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UNCW CELEBRATES 75 YEARS
1947 2022
On September 4, 2022, UNCW will celebrate 75 years of service to the Wilmington community.
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The Leonard Legacy
The student recreation center is now officially known as the “Pat Leonard Student Recreation Center” in honor of the late UNCW Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, who passed away on June 2, 2020.
“Pat dedicated herself to generations of students at UNCW. The recreation center is one of many special buildings, projects and services she championed during her decades here,” said Chancellor Jose V. Sartarelli. “Her skill as a leader and mentor, combined with her sense of humor and her selfless care for others, shaped and supported our Seahawk spirit for years, and we are honored to recognize her memory by naming the student recreation center for her.”
Leonard joined UNCW in 1983 as the associate dean of students. She was named dean of students in 1987 and became vice chancellor in 1996, a position she held for 24 years. She was the longestserving vice chancellor at UNCW.
– Caroline Cropp ’99, ’06M
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Making a Splash
UNCW’s Seahawk Natatorium, home of the university’s highly successful swimming and diving teams, will be renamed the David B. Allen Natatorium to commemorate the remarkable 37-year commitment of Dave Allen as head coach of the program from 1977-2014. A formal dedication ceremony will be announced at a later date. Allen’s name became synonymous with the UNCW swimming and diving program following a successful career full of impressive accomplishments.
– Joe Browning
Excellence by Degrees
UNCW continues to grow with the times, as evidenced by new degree offerings, three of which launch in fall 2022.
UNCW is officially the first institution in the UNC System to offer undergraduate degrees in cybersecurity and intelligent systems engineering. Both programs are designed to meet current and future labor demands in a growing, critical industry.
Just as the physical security and infrastructure of organizations, cities and the nation must be maintained and strengthened, cybersecurity must be taken seriously. These degrees will arm students with specialized skills to connect and protect cyber and physical systems. Creating, supporting and equipping innovative academic programs is a priority of UNCW’s ongoing comprehensive campaign, Like No Other: The Campaign for UNCW.
The bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity is housed in the Department of Computer Science within the College of Arts and Sciences and the Congdon School of Supply Chain, Business Analytics and Information Systems within the Cameron School of Business. The intelligent systems engineering program is offered by the Department of Computer Science.
Taking full advantage of UNCW’s envious coastal location and extensive research infrastructure, the new Applied Coastal and Ocean Sciences Ph.D. program will offer interdisciplinary courses and research experiences in coastal and ocean sciences, entrepreneurship and technology development.
“This degree will increase the number of highly trained doctoral students working to solve critical coastal problems and engage undergraduate students in various ways, thus helping meet our commitment to undergraduate education,” said Dr. James J. Winebrake, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Students will have access to the high-tech Mariculture Facility on Wrightsville Beach, MARBIONC and the Shellfish Research Hatchery at the 170,000-square-foot Center for Marine Science.
The North Carolina Board of Governors approved the Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at its April meeting. Scheduled to launch in fall 2023 (pending final approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges), the new doctoral program will build on the existing successful master’s program in chemistry, particularly the pharmaceutical chemistry concentration.
UNCW’s doctoral program tally is now at six. The others are Integrative, Comparative and Marine Biology (Ph.D.), Educational Leadership (Ed.D.), Psychology (Ph.D.) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).
– C.C.
