Fostering Collaborations

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 our local community with the national knowledge network and creating an intellectual community of peers. 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.

• ChatGPT and Generative AI for Education, Local Government, and Business
• Food for Thought: Technology, Community, Health, Access, and Justice
• The Material Culture of Racial Justice and Healthcare Equity
• Mindfulness: Promoting Research-informed Practice and Practice-informed Research
• Digital Soundings
• Coastal Resiliency
• The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Health

Research and Innovation hosts workshops to connect faculty with similar research interests or methodologies across disciplines. Example Research Collider workshops include:

• Offshore Wind Energy
• Partnering for Impact: Exploring Community-Based Participatory Research
• AI+ Application and Research
• International Trade and Exchange
• COVID 19
• Imaging

AY24 Research Colliders:

Food for Thought - Join us to hear from UNCW researchers studying a variety of topics related to food. The first half of the event will be presentations, and the second half will be an opportunity for Q&A and general discussion. Light refreshments will be provided.

Wednesday, November 1 | 3-4 p.m. | Morton Hall 100 (Bryan Auditorium)

Presentations:

• Variety in Food Pantry Client Choices: One-Size Does Not Fit All - Andrew Bryant, Marketing
• University Policies and Practices to Support Campus Food Access for Students - Kit Huelskamp, Health and Applied Human Sciences
• Food in Films - Sue Richardson, Film Studies
• Excavating Evidence of Early Agriculture Engineering - Osku Backstrom, Environmental Sciences
• Accelerating Seafood Production in US: Controlled Breeding, Larviculture and Intensive Growout of High Value Marine Fish with Sustainable Eco-aquafeed in Recirculating Aquaculture System - Md Shah Alam, Finfish Aquaculture
• Convergence Towards a Disaster Resilient Food System - Jill Waity, Sociology and Criminology and Avinash Geda, Supply Chain
• Food for Living Soils: Using Continuous Living Cover to Enhance Carbon Sequestration on NC Croplands - Britt Moore, Environmental Sciences

Registration encouraged but not required.

Brain Health - Research and Innovation, the College of Health and Human Services, and the College of Science and Engineering are partnering to offer a Research Collider focused on brain health. 

“Brain health” is being applied broadly and inclusively – traumatic brain injury, aging, addiction, mental health, psychology, neuroscience, biology, mindfulness, etc.

This event will take place Thursday, December 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Azalea Coast Room (Fisher University Union).

At this time, we are requesting expressions of interest for presenters. Please submit your name, department, talk title, and a brief abstract to Kirsten Wisneski, Research Development Specialist, for consideration and planning. Deadline: November 15