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Community Conversation discusses employment, economic trends with industry experts

UNC Charlotte re-launched its successful “Community Conversations: Changing Times…Changing Minds” speaker series this spring with a panel discussion focused on jobs and the economic recovery, hosted by the Belk College of Business at the Levine Museum of the New South.

The topic of the March 17 conversation was “Charlotte's Changing Workforce: Trends and Outlooks for Jobs and...

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Finance Ph.D. student earns award for scholarship

Finance Ph.D. student earns award for scholarship

Lindsay Baran,a student in the Finance Ph.D. program in the Belk College of Business, has beenrecognized as a Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar.

Philanthropic Educational Organizationis a national organizationdedicated to the advancement and education of women. Theorganization conducts a Scholars Award competition for female doctoral students who are at the dissertation...

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Reminder: UNC Charlotte phasing out "@email.uncc.edu" email addresses

Last year, the default email domain for UNC Charlotte faculty and staffwas changed from @email.uncc.edu to @uncc.edu.

On July 1, 2008, the @email.uncc.edu domain will be deactivated, and any email sent to an @email.uncc.edu address will be returned to the sender as undeliverable.

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Connaughton: N.C. economy shows strong growth in 2006; expansion expected through 2007

UNC Charlotte economist presents state economic forecast

The North Carolina economy is expected to grow by 3.5 percent during 2006, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in his TIAA-CREF/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast for North Carolina. The growth forecast for 2006 is slightly lower than the growth rate of 4.1 percent experienced during 2005 but considerably higher than the 1.5 percent rate projected in Connaughton’s September...

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Belk College announces faculty research awards

The Belk College of Business has awarded the following faculty research grants:

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Belk College junior awarded prestigious international scholarship

Belk College junior awarded prestigious international scholarship

Belk College junior Lilia Shaforostov, along with three other UNC Charlotte undergraduate students, has received a prestigious Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad during the 2010-11 academic year.

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Belk College announces faculty research awards

The Belk College of Business has awarded the following faculty research grants:

Hwan Lin (Economics) received the BarclaysAmerican Summer Research Grant.

Ellen Sewell, Ted Amato and Carol Swartz (Economics) received theJohnson Awards for Teaching Research and Development.

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UNC Charlotte tax team places in national top ten

A team of UNC Charlotte accounting students has placed in the top ten in a national tax competition.

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Center for Real Estate on target to reach $4 million goal

The Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte is moving closer to reaching its $4 million fundraising campaign goal.

Campaign co-chairs Fred Klein, senior managing partner at Childress Klein Properties, and Todd Mansfield, chairman and CEO of Crosland LLC, recently announced $325,000 in new commitments.

The law firms of K...

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Former Federal Reserve Executive keynote speaker at Belk College ethics conference

Former Federal Reserve Executive keynote speaker at Belk College ethics conference

Many of the poor business decisions that led to the nation’s current economic crisis were not necessarily due to a complete lapse in business ethics, but human nature, a former Federal Reserve Bank executive said Tuesday at a conference at UNC Charlotte.

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