Requestor (faculty or staff) Requestor uncw email
Midori Albert
Sue Kezios
Katie R. Peel kezioss@uncw.edu
peelk@uncw.edu
Steven Errante errantes@uncw.edu
Christine Liao
Donald Edward
Furst albertm@uncw.edu
liao@uncw.edu
furstd@uncw.edu
Anna Lena Phillips phillipsal@uncw.edu
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Activity Requested
The title of the project is Research and Development of Facial Age Regression Techniques for Use in Law Enforcement Cases of Internet Child
Predation . The idea for this project stems from a specific request by a detective whose main focus is the problem of Internet child (i.e., underage ) pornography, sexual solicitation, and or predation. The ability to age regress faces of adult undercover police officers would greatly enhance efforts to halt these illicit and illegal activities. The first step in implementing this project is to develop a methodology for age regressing facial photographs via the software requested in this grant proposal. Results of this project will serve numerous law enforcement agencies across our nation and help fight the battle of sexually exploiting young people.
UNCW MarineQuest will be providing outreach programs to rural schools in order to engage their students with ocean stewardship. We will be delivering the program in a 58 foot inflatable whale classroom (complete with internal foam skeleton and bean bag organs)which can hold classes of up to 30 students. The current whale classroom was built by MarineQuest staff in late 2009 and has been used to reach over 12,000 students. The plastic sheeting has become a bit brittle/fragile and we need to replace the whale before we can start traveling across the state to serve more school children. For our new outreach initiative, we plan to construct a new and improved whale classroom. We are requesting funds to help cover the costs of the materials we will use to create the inflatable whale.
We are in a position now to fill our bookshelf with the publications of our faculty members, and this is what I am requesting from the Friends of
UNCW. While we have some of our faculty members' books, we are far from having a complete collection. I would like to have at least one book from each faculty member who has published one. What will displaying these books do for us? We have very little space allotted to us, but are trying to establish a presence on campus nonetheless. In our corner of the library, we are marking off a small spacThe books indicate a sense of commitment and investment, as well as a collective sense of who is actually involved in our program, and the kinds of work that they do. Our faculty come from departments all across campus, from English and Sociology to Computer Science and Political and International Affairs, and work on projects from studies on race in Wilmington, to terrorism in Pakistan, to the Catholic concept of Purgatory.
Performances of Department of Music large ensembles, primarily the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, UNCW Wind Symphony. The portable electronic keyboard previously purchased with the support of the Friends of UNCW lacks a case to protect it when being moved from the
Cultural Arts Building to Kenan Auditorium.
The funding will support the elementary education program for establishing a drum circle training program in connection with the elementary education major course EDN 414 Arts Integration in the Elementary Classroom. Drum circle is a technique that can be used to integrate music with other academic subjects, establish classroom culture, and facilitate peer collaboration and communication skills. The drums purchased will be used for teaching drum circle technique in the EDN 414 course. The drums will also be available for elementary major students to borrow and take to local elementary schools to teach in the classroom they work with during their field experience and internship. This will benefit both the undergraduate students and local elementary school children.
Every two years UNCW hosts a steamroller print event that includes artists from the local community, area colleges, and the southeastern part of the state. We have been embarrassed not to have inking rollers in good condition for our guests to use (our only rollers are very old and in poor condition, especial low in the middle.)
Ecotone and Lookout Books seek funds to purchase audio recording equipment to be used by students in a new project: high-quality recordings of Ecotone and Lookout Books authors, to be featured online. As Ecotone enters its tenth-anniversary year, we are in the process of making a new website for the magazine, and will be able for the first time to feature audio of our contributors. This will afford students both the chance to learn recording techniques and the opportunity to work closely with our contributors, esteemed authors and artists, in making the recordings.
We have an audio recorder but lack a microphone and headphones of sufficient quality to create and edit studio-quality recordings. We would like to capture audio that is a match for the strength of the work in the magazine. In cases where we cannot meet with authors in person, we would like to have a second, smaller recorder that can be sent to authors and returned to us. These projects will allow students to develop new skills in both technology and communication skills that will last them far beyond their time with the creative writing department.

Stefanie Mancuso mancusos@uncw.edu
Susan Catapano catapanos@uncw.edu
Sarah Hallenbeck hallenbecks@uncw.edu
Angie Reid-Griffin griffina@uncw.edu
Aaron Thomas
Wilcox
Beth Thompson wilcoxa@uncw.edu
thompsonb@uncw.edu
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Each year the Association for Campus Entertainment (ACE) hosts a juried exhibition featuring student work known as the All Student Show. For the past three years this even has been held during Homecoming week. Traditionally, over 75 pieces are submitted, including drawings, watercolors, oils, photography, acrylics, ceramics, sculptures and experimental media. A UNC Wilmington alumnus/alumna or community member is selected to juror the show and selects the awards, including Best of Show, which is purchased for the University Union Permanent Art
Collection. UNCW has the largest student union art collection in the state of North Carolina. It is through this generous grant that we have been able to continually purchase the student work to grow our collection.
Support for Camp Starfish, San Pedro, BelizeCamp Starfish was started last summer, July 25-August 8, by two parents of children with special needs in San Pedro, Belize, sister city to Wilmington. The parents wanted their children to have a summer camp experience. Typically, in Belize, children with special needs do not attend school. There are no teachers prepared to support their needs. Children are welcome in school, but they usually just sit there as long as they are not disruptive. The summer camp meets Monday-Friday, 9 am-12 noon and provides about 25 children, with one volunteer per child, with activities, songs, games, and experiences they would not get anywhere else. The two parents asked me to bring undergraduate students this summer, 2015, to assist them in running the camp. I have recruited approximately 10 undergrad students to participate in this project. We need funds to purchase the materials to support the activities for the children. The San Pedro Town
Council provides a tee shirt for all participants and various merchants contribute a snack. We need help with arts and crafts materials, CD's for music, books to read and distribute to the children, etc.
I am requesting $600 for a wall-mounted shadow box to be installed on the first floor of Morton Hall. The shadow box will house a studentprepared curated collection of archival material related to the UNCW English Department's first English Professor, Shannon Morton, after whom the building is named. Students involved in the project will gain experience doing archival research in UNCW's University Archives; students and faculty in the English Department will gain a stronger, more concrete sense of the origins of the university and of their department.
The Junior Seahawk Academy is requesting financial support for 1)monies to cover the registration for 10 participants to attend the academy,
2)materials to support learning of STEM/Health concepts by participants, and 3)travel support to local health facility. Junior Seahawk Academy provides a platform for middle school aged students from economically deprived and underrepresented populations from the southeastern regions of North Carolina to develop interests in STEM and Health education careers. The support requested will also allow the program to engage participants various fun, hands-on activities that promote learning using real instruments. Not only will participants learn about the roles
STEM, Health and Education have on their everyday lives but they will learn to focus on careers and college readiness as it relates to living in this region.These funds will help the academy continue to serve its target population by providing support for deserving students as well as providing materials/opportunties to support learning activities and interest in STEM/Health fields.
Storage for dry materials in the ceramics studio. The studio currently has approximately 50 students working and learning the discipline and we all make our own clay body and our own glazes. Unfortunately, we don't have palace to store these materials inside, or under the cover of the kiln area, so we have built and used a ramshackle shelving unit covered with ripped and torn tarps. It looks terrible and is less than effective in keeping our dry materials dry and protected from rodents.
This request combines the interests and efforts of Randall Library and the UNCW Music Department and seeks to fund the purchase of DVDs to update and expand the Library's video collection of operas. The current collection is primarily VHS, an increasingly obsolete media format, with most of the opera performances dating to the 1980s. The consistently high circulation of these videos speaks to the need for updated content, as well as format. In addition, the summer of 2014 saw the premiere of Opera Wilmington, the city's first live opera company. UNCW's Lumina
Theater's success in presenting Met Opera Live in HD performances speaks to the community's existing interest in this medium, and Opera
Wilmington hopes to reach new audiences as well. The company has strong ties to the UNCW Music Department and includes the talents of faculty members as artistic director, principal conductor, set designer, and more. This collaboration has created new opportunities for UNCW students to benefit from live performances, internships, and related classes of study.

Dr. Kathleen
Schlichting schlichtingk@uncw.edu
Trisha Tinney, MS,
CHES
Natalie Picazo
Roger D. Shew,
Robert W. Fraser,
Christopher K.
Randall tinneyt@uncw.edu
picazon@uncw.edu
shewr@uncw.edu
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We are respectfully requesting a grant to help fund our continuing efforts to support and nurture the children who reside at the Good Shepherd
Homeless Shelter. One of the goals of the Good Shepherd is to transition children and families from the Shelter to independent housing.
Although there is great joy associated with moving into their own home, there are also challenges. When they leave the Good Shepherd, the children depart with minimal supplies and wearing only the clothes they came in with, which in many cases are the clothes on their backs. We are committed to ensuring that each child leaves with a personalized bag of supplies that will help them transition to their new life with a greater sense of comfort, belonging and ease. These bags will be called Homeward Bound Bags, and they will be assembled individually for each child (as the ages of children can be anywhere from a toddler to a young adolescent).
UNCW Health Promotion offers many educational programs for UNCW students, covering areas of sexual health, nutrition, sleep and stress, cold and flu prevention, sun safety, cancer prevention, and general health and wellness in order to help students make more informed decisions to lead healthier lives. UNCW Health Promotion would like to expand the cold and flu prevention programs offered to students. With the recent stir about Ebola and the less effective flu vaccine for 2014-2015, it is important that students are educated on proper procedures to help prevent against the cold and flu and other illnesses. On a college campus, thousands of students are coming in contact with others every day and germs can be quickly spread especially considering the majority of college students live in close quarters with roommates, are sitting elbow to elbow in many classrooms, eating in dining halls all touching the same tongs and serving spoons, sharing keyboards in the countless computer labs, and opening thousands of door handles to get into classrooms. When 20% of UNCW students report their academics being affected by the cold/flu/sore throat, it is vital that students become aware of steps they can take to help prevent these situations. Educational cold and flu peer educators will travel around campus and will distribute giveaways (hand sanitizer, Kleenex) with educational facts about cold and flu
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The diversity office of Centro Hispano operates a youth mentoring program called, MI CASA (Mentors Initiating Community Action, Support, and
Advocacy) that pairs 37 UNCW mentors with 29 high school students for a two year commitment. Our students come from urban and rural areas in New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender County. This program paves access to higher education for high achieving Hispanic students in our local high schools. Approximately 50% of them become full-time UNCW students; all others enroll at colleges and universities across our state/nation. We have very dedicated UNCW mentors who are very involved with their high school mentees. We are requesting funding to support involvement and leadership opportunities for the UNCW mentors in the youth mentoring program. Gaining this grant would impact our mission significantly as mentors would have valuable opportunities for positive engagement with their mentors and the opportunities to strengthen their leadership skills.
Campus Outdoor Educational Exhibit and Kiosk on Longleaf Pine and Naval Stores UNCW has one of the larger remaining tracts of longleaf pines on public property in NHC. Naval stores artifacts (notched trees and tar kilns) are also present. The exhibit's goals are to hilite the importance of the endangered longleaf pine ecosystem and to define naval stores and their historical importance to our area. Wilmington was the naval stores capital of the world for many years. There are few sites left in NHC with evidence of the naval stores industry. The area will be near the Cultural
Arts building and will include multiple exhibits and signage. The Cape Fear Museum has been contacted and they have written a letter of support for this project (see attached). Our goal is to make this an educational exhibit for UNCW as well as for the community.

C. Sue Combs &
Steve Elliott combsc@uncw.edu
Thomas Salzman salzmant@uncw.edu
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This is a request to support the I Can Do It, You Can Do It (ICDI) program being conducted in the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences.
The ICDI program utilizes faculty and students from the School to provide physical activity programs to individuals with disabilities. Recently, the
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Nutrition (PCFSN) endorsed ICDI programs (UNCW is one of 9 programs nationally recognized) and charged the program to increase access for all Americans regardless of ability to lead a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity and good nutrition. The program at UNCW matches mentors (university students) with individuals with disabilities (mentees) with the express purpose of assisting participants to safely and successfully participate in an organized physical activity session at the UNC Wilmington campus.
The program follows up by encouraging additional physical activity time through the week by going walking, bowling, hiking, biking, or any other form of physical activity. The program also offers information to the participants and their families about nutrition and making healthy food choices. Mentors are UNCW students (majoring in Physical Education and Health, Exercise Science, Special Education/Adapted, and Recreation,
Sport Leadership and Tourism Management) enrolled in PED 415 (Adapted Physical Activity). Currently, there are three different sessions offered on campus. Those include Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Participants are transported by public school buses on Wednesday and
Friday. Because of limited budgets, ICDI pays for the transportation costs. This is approximately $50.00 per week for 10 weeks. Also, the ICDI program provides healthy snacks including weekly demonstration of juicing fruits and vegetables for participants.
Academic Significance/Enhanced Student Learning Outcomes:This equipment would allow us to integrate wireless technology in to both our academic programming, as well as our production program. This purchase would expose our students to current technologies we haven't been able to integrate into our program at this time. Not only would wireless dimming teach our students new technology, it would also serve to liberate their visualization in the design aspect of their endeavors. They would learn how to physically use this technology through hands on application of the devices. They would also use the availability of the technology to liberate their design ideas that might be limited by the constraints of our current lighting system.This equipment could also serve to inspire other aspects of the curriculum such as l Scenic Design and
Entertainment Engineering. This equipment could be integrated into these areas to serve as controllers for scenery and special effect automation.