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Recovery underway but job growth will be slow, Connaughton reports

Recovery Underway but Job Growth will be Slow, Connaughton Reports Job Growth Began in January after Two Years of Decline CHARLOTTE – March 16, 2010 — The North Carolina economy is forecast to increase by 3.5 percent in 2010, UNC...

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Center for Real Estate board chair earns key promotion at Bank of America

Ron Curtis, the chair of the advisory boardfor the Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte, has been promoted to president of commercial real estate banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mr. Curtis most recently served as the commercial real estate...

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Belk College senior selected as commencement speaker

Wei Tsay, an International Business major with a minor in Economics, from Lexington, NC, was selected to speak at UNC Charlotte's recent Commencement ceremony. He is pictured here with Chancellor Phil Dubois. While a student in the Belk College of...

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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...

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N.C.'s top small businesses include two with Belk College ties

Business Leader magazine recently released its list of the top North Carolina small businesses. Two companies have ties to the Belk College of Business: - Hinrichs Flanagan Financial, an insurance, investment and financial services firm led by Business...

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Management student Darius Law named A-10 Student-Athlete of the Year

Darius Law, a junior management major in the Belk College of Business, has beennamed the Atlantic 10 Conference's Indoor Men's Student-Athlete of the Year.Darius has won the award three times, as he was named to the same honor last season for the indoor...

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Fulbright Fellow selects Belk College for graduate study

A student in the Belk College’s Master of Science in Economics program is one of the first Foreign Fulbright Fellows to enroll at UNC Charlotte. Dirk Feldrappe from Obertrebra, Germany chose UNC Charlotte because “the Belk College of...

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Shao named dean at College of Charleston

(Press release courtesy of College of Charleston) Alan T. Shao has been named the new dean of the School of Business and Economics at the College of Charleston. Shao comes to the College after serving as the Associate Dean for Global and Professional...

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Belk College PhD students' papers presented at international conference

Muhammad Zaffar and Haya Ajjan, both students in the Ph.D. in IT program in the Belk College of Business,had co-authoredpapers presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in Paris last December. CIS is the premier,...

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