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The Charlotte Speech Team recently traveled to Novice Nationals at Berry College in Rome, GA, where the team took THIRD Place! Korey Wilson, Allie Dunn, Shristi Archarya, and Amely Pena Alcantara all placed in the final rounds. Additionally, the Varsity Team qualified three students for the National Tournament in Portland, OR. Dr. Nance Riffe says, […]

Dr. Tiffany Gallicano’s teaching assignment article, titled “From cubicles to cupid: How AI created a work culture connection,” is now available in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s 2026 AI Faculty Use Case Stories publication. ChatGPT was used to generate dating ads to help students decide which workplace culture matches their strengths and workplace preferences. […]

Professor Brittney Nix-Crawford was selected as a finalist for the CHESS Early Career Teaching Award! To be eligible, nominees must be employed as full-time Teaching-Track faculty in CHESS, have taught for at least the three prior semesters, and be teaching in the current semester. Finalists were honored at the CHESS 2026 Faculty and Staff Achievement […]

At the invitation of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte (WACC), Dr. Min Jiang spoke on “US-China AI Race” on April 7, 2026, as part of WACC’s Annual China Town Hall event. Dr. Jiang’s talk focused on the “complex intersection between global politics, foreign policy, and the accelerating competition between China and the U.S.”

Dr. Jason Black was invited to join a research team within the Indigenous Governance Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government to explore Indigenous truth and reconciliation efforts within U.S. sport policy. The team aims to draft position papers for future legislative change regarding Indigenous representation in sports.

Dr. Justin Grandinetti recently published an open-access article in AI & Society titled “Beyond black boxes and the AI sublime: Critically assessing the code behind commonly used machine learning models.” The article aims to “demystify the opacity surrounding one important aspect of AI by assessing the code of commonly used models, and, in doing so, […]

Dr. Camille Endacott and her colleague have published an article titled “Is compassion best accomplished face-to-face? Compassion recipients’ channel use, preferences, and impact in remote and hybrid working contexts” in the International Journal of Business Communication. The article discusses how workers receive compassion in remote vs. hybrid work environments.

Dr. Tiffany Gallicano will give a lightning talk with alumna Casey Nash (BA – COMM), titled “When the boss is wrong: Practicing moral advocacy through AI role-play,” at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Charlotte AI Summit on May 13. She will also serve on a panel with Dr. Cori Faklaris (CCI) and Justin Cary […]

Professor Debbie Baker’s proposal titled “Resigning from the AI Police Force: Embracing Instructional Growth” has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 Charlotte AI Summit: AI for Smarter Learning, which will be held in May. The Teaching and Learning Innovation Team in the Center for Teaching and Learning has described her contribution as “playing a […]

Dr. Erin Basinger and Meg Watford (MA ‘25) published an article titled “History repeating itself: Anti-fat narratives in the Ozempic and Fen-Phen eras,” published in Fat Studies, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.