Renaissance Computing Institute

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RENCI at Duke University

RENCI at NC State University

RENCI at UNC Chapel Hill

RENCI at ECU

RENCI at UNC Asheville

RENCI at UNC Charlotte

RENCI at UNC Charlotte unca

Contact
Jeff Michael, Director
704-687-2255

Overview
RENCI at UNC Charlotte, launched in 2007, expands RENCI’s virtual organization into North Carolina’s largest metropolitan area. Administered by UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute and developed as a partnership among the Urban Institute, the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science and the Charlotte Visualization Center, the three campus entities collaborate with RENCI at UNC Charlotte on interdisciplinary research that addresses trends in land use and development in the Charlotte area and the effects of urbanization on natural resources, traffic patterns, urban infrastructure, quality of life and disaster response. RENCI at UNC Charlotte’s goal is to develop models to forecast future urban development, create and disseminate interactive, visual simulations of data on urbanization trends, and deploy visual decision support tools that stakeholders can use to develop and assess sustainable growth and economic development policies.

The new center contributes its research and expertise to RENCI’s statewide mission of solving problems important to North Carolina through collaborations among research institutions, government and businesses. It links via the North Carolina Research and Education Network to RENCI headquarters in Chapel Hill, to centers on the Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State campuses, and to engagement centers at UNC Asheville and East Carolina University in Greenville.

Partners
UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
The Center for Applied Geographic Information Science
The Charlotte Visualization Center

Links
UNC Charlotte
UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
The Center for Applied Geographic Information Science
The Charlotte Visualization Center