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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently was redesignated by the U.S. National Security Agency as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for Cyber Research through 2030, reaffirming the University’s foundational cybersecurity leadership. One of only 93 universities in the U.S. to currently hold this designation, UNC Charlotte was a member of […]

When Stephanie Schuckers was working hard in her math and sciences classes as a young girl, inspired by her engineer father, she couldn’t have predicted that one day she’d be directing a renowned research center that helps governments and business titans solve their trickiest digital security issues. Schuckers, a noted biometrics scholar, is now UNC […]

The 2025 Special Interest Group Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Award for Distinguished Service to the Computer Science Education Community has been awarded to UNC Charlotte’s Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, professor of software and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics. Since its establishment in 1997, this award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) annually […]

Anum Hafiz is set on making an impact. Throughout her time at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics, she’s constantly pushed herself to build her cybersecurity and leadership skills in tandem, hoping to one day make a mark on her field while leaving a legacy as a role model for women interested in technology […]

Avery Newkirk knows how to seize an opportunity. He’s made the most of all of the resources available to him at UNC Charlotte and its College of Computing and Informatics, doing all he can to set himself up for a successful start to his technology career. It’s the first step toward building the kind of […]

Syeda Fatema Mazumder isn’t your average Ph.D. graduate. From moving across the world with her husband Saquib to raising two daughters while completing a rigorous doctoral program in computer science education at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing Informatics, she’s an inspiring example of what can be accomplished with hard work and the courage instilled by […]

UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) hosted the annual Cybersecurity Symposium on Oct. 22-23 on the University’s campus, marking the event’s 25th anniversary. The annual gathering once again provided a forum for students, researchers and industry professionals to interact, sharing best practices and career advice while looking forward into the next quarter-century of […]

Today, UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) joins the announcement with CSforALL to announce 143 commitments from 136 organizations made by our CSEd member community, consisting of schools and school districts; nonprofits; universities and colleges; curriculum and content providers; researchers; corporate partners, and more.  The goal of the eighth annual CSforALL Summit is […]

It’s the year 2000. Dial-up internet reigns supreme. AOL has over 20 million customers. Cell phones don’t have cameras, let alone app stores. Most computers are bulky, desk-bound plastic rectangles. And if your company is forward-thinking enough to have a chief technology officer, chances are that person is still using a pager. Twenty-five years ago […]

UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Dr. Richard Allen White III, faculty in the College of Computing and Informatics and the North Carolina Research Campus, has published new research explaining how microscopic protist organisms and tiny animals called metazoans affect the growth and health of modern microbialites, which are modern versions of ancient ecosystems that […]