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Fostering Collaborations

Research Development

Learn more about how R&I promotes, facilitates, and convenes research interest groups to catalyze cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Building a Team

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Team Science

Scholars@UNCW is the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s discovery system featuring the scholarship and creative works of UNCW faculty.

Use the search feature or explore interconnected data related to individuals, academic departments, and specific scholarly outputs

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The global nonprofit ORCID - Open Researcher and Contributor ID - is a scholar-led organization that issues a unique, persistent identifier free of charge to researchers.

An ORCID iD helps individual researchers to control their academic record, distinguish them from others with similar names, and provide a persistent record regardless of name, affiliation, or translation changes.

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Google Scholar is a specialized search engine that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, including articles, papers, theses, books, and reports.

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Team science is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to research where diverse experts work together to tackle complex, large-scale problems by leveraging their combined knowledge and skills. Working in teams presents opportunities like access to broader expertise, enhanced innovation, and increased impacts. It can also be challenging to effectively manage resources, people, and ideas.

 TEAM SCIENCE RESOURCES

Ways to Connect

The IRSS is designed to build interdisciplinary capacity in areas of growing research strength by (1) fostering communication and promoting collaborations among UNCW investigators and (2) connecting local knowledge with the national expertise network and creating an intellectual community of peers. The IRSS focuses on a theme, problem, or broad question where UNCW has existing research capacity and a clear opportunity to grow its research contributions and overall success.

AY2026:

  • TBA soon!

AY2025: 

AY2023:

AY2022:

AY2021:

AY2020:

  • Coastal Resiliency
  • The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Health 

This convening mechanism provides an opportunity for UNCW faculty to connect, learn about each other's research, and to foster innovative ideas and potential collaboration.

AY2025: Center for Marine Science Series (UNCW SharePoint - Log in is required to view.)

  • Broader Impacts and Community Outreach
  • AI & Machine Learning in Coastal & Marine Science
  • Sustainable Living Resources, Biotechnology, and Restoration
  • Coastal Water Resources, Risks, and Resiliencey

AY2024:

AY2023:

  • Offshore Wind Energy
  • Food for Thought - Part 1

AY2022:

  • Partnering for Impact: Exploring Community-Based Participatory Research

AY2021:

  • AI+ Application and Research
  • International Trade and Exchange - Part 1
  • COVID 19
  • Imaging
  • AI + Marine + Data Research
  • Digital Humanities
  • Food & Nutrition Security Research
  • HEART – Engage in Aging Research & Training
  • Humanities AI
  • International Trade & Exchange
  • NC Coastal Flooding Collaborative
  • Science and Humanities
  • Sustainable Networks
  • Well-Being & Resilience Collaborative

The goal of this new program is to accelerate the growth, impact, and competitiveness of UNCW research in strategic areas. These Research Hubs will serve as the nexus and support for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to launch or advance multiple research projects.

To support this vision, two Research Hubs were awarded $100,000 a year for three years as milestones are achieved. 

Bridging Gaps in Neurocare: UNCW’s Strategic Blueprint for Brain Health Resilience (BHR) -Dedicated to brain health resilience advancements spanning prevention to pharmacological intervention

Pillar 1: Translational Brain Medicine - Dr. Ying Wang (Chemistry), Lead PI

Pillar 2: Neuroplasticity - Dr. Rachel Kohman (Psychology), Lead PI

Pillar 3: Prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion - Dr. Lindsey Schroeder (Athletic Training), Lead PI

Pillar 4: Substance Use and Data Science - Dr. David MacQueen (Psychology), Lead PI

COLLABORATORS:

  • College of Science and Engineering
  • College of Health and Human Services
  • Military Affairs
  • Industry Partners - NuReam, SportGait/LifeGait, OpiAID

MCARTEC: Maritime Cybersecurity Applied Research, Technology & Education Center - To help secure and strengthen the resilience of the maritime subsector of the transportation systems sector

Lead PI: Dr. Ulku Clark (Congdon School of Supply Chain)

Applied Research - Dr. Hosam Alamleh (Computer Science) and Dr. Bilge Karabacak (Congdon School of Supply Chain)

Technology - Dr. Jeff Cummings (Congdon School of Supply Chain), Dr. Laavanya Rachakonda (Computer Science), and Dr. Kasey Miller (Congdon School of Supply Chain)

Education - Dr. Geoff Stoker (Congdon School of Supply Chain)

COLLABORATORS:

  • College of Science and Engineering
  • Cameron School of Business
  • College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
  • External Partners - North Carolina State Ports Authority, Defense Alliance of North Carolina and United States Coast Guard

RESEARCH HUBS DIVE DEEPMCARTEC PAVES WAY FOR CYBERSECURITY PARTNERSHIPS

Partner Events

Love Data Week Celebrate data in all its forms, promote good research data management strategies, share data success and horror stories, and ask hard questions about the role of data in our lives (February). Love Data Week
Fair Use Week An annual celebration of the fair use and fair dealing doctrines in international copyright law and their support of the public good (February). Fair Use Week
Open Access Week To promote the free and unrestricted sharing of research, scholarship, and knowledge (October). Open Access Week

Centers & Institutes

Centers and Institutes are one important mechanism universities use to encourage and support research, scholarship, innovation, and learning in focal areas at universities. UNCW has four recognized institutional-level centers and institutes.

  • Center for Marine Science
  • Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Swain Center for Executive Education & Economic Development
  • Institutes for Interdisciplinary Identity Sciences
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