We are a community of learners, embracing scholarship and the necessary interplay between teaching and research. Students are afforded opportunities to learn through collaborative scholarship acvitiy with a world-class faculty.

-- A UNCW Core Value

Pictured at Left: Matt Hirsch

 

 

 

 

 

"UNC Wilmington strives to create a powerful learning experience for our students and nowhere else is ths effort more more evident than through the research, scholarship and artistic achievment of our students. From marine biology to spanish linguistics. our students push the boundaries of discovery." Paul Hosier, Phd, Provost & Vice Chancelor, Ac. Affairs

 

Outstanding Graduate Student Researchers:

Matt Hirsch

Marine science graduate student Matt Hirsch (pictured above) was recently named this year’s Ahuja Water Quality Fellow, an award created by Dr. Sut Ahuja two years ago to fund a UNCW student working on some aspect of water quality research. Story...

Christy Visaggi

Marine Biology doctoral student Christy Visaggi was published in the July 4, 2008 issue of Science Magazine, as co-author of “Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates.” Visaggi worked with 34 other paleobiologists across the country on the article, which concludes that the diversity of marine invertebrates has increased over time, but not as much as some early scientists believed. Story...

 

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researchers:

Josh Nielsen

For Josh Nielsen, researching and writing about historical issues is important, but how historians publicly present information is of equal, if not greater, value. In the summer of 2008, Nielsen traveled to the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii to further his research on the preservation of public history. Story...

Carly Randall

Under the guidance of Dr. Alina Szmant, marine biology major Carly Randall '07, conducted an experiment to test whether or not elevated temperatures have an effect on the survivorship and settlement of larvae of the Caribbean coral, Favia fragum. Outcomes from her research suggest that the settlement stage of the life cycle is especially sensitive to global warming. Randall entered UNC Wilmington's graduate marine biology program in fall 2007 to continue her research on the effects of high temperatures on coral larvae.

 

 

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