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About 30 miles off the coast of eastern North Carolina stands Frying Pan Tower, a local maritime relic that looms over a frying pan-shaped, sandy ridge known as Frying Pan Shoals.

If you love the ocean and are a thought leader, innovator, changemaker, or a curious and caring community member, I invite you to attend first ever Ocean Innovation Conference on September 19 at UNCW’s Burney Center.    Organized by the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) in partnership with the Alliance for the Blue Economy (“All Blue”) volunteers, this conference was created to bring together people to learn about prob...

The three-day summit, which ends March 18th, hosts international, national and local experts to examine regional problems and concerns. 

NSF-funded projects aim to create economic shift

GREENVILLE, N.C. (05/11/2023) — Two multi-institutional teams involving East Carolina University faculty members have been awarded $1 million each from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program to create economic, societal and technological opportunities in their regions. Dr. Reide Corbett, dean of Integrated Coastal Programs at ECU and executive director […]

Two ECU-involved projects have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to create economic changes in the Carolinas.

WILMINGTON — Two UNCW professors and researches have been awarded an almost $400,000 National Estuarine Research Reserve Science Collaborative Grant to further…

The Innovators – The disruptors shaking things up and getting the region to see things in a di

Steve W. Ross, research professor in the Center for Marine Science, will be the chief scientist of t

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