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Dean Mili Announces Resignation

Leaving CCI to Become Provost at Grand Valley State University
   February 15, 2022

In a message to UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) faculty and staff, Dean Fatma Mili announced her departure at the end of this semester to become the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Mili has been CCI’s dean for nearly five years, a period marked by exceptional growth and success...

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CCI Q&A with Michael Ridenhour

   February 11, 2022

Michael Ridenhour, a Ph.D. candidate at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), came to CCI from Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) where, like so many others, he honed his acadmic skills and his focus. Also and athlete and musician, Ridenhour credits his varied interests for helping him maintian a healthy...

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CCI Professor Featured in AAAS Report

Nadia Najjar's Response to Remote Teaching and Learning Gets Attention
   February 7, 2022

The innovative work of UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) Assistant Teaching Professor Nadia Najjar was featured in a January report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Published as part of a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Promising Practices examines how educators have adapted to remote teaching during the...

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CCI Q&A with Dr. Rick White

   January 19, 2022

Dr. Rick White, assistant Bioinformatics professor at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), specializes in synthetic biology. He says the goal of his work is to, "make COVID-19 the last pandemic and stop the next major health crisis of multidrug-resistant bacteria." White sat down with...

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CCI Q&A with Maya Kapoor

   November 19, 2021

Maya Kapoor, a Ph.D. candidate at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), is a first-generation college student with an undergraduate degree in History from UNC Chapel Hill. Homeschooled through high school, the Kings Mountain native is currently employed as a software engineer at Parsons while working her way to a...

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CCI, State's Fastest-Growing and Most Diverse Computer Science Program

   November 4, 2021

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Emeritus Jim Woodward foresaw a world where computing would touch every aspect of our lives. In 2000, he established the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), separate from Engineering, where the program originated.

“I am consistently inspired by the genesis of UNC Charlotte and CCI,” said CCI Dean Fatma Mili, who joined the college in August 2017 and was...

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CCI Junior Wins Kathy Harris Award

Ana Pathak Honored to be First-Ever Recipient
   July 28, 2021

Ana Pathak, a junior Computer Science major from Cornelius, N.C., has been named the inaugural recipient of an award established to honor the memory and legacy of Kathy Harris. 

The Kathy Harris Service and Leadership Award honors and encourages the next generation of female technology leaders who exhibit the traits Kathy held...

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CCI and Lowe's Expand Partnership

Gift will Advance Critical Initiatives for North Carolina's Largest Computing College
   April 6, 2021

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Flexing Her Mussels

Professor’s Research Published in Molecular Ecology
   March 29, 2021

UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) Bioinformatics and Genomics professor Dr. Rebekah Rogers has been fascinated by freshwater mussels since childhood. Raised in Florence-Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which sits along the Tennessee River and is home to one of North America’s most diverse populations of mussels, Rogers even did her high school science project on the now-...

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Two-Percenters

CCI Lands Five on List of World's Top Scientists
   January 26, 2021

In a recent Stanford University study, five faculty researchers from UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) were ranked among the top two-percent of scientists in the world. 

The report, first published in the prestigious PLOS Biology Journal, evaluated and ranked approximately seven million scientists across more than 20 disciplines from 1965-2019. Based...

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