College of Arts and Sciences
Connecting to the Community
Anthropology
In 2005, UNCW Anthropology professor Midori Albert helped
identify remains of Katrina victims. “It’s a way to contribute a
service no one wants to think about because it’s unpleasant,”
said Midori Albert. “The dead people are just as important as
the living.”
Throughout the year Anthropology faculty, staff and students
engage in “hands-on” research in archaeology, biological
anthropology and cultural anthropology in their own backyard
and around the world.
http://www.uncw.edu/ant/news.html
Art and Art History
Along with celebrating our new home in the Cultural Arts
Building, the Art and Art History department also mark 2006 2007 as UNCW’s Year of the Arts. We are holding many special
events honoring the arts and artists throughout the year. In fact,
Martha Mayer Erlebacher, whose career as an artist spans 35
years joined the campus as a lecturer, artist-in-residence and
guest. Her portraits contain many references to Greek
mythology and are abundant in allegorical sources.
http://www.uncw.edu/art/news.html
Biology and Marine Biology
The Department of Biology and Marine Biology contribute new
insights in general biological principles from biological
processes to coastal and marine environments. When possible,
our department focuses on biological phenomena that impact
the quality of life in our region and the nation.
http://www.uncw.edu/bio/NewsEventsNewProjects.html
Chemistry and BioChemistry
Student centered research with top-notch faculty and cutting
edge instruction lead the way for tomorrow’s scientists,
physicians and teachers. Research topics include structure of
bacterial membranes, testing of biodiesels, effects of global
warming, and protein-lipid interactions to name a few.
http://www.uncw.edu/chem/
Communication Studies
More important today than ever is the need to connect,
understand and to be understood. More importantly, there is a
revolutionary discovery that communication is, and always has
been, far more central to whatever it means to be a human
being than had ever before been supposed. (W. Barnett Pearce,
Communication and the Human Condition).
http://www.uncw.edu/com/index.html
Computer Science
Our department supports the university’s values of diversity,
global perspectives, community citizenship, and human
integrity. UNCW students are on the cutting edge of technology
and work with world class faculty and state of the art networks.
http://www.uncw.edu/csc/
Creative Writing
You’ll find fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction workshops;
screenwriting and playwriting. UNCW Master of Fine Arts
students freely mingle with our community and assist other
creative talents by volunteering to visit classrooms, clubs, after
school programs and anywhere else they may be needed.
http://www.uncw.edu/writers/community-action.html
English
The English Department offers a variety of opportunities for
writers in the community to share the love of words. The
Buckner Lecture Series was established by Charles F. Green,
III, to provide funding for us to bring distinguished guest
presenters to UNCW and in honor of his friend, Katherine K.
Buckner. In addition, English majors volunteer their services
through the Writing Center, where they are consultants and
tutors.
http://www.uncw.edu/english/
Environmental Studies
Be a part of the Painted Bunting Observer Team (PBOT),
monitoring the eastern population of the Painted Bunting, which
is in decline. UNCW Environmental Studies faculty and students
help determine what is causing this and other environmental
concerns.
http://www.uncw.edu/evs/
Film Studies
Recently UNCW Film Studies students and faculty members put
video cameras in the hands of middle school girls. Both groups
learned lessons we never expected. This is just one of the many
community projects the Film Studies program is involved in with
our community.
http://www.uncw.edu/filmstudies/
Foreign Languages and Literatures
“Through teaching, service, and research, the faculty of the
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures serves as a
bridge connecting local, regional, and international concerns.
Similarly, we strive to link the literatures and cultures of the past
and the emerging global communities of the present and future.”
http://www.uncw.edu/fll/
Geography and Geology
Spanning the social, physical and biological sciences, our
program prepares students for teaching, research and technical
careers. With coastal sounds, estuaries, tidal creeks, barrier
islands and the Atlantic Ocean right outside our door, our
research includes contaminant transport in tidal creeks and
quantifying tidal hydrodynamics, as well as assessing the
impact of hurricanes and nor’easters on our local beaches and
marshes, among other issues.
http://www.uncw.edu/earsci/
Health and Applied Human Sciences
How physically fit are firefighters? Several of our exercise
science students found out when they were involved in a three
day comprehensive fitness assessment of the New Bern, NC
firefighters. Last year the group conducted the same tests on
firefighters from Wake Forest.
http://www.uncw.edu/hahs/
On Saturday, August 11, 2007, the National Strength and
Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and
Conditioning Specialist Exam will be held. Cut-off date for
registration is June 15, 2007
For more information contact Wayland Tseh at
tsehw@uncw.edu or 910.962.2484.
History
UNCW history professor Lynn Wood Mollenauer is fascinated
by the Affair of the Poisons; so much so, it became the focus of
her new book Strange Revelations: Magic, Poisons, and
Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France. Our web site features a number
of books produced by UNCW historians this year, including
tomes by Walt Conser, David La Vere, Will Moore and David
Sepkoski. You’ll also read about J. R. Hinkson, a UNCW
graduate student who is the recipient of the 2007 Cashman
Prize of the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear for his
Master of Arts Thesis “Of Gog and Naboth: The Christian
Response to the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977.”
http://www.uncw.edu/hst/news/news.html
Mathematics and Statistics
Dedicated to scholarship and research, our faculty and students
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics are active
inside and outside the classroom. Many UNCW faculty, as well
as visiting faculty, offer interesting seminars throughout the
year.
http://www.uncw.edu/math/news.html
Music
The Music Department web site is a valuable resource and
informative tool for our faculty, students, as well as visitors and
guests interested in learning more about our department. The
various links on the site include admission information, activities
of our faculty, our performance calendar, degree programs
offered, and several other helpful informative links about our
department. We also include information about summer camps.
http://appserv02.uncw.edu/caic/events-MUS.asp
Philosophy & Religion
“From Hindu Sacred Music” to “St. Paul and the Roman Empire”
to “The Evolution-Creation Struggle” lectures are held
throughout the year aimed at stimulating discussion and the
mind. Fulfilling the mission of the Philosophy and Religion
department these lectures provide an international perspective,
as well as featuring community citizenship and the pursuit and
communication of knowledge integral to being human.
http://www.uncw.edu/par/news-events.html
Physics and Physical Oceanography
Along with quality programs leading to a Bachelor of Science
and a Bachelor of Arts, the Department of Physics and Physical
Oceanography provide courses designed to stimulate the
imagination, increase rational thought, satisfy intellectual
curiosity and acquaint students with the laws of nature. In
addition, Liping Gan, an experimentalist at UNCW, has
discovered a means to measure the life of a pion – the lightest
particle made of quark-antiquark pairs.
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split/821-2.html
Find out what other researchers are discovering at UNCW:
http://www.uncw.edu/phy/alumni-facultyresearch.html
Political Science
Last year we set-up an internship program in Washington DC,
this year the Department of Political Science held a conference
on “Improving Public Policy in NC.” Each were very instrumental
in the Blueprint for Impact: Regional Health and Human
Services Needs Assessment.
http://www.uncw.edu/pls/
Psychology
The UNCW Psychology department is seeking people who
would like to be a part of an exciting opportunity to learn about
aging. Men and women of all ages, especially those 55 and over
are being asked to participate.
http://www.uncw.edu/psy/research.html
Social Work
Providing professional-trained social workers for human and
social service organizations in the state and region.
http://www.uncw.edu/swk/center/
Sociology and Criminal Justice
Looking at human society with a global perspective, the faculty,
staff and students of the Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice seek to enhance understanding amongst the
multicultural segments of American Society.
http://www.uncw.edu/soccrj/news.html
UNCW, along with the Onslow County Extension program, has
designed a program to help military personnel receive a college
education at their local community college, Camp Lejeune or
even online.
http://www.uncw.edu/soccrj/DesjardinsandErskine.html
Theatre Program
Patrons and donors recently were treated to a light buffet and a
benefit performance of Fuddy Meers, a comic piece by David
Lindsey-Abaire. Proceeds from the performance benefit the
Doug Swink Memorial Scholarship for Theatre.
http://www.uncw.edu/thr/news3for25.html
Our slogan is “wave of the future” and we’re excited by what the
future holds.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
Cameron School of Business
The Cameron School of Business assists our community with
growth and helps to increase the region’s quality of life. The
Center for Business and Economics Services, the Coastal
Entrepreneur Council, and the Small Business and Technology
Development Center offer workshops, seminars, short courses
and other information for citizens within the region.
http://www.csb.uncw.edu/centers/index.stm
Watson School of Education
re:search a journey of intellectual inquiry
A journal of contributions from UNCW faculty, staff and students
directly improving the ways we live and learn. From multidisciplinary approaches to music’s effect on cognitive
development in children to the themes of obesity and violence.
http://www.uncw.edu/ed/pdfs/ReSearch2006.pdf
http://www.uncw.edu/ed/community.html
School of Nursing
“Two words characterize the UNC Wilmington School of
Nursing: growth and change.” This is according to Dr. Virginia
Adams, Dean of the School of Nursing, where our students are
offered more than just a curriculum, they are given a distinctive
experience. For instance, the UNCW School of Nursing and the
Department of Foreign Language worked together and created
a unique program where students, accompanied by a faculty
member, spend three weeks in Peru to participate in a clinical
and cultural immersion experience.
http://www.uncw.edu/son/photos/Peru2007/ClinicalCulturalJournal1.htm
http://www.uncw.edu/son/welcome.htm
The Graduate School
and Research
Graduate Liberal Studies
This unique, integrated program combines traditional values
with courses directly in touch with the various dimensions of
today’s world. This permits our students to deepen their
understanding of the global community. Typically, Graduate
Liberal Studies (GLS) programs reflect an older, cultural
tradition of scholarship, which liberally educates the whole
person, providing breadth and depth. The program allows
regional leaders such as community college and hospital board
members, business and educational administrators, teachers,
nurses, environmentalists, those working in the tourist industry
and others to consider both individually and together the issues
fundamental to improving the quality of life in southeastern
North Carolina.
http://www.uncw.edu/mals/
Office of Research Services
and Sponsored Programs
(ORSSP)
Applying for grants can be a tedious, laborious process, the
Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs assist
our faculty members to identify funding sources, help develop
and submit their proposal and monitor the projects after they
receive funding. Our office also makes sure the university is in
compliance with human and animal activities, as well as
transferring research-derived technology into commercial use.
http://www.uncw.edu/orssp/
Office of Technology
Transfer
How does academic research and technology transfer to the
public sector? The Office of Technology Transfer oversees the
process by working closely with the Intellectual Property
Committee, faculty and staff. Patents, licensing and copyrights
are reviewed with the idea general economic benefit of the
coastal regions, as well as the rest of North Carolina, in mind.
http://www.uncw.edu/ott/
DIVISIONS
Business Affairs
If you are looking for furniture, computer equipment or just a
lamp, or in need of a safety related training program or a
parking permit, Business Affairs is the place to go. Our division
features monthly surplus sales, safety classes, bicycle
registrations and recycling, along with many other services.
http://www.uncw.edu/ba/
Information Technology Systems
(ITSD)
Aimed at fostering an open dialogue among scholars, students
and the public, ITSD looks at the impact information technology
has “on the way we think, interact, learn, behave and even how
we reshape our basic values.”
http://www.uncw.edu/itsd/itsd/techhorizons.htm
Academic Affairs
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supports technology-based instruction and learning both
on campus and through distance education
encourages intellectual inquiry across disciplines to
promote innovation and discovery
provides for the economic, social and cultural
advancement of the greater Wilmington community
through continuing personal and professional education
http://www.uncw.edu/aa/
Public Service and Continuing
Studies
Narrated by Lou Gossett, Jr., our hour long documentary about
the Marines of Montford Point recognizes the first African
Americans to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. Over 60
marines were interviewed over a five year period.
http://www.uncw.edu/dpscs/news.htm
Along with producing quality documentaries, the Division for
Public Service and Continuing Studies also features the Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute, Youth Programs featuring our stellar
MarineQuest program now in its 25th year, CEU and certificate
Professional Development programs and Conference Services
all designed with the community in mind.
Student Affairs
"Creating Experiences for Life" is the motto of Student Affairs.
Our staff is devoted to providing students will personal attention;
they are committed to helping develop essential skills to enable
a student’s personal and academic growth during and beyond
the college years.
http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/
University Advancement
Enhancing the image of the university by strengthening
relationships through communication and interaction, University
Advancement raises funds from the private sector to further the
university’s mission of excellence in teaching, research and
public service.
http://www.uncw.edu/uniadv/about-mission.htm
CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE
Chancellor’s Office
Whether assisting with Freshman Move-In or welcoming
dignitaries to a world premiere documentary, Chancellor
DePaolo is there for UNCW faculty, staff, students and the
community! Increasing UNCW’s participation in the community
is always at the forefront.
http://www.uncw.edu/chancellor/pdfs/State_of_university_2006.pdf