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Hawk's Eye View: Aldo Plata ’03

March 16, 2023 - The sounds of spring have returned to Wilmington. The bat's ping, the ball's pop into the glove and the crowd's roar are back.

As fans file into Brooks Field and await the first pitch, they may spend those few minutes catching up with friends, watching the pitchers warm up or plotting what inning to visit the concession stand.

For one former Seahawk, however, his pregame is cycling through scenarios and questions. What if an injury occurs? Is all the emergency equipment where it needs to be? What's my first move if I see a player get injured? More...

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Full Scale Flexibility

March 2023 - The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) is an R2 doctoral university known for its focus on research. In 2018, UNCW began construction on Veterans Hall, a new 145,000-square-foot facility that houses the College of Health and Human Services, as well as the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Office of Military Affairs. The building opened in August 2020.

This building is the first on UNCW’s campus to feature classrooms designed specifically for active learning. According to Robb Mann, CTS-I, manager of integrated educational technologies, the institution’s foray into active learning began before the pandemic hit. “[The university] saw this as a coming trend, and in talking to students, discerned that there was an interest in it,” he noted. More...

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New Hanover hospital team saved college student’s life. Now she wants to join them.

January 31, 2023 - A couple of months into her freshman year, Kalyn Groncki's near-fatal case of COVID-19 also gave her what she now calls a new sense of purpose. She spent 23 days in the hospital. Among her care team were respiratory therapists Veronica Pittman and Cody Powell. Pittman and Powell not only helped her heal, they changed her life. After reading an article in UNCW Magazine that promoted the university’s new respiratory therapy program at the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences, Groncki immediately ripped out the page and taped it to the wall. “This is my goal,” she told herself. “This is what I want to do.” Read more about Groncki's story in this Novant Health NHRMC article.