Student Researchers
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Student Research & Scholarship
"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
2010: John Cameron Williams
While working for clinical research organization Inclinix as a graduate student, John Cameron Williams ’10 developed a finance model that allows the company’s project managers to compare projects side by side.
2009: Sara McClelland
UNCW graduate student Sara McClelland’s presentation on the vascular systems of whales and dolphins won her “best oral presentation by a non-doctoral student” at the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals held in Quebec City on Oct. 16, 2009.
2008: 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.
2008: 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.
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researchers
2009: 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.
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