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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.

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.

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 […]

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.

On October 2, 2019, Bill Brandon, Jim Douglas, Eric Heberlig and Suzanne Leland honored faculty emeritus Ken Godwin at “Talking Policy in the Queen City and announced a new student Fellowship in Dr. Godwin’s name.

The UNC Charlotte delegation hosted the September (2019) Interim Council of the North Carolina Student Legislature. Nineteen members of our delegation attended. Seven UNCC delegates introduced resolutions, all of them passed. Joshua Wiggins won the Best Resolution Award for his resolution on Tuition for Veterans. Jacob Baum, Jonathan Spruill, and Joshua Wiggins were nominated for […]

Our North Carolina Student Legislature delegation participated in October 2019 debates at Campbell University and November 2019 debates at Lenoir Rhyne College. At the October Interim Council, our delegation passed 4 of the 6 resolutions they introduced. Zachary Saunders won the Best Speaker Award and Sarah Dunning won the Best Resolution Award for her resolution […]