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Syeda Fatema Mazumder. Photo by Kat Lawrence.

Syeda Fatema Mazumder: Paving New Paths in Computer Science Education

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 […]

CCI's Bill Chu and UNC Charlotte Provost Jennifer Troyer

Quarter-Century Milestone: UNC Charlotte’s Cybersecurity Symposium Celebrates 25th Year

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 […]

CCI Partners With National CSforALL Computer Science Education Initiative

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 […]

Dr. Bill Chu

Bill Chu and 25 Years Of UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Excellence

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 […]

Microbialite structures like this sample from New York could help reveal new info about Earth's earliest life.

New CCI bioinformatics research helps explain key role of protists in modern analogs to ancient microbial ecosystems

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 […]

Sampling soil from ecosystems like Green Lakes State Park in NY could help scientists understand climate change.

CCI Bioinformatics research assists in global effort to stress importance of viruses in soil

Dr. Richard Allen White III — Assistant professor of bioinformatics in UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics and the North Carolina Research Campus — along with a global group of scholars argue the scientific community’s understanding of the causes and impacts of global climate change could be deepened by paying more attention to how […]

UNC Charlotte researchers awarded NIH grant to develop mobile health technology to reduce farmworker health disparities

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded UNC Charlotte researchers an R01 grant to develop point-of-care mobile health technology to reduce heat and pesticide-induced farmworker health disparities.  Professors Jun Wang and Xiuxia Du from the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics in the College of Computing and Informatics […]

Shirish Yasa

Shirish Yasa: Using Advanced Computing to Take the Fight to Cancer

When Shirish Yasa was a 10 year-old kid attending educational summer camps at UNC Charlotte, he walked through the beautiful campus each day dreaming about what it’d be like to be a student at his hometown university. “I was very familiar with the campus and I really liked walking around when I was doing those […]

UNC Charlotte Professor Manuel Pérez Quiñones elected to Computing Research Association Board of Directors

Manuel Pérez Quiñones, Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, one of the nation’s most influential computing research and policy nonprofit organizations. An advocate for broadening participation in computing, Pérez Quiñones is excited […]

Study lead author Madeline Bellanger, UNC Charlotte Ph.D. student in bioinformatics and computational biology

NASA-funded CCI research quantifies weight of all viruses in the Great Salt Lake with novel technique

The Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah isn’t just one of the most well-known ecological features in America and one of the largest lakes on the planet. Like all lakes, it is also teeming with viruses that are not harmful to humans and only infect microbes, and instead play pivotal roles in maintaining […]