Local employers in the construction industry are invited to describe their needs during a session next week at Cape Fear Community College’s North Campus. In collaboration with the employment offices in New Hanover and Pender counties and New Hanover and Pender County schools, CFCC is hosting the listening session 3 to 5 p.m. Monday. “We always want to st ...

At the age of 14, Cynthia Villa is already exploring several different career options for her future. Villa is one of 44 freshmen currently enrolled in the area’s new workforce readiness high school called Southeast Area Technical High School (SEA-TECH), housed at Cape Fear Community College’s North Campus in Castle Hayne. The class of 2021, which began this ...

A UNCW professor has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate ways public policies will affect economic decisions and the coastal environment in the future, said an announcement Thursday. Dylan McNamara, associate professor and chair of the UNCW Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, will lead an interdisc ...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington was recently selected in a grant competition by the NOAA Marine Debris Program. UNCW was one of four recipients of the 2017 grant awards, which totaled more than $935,000 of funding for marine debris research efforts, according to the NOAA Marine Debris Program. Marine debris are man-made materials that end up in the global ma ...

A program aimed at boosting existing and aspiring educators and lower-performing students could be coming to Wilmington next school year, in what would be a collaboration between New Hanover County Schools and the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Several community forums will be held to discuss and gather public input about a proposed laboratory school at D.C. V ...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington has announced the hiring of its new regional director of the Small Business and Technology Development Center.   Heather McWhorter took on the new role with the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) on Aug. 2. McWhorter was hired to replace Fran Scarlett, the previous director, who left the position in N ...

Alcami Corp., a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing firm with a major presence in Wilmington, has teamed up with the University of North Carolina Wilmington for a new laboratory course this fall, company officials announced Wednesday.  The Alcami GMP Training Lab will facilitate the course at UNCW’s Marine Biology Center (MARBIONC), according to a ne ...

Donors contributed more than $17.2 million in gifts and commitments to the University of North Carolina Wilmington during the fiscal year 2016-17, according to an announcement Monday. That figure includes the largest outright philanthropic commitment in the university's history, a $5 million ($1 million a year for five years) gift from former UNCW faculty member You ...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington will begin offering two online master’s degrees in the 2018 fall semester, officials with the university announced this week. One master’s degree includes a concentrated one-year master’s program in finance and investment management. The other is a one-year professional science master’s degree program i ...

Another milestone for a recent Cape Fear Community College expansion is taking place during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Advanced & Emerging Technologies building (A&ET) at the college’s North Campus. The ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, when students and others join CFCC officials, including CFCC President Amanda Lee, at the center, ...