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Collaborations

Research Trajectory

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

Building a Team

Scholars@UNCW
ORCiD
Google Scholar
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.

Scholars@UNCW

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.

ORCiD

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.

Google Scholar

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 (UNCW login required)

Ways to Connect

The Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series 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:

  • The Flood Risk and Resilience Seminar Series: Advancing Research-Based Solutions for Coastal North Carolina
  • Healthcare in the Era of Machine Learning

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 login required)

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

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 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 (starting in FY25) as milestones are achieved. 

RESEARCH HUBS DIVE DEEP

Partner Events

Peer Review Week To acknowledge the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the quality and integrity of research (September) Peer Review Week
Open Access Week To promote the free and unrestricted sharing of research, scholarship, and knowledge (October) Open Access Week
Love Data Week To explore 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 To celebrate fair use and fair dealing doctrines in international copyright law and their support of the public good (February) Fair Use Week
Health & Human Services Week To inspire, educate, and promote health and wellness in our community and beyond (March) Health & Human Services Week
Coastal & Marine Science Events To showcase expertise from well-known environmental organization, government agencies, and other leading research institutions (year round) Coastal & Marine Science Events
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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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