Campus Highlight: Wilmington Cross-City Trail

Did you know that the Wilmington Gary Shell Cross-City trail now goes through UNCW's campus? To learn more about this great new addition to the Wilmington community visit the link below! 

Wilmington Gary Shell Cross-City Trail

UNCW Team Surfs to Third Place at National Championship!

Congratulations to the UNCW Surf Team for placing third at the 2012 NSSA National Interscholastic Championships last weekend in Dana Point, California! One of UNC Wilmington's most popular club sports, the UNCW Surf Team has now been one the top four teams in the country for four consecutive years, and placed third for the second consecutive year. Team member Tony Silvagni, UNCW student and founder of the Tony Silvagni Surf School, even placed first in the collegiate longboarding category, not only helping UNCW place third but also the highest of all East Coast schools in the competition.


"As coach of the surf team, I am very proud of our team's performance at Nationals this year. As a professor, I am even more proud that our team GPA is 3.0. These students are true scholar athletes," said McNamara. Dr. McNamara is a professor of physics and physical oceanography on campus.

The team competed against other collegiate surf teams such as San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara, Florida Institute of Technology, Mira Costa, University of Central Florida, Saddleback, Flagler, UC San Diego, University of North Florida, Cal State San Marcos, UCLA, University of San Diego and USC. Congratulations again to these tremendous scholar athletes for their incredible achievement!

To learn more about the UNCW Surf Team, visit http://student.uncw.edu/org/surfclub/.

Summer programs at UNCW!

Although the academic year has come to a close, UNCW will continue to offer top-notch academic programs to current and prospective students alike. Our large variety of summer academic enrichment programs span many disciplines, from Marine Biology and Chemistry, to Art, Theatre, and Business, and are designed for all age groups from elementary school to high school. Many summer sports camps are offered as well.

Besides offering academic and sports-related summer opportunities, our summer programs give students the chance to stay on campus and provide a way to visit UNCW on a more informal level. All summer academic enrichment opportunities are designed in accordance with state and national standards, designed by UNCW faculty and staff, and field tested directly by our students.

The link below will take you to our Youth Programs website. We extend you our invitation to be a Seahawk for a summer!

Summer Programs

Final Grades Due for New Seahawks!

If you are an admitted student who has graduated or is nearing graduation, it is necessary that UNCW receives a copy of your final high school transcript showing all senior year grades. The transcript must verify the actual graduation date, not the expected graduation date. UNCW also requires official sealed documentation for any advanced credit that you may be eligible for. This includes: community college or university-level coursework completed while in high school, AP credit, and IB credit.

Final high school transcripts and other documents should be sent to UNCW as soon as possible at the following address:

UNCW Office of Admissions
601 S College Rd
Wilmington, NC 28403-5904

For further information, please refer to Step 7 in the Required section of your Teal Ticket.

Campus Dining Wins National Award

UNCW Campus Dining has received a national award for a New Orleans themed event hosted in Wagoner Hall, UNCW's main campus dining facility, last fall.  The event served as a tie-in event with Synergy, UNCW's Common Reading Program.  Synergy is a common reading reading experience designed to help build community among university students, primarily freshman students, faculty and staff by encouraging them to read one book together at the start of each academic year.  This year's reading selection was Zeitoun, a non-fiction account of one man's decision to remain in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.  The book, centered around a prosperous Syrian-American man, highlights the issues of injustice and social responsibility.

While the University community was reading Zeitoun, Campus Dining was planning a special event to be included in the University's event series surrounding the book.  The aptly named "NOLA Lunch" incorporated traditional aspects of New Orleans food and culture into an event that reinforced what the community learned by reading the book.  The event was then nominated and subsequently received Gold in the annual Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards from the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS).

"Feeding large numbers of students nutritious, high quality food on a daily basis is a big job," said Brian Dailey, director of Auxiliary Services, "but at UNCW we think Campus Dining can do even more than that. Dining is a large part of campus life, and offers many opportunities to partner with the academic community to reinforce what students are studying and learning. The NOLA Lunch was an excellent example of how well this approach can work."

Information on Campus Dining Services can be found at http://uncw.edu/dining/.  For more information on the event, please visit the full article below!

UNCW Faculty Highlight- "The Rock Whisperer"

UNCW Environmental Studies professor Dr. Paul Hearty has just received a tremendous grant from the National Science Foundation, one that will fully fund a team of world-class researchers studying climate change and its potential future implications.

Dr. Hearty is one of five principal investigators on a project designed to provide a comprehensive model of past climate change by studying various interconnected aspects of the biosphere, including the Earth's crust, oceans, atmosphere and ice sheets.  The main target of their study is an era of history known as the Mid-Pliocene Climatic Optimum (PLIOMAX), an era which has been identified as a time period that closely resembles the environmental conditions predicted by current models of climate change.  Fossil data and geological data from this ancient warming period will be used to build improved databases of sea-levels and ice sheet behavior, as well as provide the raw data for experiments that hope to predict the future global sea level under various climate change scenarios.  The ultimate goal of this project is to provide more accurate predictions of future sea-level rises and ice sheet behavior.

Dr. Hearty will collaborate on the $4.25 million, five-year study with Dr. Maureen Raymo of Columbia University, who has affectionately named Dr. Hearty "The Rock Whisperer," for his extensive expertise in field geology.  Along with Dr. Hearty and Dr. Raymo are geoscientist Rob DeConto from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, physicist Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and earth scientist David Pollard of Penn State.

For more information on this important and potentially influential study, please visit the link to the full article below.

UNCW Professor Part of Major NSF Grant for Climate Change Research

Living on Campus - Sign up deadline fast approaching

The Office of Housing and Residence Life at the University of North Carolina Wilmington offers students a safe, affordable, and well-maintained residential facilities, complemented by exceptional customer service from highly trained staff. The department fosters inclusive communities for holistic student learning by promoting personal responsibility, offering intentional programming, and providing leadership development opportunities.

Each year almost 96 percent of first year students make the decision to live on-campus while attending the University of North Carolina Wilmington. You'll find living on-campus to be one of your best moves yet! Our residence halls, suites and apartments provide students with an affordable convenient and welcoming living experience.

When you reside with us, you'll be connected to some of the biggest events and happenings around campus, not to mention the volleyball and basketball courts, game rooms, spacious programming spaces, and technologically advanced study spaces throughout our facilities. Best of all, avoid the hassle of multiple bills and grocery shopping; living on-campus is an all-inclusive payment (rent, cable, internet, water and phone) with meal plan options that allow you a variety of campus dining locations. When you join us as a first year student, you're guaranteed the opportunity to remain on-campus through graduation. Come and make the move!

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