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Aidan Browne is an assistant professor in the Engineering Technology Department of the William States Lee College of Engineering. He worked in industry for 12 years as a systems engineer and currently teaches Electrical Engineering Technology and Applied Energy & Electromechanical Systems.

Dante Bryant, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and College of Health and Human Services, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte.

Jurgen Buchenau is professor of History at Latin American Studies. The author and editor of nine books and 35 articles and book chapters, he is the recipient of two major fellowships and co- principal investigator on four federal grants.

Malcolm B. Butler is a professor in the Cato College of Education, with an affiliated faculty appointment in Africana Studies. He earned a Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Florida.

Erik Jon Byker is an associate professor in the Cato College of Education's Department of Reading and Elementary Education. He completed a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy from Michigan State University and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Virginia.

North Carolina native Will Campbell is director of Jazz Studies and professor of Saxophone.

Amy Canevello, associate professor of psychology, has a research focus on goals and motivation in interpersonal relationships and their consequences for close relationship processes. Specifically, she uses longitudinal methods to examine how people’s social goals affect their own relationship beliefs, emotions and behaviors.

Yang Cao completed a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. His research examines social change in contemporary China. He has published in leading sociology journals as well as journals in economics and management. 

Tara Cavalline is a professor in the William States Lee College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte.  Her research interests include concrete and cementitious materials, quality assurance, use of recycled and byproduct materials in concrete, and asset management.  She has been at UNC Charlotte since 2006, and prior to that worked as a consulting engineer in Charlotte. 

Kausik Chakrabarti is an assistant professor of Biological Sciences. His expertise is in the interdisciplinary areas of Genomics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression in human pathogens, such as parasites and viruses.