Congrats December 2016 Graduates!

Announcing Spring 2017 CEO Speaker Series featuring Roger Ferguson, Jr

Roger Ferguson, Jr, President and CEO of TIAA, a leading provider of retirement services and a Fortune 100 organization, will be the next speaker in the Belk College of Business CEO Speaker Series.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

11:00am - Noon

Popp Martin Student Union, 3^rd Floor Ballrooms, UNC Charlotte main campus

This event is open to all Belk College students, faculty and staff. This event will be hosted by the Robert A. Niblock Student Center for Professional Development and the Belk College External Relations team. If you have questions or would like to register yourself or your class for the event, the RSVP form is available online.

Academic and Career Coaching Office Holiday Schedule

With the Fall 2016 semester coming to a close, the Belk College Academic and Career Coaching Office would like to wish you a safe and happy holiday!

The office will be open through December 22nd and appointments can be made on starfish.uncc.edu.

As a reminder, the University will be closed December 23rd through January 2nd. Regular office hours (8am-5pm) will resume Tuesday, January 3rd.

UCAE Final Exam Review Sessions

The UCAE will be offering Final Exam Review Sessions for the following courses, which includes a number of Business Progression courses:

Organizational Science Summer Diversity Institute Fellowship Opportunity

Now recruiting for the 2017 Organizational Science Summer Diversity Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 

The mission of the Institute is to diversify the pipeline for graduate education in Organizational Science. The 2017 Org Science Institute will be held May 14-19, 2017. The application deadline for fellows is February 3, 2017.

To be considered for the Institute Fellowship, applicants must:

• Be a rising junior or senior
• Have a competitive GPA
• Have an interest in pursuing a Graduate degree
• Be willing to commit to a week of intensive research training and preparation in Charlotte, NC
• Be interested in organizations, and are thinking about attending graduate school in an Org Science-related field (e.g., Management, I/O Psychology, Sociology, Organizational Communication)
• Be members of an underrepresented student population.

Our Institute Fellows will receive:

• Travel related expenses
• Housing and Food
• Intense GRE preparation
• Hands on research experience with Faculty and Doctoral Students
• One-on-one mentoring with doctoral students and faculty
• Network with National Experts on Graduate Education
• An invaluable jump start on their Graduate Education

For more information please visit our website at: https://ossi.uncc.edu or contact us at orgsciencesummer@uncc.edu.

DSI/CSI Speaker - Wednesday, December 7, 2016

DSI/CSI Speaker - Wednesday, December 7, 2016

1 to 2:30 pm - Student Union Theater

Joshua M. Epstein, Professor of Emergency Medicine at

Johns Hopkins University

Title: AGENT_ZERO AND GENERATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE

ABSTRACT

 Agent_Zero is a formal alternative to the rational actor model that has dominated social science since the 1940’s. This software individual is the first to be endowed with distinct affective, deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in neuroscience, these internal facets interact to produce far-from-rational individual behavior. And when ensembles of these agents interact spatially, they generate a panoply of social dynamics from genocide to financial panic to vaccine refusal. Epstein will discuss the background of Agent_Zero, demonstrate its application to an array of fields, and discuss future research directions including large-scale modeling in the economic, behavioral, and health sciences.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Joshua M. Epstein is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, director of JHU’s Center for Advanced Modeling and co-director of its Systems Institute. He holds joint appointments in applied mathematics, civil engineering, economics, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, international health, and is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. A pioneer in agent-based modeling, Epstein has authored seminal books including Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, with Robert Axtell (MIT Press, 1996);  Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Press, 2006); and recently, Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science (Princeton University Press, 2013). He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, has taught at Princeton and lectured worldwide. In 2008, he received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and in 2010, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Amherst College, his Alma Mater. 

Questions: Contact: jfulton4@uncc.edu