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Graduate Research At UNCW

Graduate

Add value to your UNCW graduate degree by immersing yourself in the many research opportunities available. You’ll conduct independent and collaborative research that has an impact regionally, nationally or internationally.

Curiosity. Inquiry. Impact.

At UNCW, we believe our research should help solve problems, answer important questions and contribute to the betterment of our regional and global communities. As a graduate researcher, you will be part of something that makes a difference.

You will work as part of a team under faculty experts and also lead projects of your own. You may mentor undergraduate students who are just learning how to conduct research.

As you develop and you will publish your peer-reviewed work in scholarly journals.

UNCW faculty and staff will help you find funding for your project and travel support to present your findings at national conferences.

Turn your passion, dedication and your foundation of knowledge about a subject into a research project that will help you reach your academic and professional goals.

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Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity (Carnegie Classification)

Top 100

UNCW Is Among the Top Public Universities as Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

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One of Four North Carolina Universities Featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges

Graduate Student Research

Chemistry and biochemistry professor Jeremy Morgan and graduate student Mark Healey produce nitrogen-based molecules that have the potential to aid in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.

While studying the Venus flytrap under the guidance of Michael Durako, a professor in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Jessica Roach learned the intricacies and mysteries of these peculiar insect connoisseurs that have made them vulnerable to poaching.

Graduate students Marae Lindquist and Evan Buckland collect field data on Masonboro Island with Raymond Danner for his research on the winter population of saltmarsh and seaside sparrows in southeastern North Carolina.

Sydney Batchelder '19M worked with children in the Center for Pediatric Behavioral Health while working on her doctorate in psychology.

Professor and student holding boxes of lab equipment
student waters a Venus flytrap with a syringe
Three people work together tagging birds in the marsh
A student works with a child holding a kid’s toy
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