CAS NEWS ARCHIVE
2023
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- January
UNCW Department of Theatre Receives NC Theatre Conference Award
Nine Seahawks Awarded the State Department’s Gilman International Scholarship
UNCW's Ecotone Magazine to Receive $10,000 NEA Grant
UNCW Graduate Student Receives WRRI Fellowship to Support Study of Ghost Forests
Dr. Nicholas Hudson to Lead Roman Pottery Studies at Greece’s Athenian Agora
UNCW Researchers Awarded National Estuarine Research Grant for Coastal Ecosystem Study
2022
- December
- November
Dr. Sarah Gaby Receives Grant to Study the Civil Rights Movement and Legacies of Racial Violence
UNCW Mourns the Passing of Faculty Member Philip Gerard
Psychology Professor Kate Nooner Receives NIH Grant to Study Binge Drinking in Teens
UNCW Students Sweep Poster Awards at NC Coastal Conference
Creative Writing Professor David Gessner Imagines the Future of Climate Change in New Column
- October
- September
Ecotone Literary Magazine’s Latest Issue Publishes Eclectic Mix
Dr. Michaela Howells Appointed to TriCEM Advisory Board
UNCW Recognizes Faculty for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
Geoscience Graduate Student Helena Kwarteng Awarded Research Grant by NC Fossil Club
Two Seahawks Awarded the State Department’s Gilman International Scholarship
UNCW Interdepartmental Research Team Receives Nearly $1 Million Federal Sponge Research Grant
Impact Like No Other: UNCW Celebrates Its Research Leaders
UNCW Student Cate Arnold Receives Rachel Carson Campus Fellowship
Dr. Kimberly Cook Receives American Society of Criminology Lifetime Achievement Award
UNCW Designated a “Tree Campus Higher Education University” by the Arbor Day Foundation
- August
FAA Selects UNCW for Drone Training Initiative
UNCW Professor Narcisa Pricope Receives Another NCDOT Research Contract
UNCW, D.C. Virgo Collaboration Brings Sea Turtle Lesson to Life
UNCW’s Dasgupta, Robles, Stachowiak and Tucker on WILMA’s “Women to Watch” List
UNCW Center for Marine Science Awarded Two NC Biotech Grants to Advance Marine Biotech Research
- July
UNCW’s theatre department to present Shakespeare and Autism performances of ‘The Tempest’
UNCW provides kids and adults with autism with a unique opportunity
Dr. Shannon Klotsko and Team of Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Demise of Arctic Ice Sheet
UNCW Geologist Digs Into Earth’s Oldest Rocks
UNCW Graduate Student Allie Best Receives Prestigious Fellowship to Pursue Coastal Bird Habitat Research - June
Dr. Douglas Engelman Elected Vice President of Wilmington NAMI Chapter
Dr. Candice Robinson Awarded Pardee RAND Faculty Leaders Program Fellowship
UNCW Graduate Student Jared Wood Awarded an Internship at Merck and Co. Inc.
UNCW Professor Dr. Ralph Mead Receives DEQ Applied Research Fellowship to Advance PFAS Science
UNC System Announces Presidential Scholars for 2022-23 Academic Year
- May
- April
Dr. Mark Imperial Receives APPAM/Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Award
UNCW to Launch Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Dr. Romeo Abraham Named American Society of Public Administration 2022 Founders’ Fellow
Drs. Pabst and McLellan Entrust Marine Mammal Stranding Program to a New Generation
Venkat Dhulipala Awarded NEH Fellowship to Advance International Book Project
Drs. Butler and Rhodes Selected as 2022-23 CAS Faculty Fellows
Dr. Jennifer Horan Elected Vice President of the Southwestern Social Science Association
UNCW’s Lookout Books Receives Literary Arts Emergency Funds
UNCW Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- March
UNCW a Partner in $662,905 NSF Grant Studying Sea Squirts
Dr. Michaela Howells Wins YWCA Education Award
UNCW Communication Studies Students Take First Place at BEA Festival of the Arts
UNCW’s Brian Arbogast Recognized by UNC Board of Governors for Excellence in Teaching
UNCW Assistant Professor Abigail Upshaw Awarded Pedretti Fellowship
Eye Size of Deep-Sea Shrimp Reveal Secrets of the Deep
Dr. Heather Koopman Named American Council on Education Fellow
- February
- January
2021
- December
- November
UNCW Mourns the Loss of Amy Kirschke, Professor Emerita in Art and Art History
Research Recognition: Million Dollar Club Inductees, Others Honored for Exemplary Efforts
UNCW’s Sridhar Varadarajan and Arthur Frampton Finding New Ways to Beat Breast Cancer
UNCW Alumnus, New York Times Bestselling Author Jason Mott Wins National Book Award
UNCW Adds New Applied Coastal and Ocean Sciences Ph.D. Program
UNCW Researcher Finds Earliest Evidence of Mercury Poisoning in Prehistoric Bones
- October
20th Annual Sherman Lecture to Explore Racial, Class Politics of Antebellum South
A New Chapter for Associate Professor Gabriel Lugo and UNCW’s Randall Library
Yoko Kano Receives American Association of Teachers of Japanese Teacher Award
Town of St. James Partners with UNCW for Endowment
Alum Author Jason Mott Picks Up Monumental Literary Honor
UNCW Alum Joe Oliver, Coral Vita Teammates Win Prestigious Earthshot Prize
- September
UNCW Faculty Honored for Teaching, Scholarship and Service
UNCW’s Paul Townend to Serve as Co-Grand Marshal of the “Halfway to Saint Patrick’s Parade”
UNCW Mourns the Passing of Joel J. Mintzes, Retired Professor of Biology
Associate Professor Carlos Kase Selected as 2021-22 Canyon Cinema Fellow
Deepak Rauniyar Selected for the 2021 Asia Pacific Screen Awards International Nominations Council
UNCW Office of Distance Education and eLearning Wins Silver Telly Award
- August
UNCW MPA Programs Receive NASPAA Accreditation
Michelle Scatton-Tessier Named Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for 2021-22
Ready for Its Close Up: University Film Center Open for Fall 2021
UNCW’s Pricope, Shaw on WILMA’s “Women to Watch” List
Professor Eman Ghoneim Awarded NSF Grant to Unearth Ancient Egyptian Settlements
Seahawks Rising: UNCW Alumni, Employees Among 40 Under 40 Award Winners
- July
- June
Richard Ogle, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Named Provost at CSU Stanislaus
NDCRC Launches Updated Interactive Map of Treatment Courts
Big Things Come in Very Small Packages: A New Way of Looking at the Ocean
UNCW MFA Student’s Documentary Pitch Wins Competition at RiverRun International Film Festival
- May
UNCW College of Arts and Sciences to Welcome Visiting Faculty Fall 2021
UNCW Mourns Passing of Former Dean Jo Ann Seiple
A Purposeful Path: UNCW Students Design Walking Tours Stepping Into the Past
UNCW Assistant Professor Jacob Warner Receives $413,836 National Institutes of Health Grant
UNCW History Professor Larry Usilton Retires after 50 Years of Service
UNCW Doctoral Program in Psychology Receives Accreditation from American Psychological Association
- April
People’s History Series Lecture to Explore the Forgotten Jazz Roots of Wilmington
People’s History Series Lecture to Explore Black Wilmington Culture of the Early 20th Century
CAS Mourns the Loss of Faculty Member Jeffrey L. Brudney
Inaugural Class of Integrated Marketing Communications Master’s Students to Graduate
UNCW Researcher Joseph Covi Receives Grant to Continue Studying Zooplankton in Antarctica
UNCW’s Eman Ghoneim Recognized by UNC Board of Governors for Excellence in Teaching
Emilee Higdon ’18 Named North Carolina Beginning Teacher of the Year
UNCW Celebrates Million Dollar Club Inductees and Cahill Award Winners
- March
Sherman Lecture Examines Sports, Protests and Global Politics
Andrew Castagno ’21M Receives Prestigious Fulbright Grant
UNCW Well-Represented on Annual YWCA Women of Achievement Nominees List
UNCW Students to Broaden Their Horizons Through Gilman Scholarships
UNCW Associate Professor Rachael Urbanek Selected as Wildlife Society Fellow
- February
UNCW Part of $5 Million Contract with National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
UNCW Alumni Association Recognizes Distinguished Alumni, Supporter
Restorative Justice Collaborative at UNCW to Address Generational Traumas
UNCW Marine Mammal Stranding Team Played Role in Identifying Previously Undiscovered Whale Species
- January
2020
- December
- November
Biology and Marine Biology's Fred Scharf Receives $588,293 NOAA Grant
CAS Announces 2020-21 Professional Development Awards
UNCW Mourns the Loss of Fletcher Norris, Charter Member of the Computer Science Department
Professor Kristen DeVall Receives 2020 Alumni Achievement Award from Western Michigan University
- October
Susie Goodrum Receives 2020 Staff Award for Excellence, 19 Others Recognized for Exemplary Service
Writing to Transform: Annual Celebration of Writers Continues Virtually
New Film Studies Building Currently in Production, Set for Spring 2021 Opening
UNCW International Studies Students Travel Virtually to Global Locations
- September
Founded on Solid Ground: UNCW Stays True to Roots with Newest Building
Five Seahawks Awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
Challenging, Inspiring and Sustaining: Faculty Honored with Annual Awards
Professor Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Wins Prestigious National Communication Association Award
Seahawks Return to Dobo Hall Following Two-Year Renovation Project
UNCW and CFCC Receive $196,782 Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program Grant
Work of Professor and Noted Penguin Scholar Emslie Featured in Esteemed Geology Journal
Dana Stachowiak, Director of the Gender Studies and Research Center, Wins Early Career Alumni Award
- August
Sixteen Seahawk Alumni Serve as Peace Corps Volunteers
Wave of Success: First Hire in UNCW’s Coastal Engineering Program Nets Major NSF Grant
UNCW Doctoral Student Marae Lindquist Receives NOAA Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship
Current and Connected: UNCW Launches Executive Master of Public Administration Program
Threatened Coral Species Spawns for the First Time in Captivity in UNCW Lab
UNCW Research Could Help Health Officials Identify Possible Coronavirus Outbreaks
UNCW Researcher Selected to Serve on NC Black Entrepreneurship Council
- July
- June
- May
- April
UNCW’s Walker, Boersma Recognized for Putting “Service Above Self”
Juan Zuluaga ’20 Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
UNCW Appoints Dr. James J. Winebrake as New Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
UNC Board of Governors Names Recipients of the 2020 Awards for Excellence in Teaching
UNCW Ranked Among the Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News & World Report
UNCW Associate Professor of Geography Narcisa Pricope Shares in $440,000 Coastal Resiliency Grant
UNCW Hawk’s Harvest Student Food Pantry Continues Efforts During COVID-19 Pandemic
UNCW’s Julian Murray-Brown ’21 Spends a Semester at Sea
UNCW Alumna to Teach English in Ecuador Through Fulbright Program
- March
- February
UNCW Hosts Fifth Grade Arts Clinic for the Fourth Year
Opera Symposium Explores Gender, Race and Power
Ecotone Named Finalist for the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction
UNCW Celebrates Scholarship at Annual Research Reception
Yoko Kano Awarded Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese Teacher of the Year Award
- January
2019
- December
- November
- October
Lookout Books Author Clare Beams Wins Bard Fiction Prize
UNCW Doctoral Student Receives Prestigious Fellowship
UNCW Sherman Lecture to Discuss Conservatism and Social War in Modern Brazil
UNCW’S New Graduate Film Programs Now Accepting Applications
UNCW Creative Writing Professor Philip Gerard Wins Highest Civilian Honor in North Carolina
UNCW Doctoral Clinic Offers Affordable Mental Health Services to the Community
Professor Stephen Meinhold Named to College Board National Academic Assembly
UNCW Arts and Humanities Take Center Stage at UNCW Board of Visitors Meeting
UNCW Department of Creative Writing to Present 20th Annual Writers’ Week
- September
UNCW Among Top 100 Public National Universities in Latest U.S. News & World Report Rankings
UNCW’s Fall Enrollment Sets University Record with Nearly 17,500 Students
The Tradition of Excellence: UNCW Honors Exemplary Efforts with Annual Faculty Awards
UNCW Faculty Members Launch Interdisciplinary Series on Coastal Community Resiliency
UNCW Arts and Humanities Take Center Stage at UNCW Board of Visitors Meeting
- August
Anna Lena Phillips Bell Named 2019-21 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Eastern North Carolina (more...)
UNCW Cyber Defense Team Qualifies for Nationals in 2019 Wicked6 Cyber Games (more...)
UNCW Senior Julianna Tresca Named Rachel Carson Campus Fellow (more...)
UNCW Featured on The Princeton Review’s List of Best Southeastern Schools (more...)
UNCW Students Awarded $110,000 by U.S. Coastal Research Program (more...)
UNCW Alumna Maegan McUmber Begins Peace Corps Service in Zambia (more...)
UNCW Assistant Professor Michael Tift Lead Investigator in $950K National Science Foundation Grant Project (more...)
UNCW Names Dana Stachowiak Director of the Women’s Studies and Resource Center (more...)
UNCW Department of Theatre Unveils Exciting 2019-20 Season (more...)
- July
Biology Professor Brian Arbogast Named Chair of the American Society of Mammalogists Conservation Committee (more...)
UNCW Provost Names Five to New Leadership Roles, Announces Plans to Transition to Faculty (more...)
UNCW Again Selected for Inclusion in Highly Respected College Guidebook (more...)
UNCW Welcomes New Members to Board of Trustees (more...)
UNCW Ranked 32nd Best Public College Value by Kiplinger’s (more...)
UNCW’s Posey Joins State Marine Fisheries Commission (more...)
UNCW Alumna Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for Pioneering Research (more...)
- June
UNCW Appoints Christopher Finelli Graduate School Dean (more...)
UNCW Researcher Ann Stapleton Appointed to Serve a Rotation at the National Science Foundation (more...)
UNCW Polar Physicist Till Wagner Leads Arctic Expedition to Study Sea Ice Melt (more...)
UNCW Master's Student Kyle Woodward Wins NASA Graduate Research Fellowship (more...)
UNCW STEAM Team Brings Inspiration and Opportunity to High School Students (more...)
Aswani Volety, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Named Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Elon University (more...)
- May
Three UNCW Alumni Win Daytime Emmy (more...)
UNCW Researchers Will Use Virtual Reality Technology to Encourage Students to Consider STEM Careers (more...)
UNCW Staff Receive Recognition for Exceptional Service, Outstanding Contributions (more...)
Research by UNCW Chemistry Professor Jeremy Morgan Could Aid in Creating New Medicines (more...)
- April
UNCW Associate Professor Narcisa Pricope Receives Fulbright Research and Teaching Award (more...)
UNCW's Biennial Printfest To Be Held April 13 (more...)
UNCW Ranked 14th in Nation for Best Online Master's in Liberal Arts (more...)
UNCW Students Participate in Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium (more...)
New Sea Squirt Named after UNCW Professor and Lab (more...)
UNCW Mourns the Loss of Creative Writing Professor Phil Furia (more...)
UNCW Professor of International Studies Wins UNCW Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching (more...)
UNCW Students Receive Support from New Hanover County Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Association (more...)
CAS Students Receive Undergraduate Creative-Activity and Scholarship Awards to Support Applied Learning (more...)
UNCW Dean Aswani Volety Appointed Director of the North and South American Chapter of The World Oyster Society (more...)
Three UNCW Students Awarded Funds to Travel Abroad for Holocaust Research more...)
UNCW Research Professor Cited as Author of Most NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research-Supported Journal Articles (more...)
- March
UNCW Professors Receive $446,000 National Institutes of Health Grant for Opioid Research (more...)
UNCW Ranked Among Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News & World Report (more...)
UNCW Ranked 2nd Among Top Master's in History Programs by TheBestSchools.org (more...)
UNCW Associate Professor Narcisa Pricope to Receive Distinguished Emerging African Scholar Award from American Association of Geographers (more...)
UNCW to Host North Carolina Academy of Science Meeting March 22-23 (more...)
UNCW Faculty and Alumnus Receive 2019 Wilmington Theater Awards (more...)
UNCW Film Studies Department to Host Ninth Annual Visions Film Festival & Conference (more...)
UNCW's Eighth Annual "Taking the Pulse on Poverty" Symposium to Focus on Hurrican Florence (more...)
SeaHawk-1 CubeSat Captures First Ocean Color Image (more...)
UNCW Senior to Cross the Pond for Fulbright Funded Graduate Studies (more...)
- February
UNCW Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff Nominated for Wilmington Theater Awards (more...)
UNCW Ornithologist Raymond Danner Receives $234,479 Grant to Study Wintering Habits of Coastal Sparrows (more...)
Symposium Explores Opera, Ballet and Civil Rights Activism (more...)
UNCW Faculty, Staff Recognized for Achievement in Research Funding (more...)
UNCW Film Studies Graduate's Work Nominated for an Oscar (more...)
UNCW Department of Music Professor Daniel Johnson Receives Fulbright Research and Teaching Award (more...)
UNCW's Ecotone Magazine Receives $10,000 NEA Grant (more...)
- January
2018
- December
Dec. 3! UNCW Professor Counts Down Launch of Groundbreaking Nanosatellite (more...)UNCW's Narcisa Pricope, UNC Charlotte Professor Collaborate to Use Tandem Drones to Map Coastal Changes (more...)UNCW Student Filmmaker Nominated for Prestigious Documentary Award (more...)CAS Faculty Among 2019 Cahill Award Winners (more...)
- November
UNCW Receives Federal Recognition as a National Center of Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (more...)
UNCW Professor Emeritus Melton McLaurin Awarded Order of the Longleaf Pine (more...)
UNCW Assistant Professor Darin Penneys Shares in a $1.3M NSF Grant (more...)
UNCW Communication Studies Professor Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Recognized for Best Publications of 2018 (more...)
Honor Roll: Excellence Rewarded at Annual Faculty Awards (more...)
- October
UNCW Mourns the Loss of Former Feast Down East Executive Director Jane Steigerwald (more...)
Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, Dean's Series in the Humanities Oct. 17 and Oct. 18 (more...)
Arts Unite for Hurricane Relief (more...)
Writing the Book: Annual Writers' Week Celebrates Guest Authors of Ecotone Essay Collection (more...)
"Get Out" to See UNCW Theatre Season Opener (more...)
- September
- August
- July
- June
UNCW Assistant Professor Till Wagner to Lead Research on Icebergs and Climate (more...)
UNCW Psychology Professor Mark Galizio Elected Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (more...)
UNCW Communication Studies Professor Bill Bolduc, Students Win Telly Award (more...)
BestColleges.com Ranks UNCW MALS Program 7th Among Nation's Top Programs (more...)
Two Summer Programs Bring Opportunities to Local, Underserved Populations (more...)
UNCW Professor Lawrence Cahoon Receives Green Tie Award (more...)
UNCW Professor Paul Castagno Receives Oslo International Acting Festival 2018 Pedagogical Award (more...)
ABA Degree Program Guide Ranks UNCW ABA Ph.D. Program 2nd in Nation (more...)
- May
Ecotone Named Finalist for CLMP Firecracker Award (more...)
UNCW Dean Aswani Volety Selected for Millennium Leadership Initiative Institute (more...)
UNCW Professors Usilton, Conser and Fonvielle Awarded Governor’s Highest Honor (more...)
Retired UNCW Professor Earl Sheridan Awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (more...)
- April
- March
UNCW Data Science Team Among Eight Teams to Present at SAS Global Forum (more...)
Jeffrey Brudney to Give Gary C. Cornia Lecture at Brigham Young University (more...)
UNCW's Michaela Howells Receives Distinguished Alumni Award (more...)
Ecotone and Lookout Books to Receive NEA Grant (more...)
Monteleone, Scott-Pollock Win YWCA Women of Achievement Awards (more...)
Ashlee Balena Awarded 2017 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Award (more...)
UNCW Among Select U.S. Universities Approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education for Dual Degree Program (more...)
UNCW Announces New Master's Program in Film Studies (more...)
CAS Faculty Inducted into Order of Isaac Bear (more...)
UNCW Environmental Science Students Receive Support from NHC Extension Master Gardner Volunteer Association (more..)
- February
UNCW Mourns the Passing of Retired Professor Thomas Lupton (more...)
- January
UNCW Names Scatton-Tessier and Boersma Associate Deans in the College of Arts and Sciences (more...)
2017
- December
- November
- October
UNCW Data Science Program Hosts Mixer for Students and Business Leaders (more...)
- September
UNCW Professor Awarded $1.5 Million NSF Grant to Research the Future of Coastal Communities (more...)
Monteleone Recognized as a Governor's Conservation Hero (more...)
UNCW Main Stage Set for a Stellar 2017-18 Season (more...)
UNCW's William McLellan Nominated for 2018 Indianapolis Prize (more...)
CAS Online Master of History Program Earns National Accolades (more...)
CAS Faculty Recognized for Excellence at Fall Meeting (more...)
- August
CAS Launches Three New Degree Programs (more...)
UNCW Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hosts First NSF REU Summer Program (more...)
UNCW Alumnae Earn Awards from North Carolina Literary Review Poetry Competition (more...)
UNCW’s Kenneth Shefsiek Receives the 2017 Annual Hendricks Award (more...)
UNCW's Joseph Pawlik Receives the Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Professorship in Marine Sciences (more...)
- July
Associate Professor Eman Ghoneim Receives Egyptian Presidential Invitation to “Egyptian Women Can" Conference (more...)
UNCW Associate Professor Ann Stapleton Awarded $490,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture Grant (more...)
UNCW Receives $2.5 Million for Continuation of One-of-a-Kind Nanosatellite (more...)
- June
- May