attend the university, including three Levine Scholars and three football players on the 49ers inaugural football team. Cabarrus in the field of history. He joined the UNC Charlotte staff in 1963 — he is the longest tenured faculty member in the school’s history — while also serving as consulting director of the CharlotteKathy Reichs Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission since 1974. Through his nearly 50 years at the University, he has helped not only students but the larger Charlotte community develop a better sense of history. He has helped the Historic Landmarks Commission deem more than 300 properties as historic, which represents about 25 percent of North Carolina’s total. Reichs was honored for her work in literature. The forensic anthropologistturned-author no longer teaches at the University, but remains a faculty member on indefinite leave. Reichs is most notable for creating the forensic science book series, which the television show, “Bones,” is based on. In the past, in addition to her time as a UNC Charlotte professor, Reichs lent her expertise to help educate medical examiners, law enforcement, disaster recovery teams and the military on how to better detect and recover human remains that are otherwise unidentifiable by normal means. These experiences have become the basis for her novels. For her, the science is key when it comes to her thrillers.
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is home to 6,355 UNC Charlotte alumni and is a major employer of Cabarrus County residents. Approximately 675 University employees live in the county. As part of this day-long visit, the chancellor delivered the keynote address at the Cabarrus Chamber State of the Region meeting. He visited with Bill Cannon of The Cannon Foundation; Lynn Safrit of Castle and Cook at the N.C. Research Campus; Jeff Bordner of WindShear; Marcus Smith of Charlotte Motor Speedway and N.C. Sen. Fletcher Hartsell. An alumni reception at Charlotte Motor Speedway concluded the day. Charlotte 49ers head football coach Brad Lambert and director of the motorsports engineering program, Mesbah Uddin, also attended the event.
PORTAL Rising On CRI Campus One of UNC Charlotte’s latest construction projects is visible from its high-profile location at the Tryon Street entrance of the Charlotte Research Institute portion of campus. Work is proceeding on the PORTAL building, a $37 million facility created to cultivate closer partnerships between the University and private industry. The four-story, 95,000-square-foot building will house Ventureprise Inc., UNC Charlotte’s business incubator, along with the University’s Technology Transfer Office. It will be built using a variety of non-state resources. Construction should be complete by July 2013. PORTAL is an acronym for “Partnership Outreach and Research to Accelerate Learning.” “The PORTAL building reflects the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's commitment to University-industry partnerships with particular emphasis on research, business growth and job creation,” said Robert Wilhelm, vice chancellor for research and economic development at UNC Charlotte. Q412
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