Dedication to recognition gives UNCW a chance to put our high-impact researchers in the spotlight. Explore our many research accomplishments and contributions to discovery and innovation.
These awards recognize faculty for their excellence in research, innovation and scholarship leading to the advancement of knowledge in their own fields, discoveries with significant societal impact and the engagement of students in the process.
The Rising Research Excellence Awards honor faculty who are emerging as leaders in their fields, and the Research Collaboration Award celebrates a team of faculty researchers who have collectively made unique and significant contributions through their research collaboration.The James F. Merritt Million Dollar Club is a university honor and recognition for faculty and staff who have received $1 million or more in external research funding.
There are multiple internal funding opportunities to support and encourage research, scholarship, creative works and innovation at UNCW.