University of North Carolina Wilmington News

Literary agent James Fitzgerald will be joining the Department of Creative Writing, Randall Library and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 's inaugural Creative Writers Conference taking place June 28-30, the University of North Carolina Wilmington announced today.

Bambi Weavil is Out Impact, Inc.'s Founder and President since June 2007. Bambi is a graduate from the class of 2004 from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Professional Writing.

"This is simply some whacko being a killer," said Pamela Evers, homeowner, environmental attorney and University of North Carolina Wilmington business professor.

Police at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are investigating five small fires that were found on campus early Friday morning, according to an email sent to students, faculty and staff.

Michael B. McCall, founding president and chief executive officer of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, will deliver the address for the 48th Commencement and Awarding of Credentials at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College set for 6 p.m. Friday.

The bright blue walls, multi-colored peach paintings and crisp white booths all lend an upbeat, almost vacation-like atmosphere to The Fuzzy Peach on College Avenue.

What do you call a coastal town that keeps spending millions of dollars on bringing sand to rebuild its eroded beaches? According to scientists at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, "sucker" is the appropriate term.

Caribbean Studies Press announces the publication of "Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race" by Mark Edelman Boren, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington .

Michael B. McCall, founding president and chief executive officer of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, will deliver the address for the 48th Commencement and Awarding of Credentials at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College set for 6 p.m. Friday.

Clyde Edgerton has written 10 novels, including most recently The Bible Salesman and The Night Train.

Fink, who holds a Ph.D. from Yale, taught at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the 1980s through 1991, when she joined the faculty of the Ohio State University.

In an ongoing study of Wrightsville Beach's stormwater system, Dr. Rachel Noble of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Science in Morehead City has been working with the town to determine the root of bacterial contamination that triggers swimming advisories during summer months.

Full announcement from ECO WNC: - ECO, the Environmental and Conservation Organization, will host a Wild Plant Walk on Saturday, May 4 from 10-12 as part of its monthly Sustainable Living Workshop Series.

April 27--Long before Dave Monahan ever set foot in Southeastern North Carolina, he was a fan of feature-film "Blue Velvet," a concoction of small-town values with smatters of kinky sex, drug use, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and one hairy, severed ear.

Officials at the University of North Carolina Wilmington announced Friday plans to open its Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for use late this summer.

Students from Snipes Elementary School had a morning full of cultural arts Thursday, thanks to the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Last minute reminder: The creative writing department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is throwing a launch party for the spring issue of Ecotone, the UNCW literary magazine.

April is Poetry Month so it's only appropriate to tip a quill to longtime Wilmington poet Jean Jones, who'll be giving a reading a 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, at Pomegranate Books.