UNC Wilmington International Faculty and Staff Association

Congratulations Christina! 🎊

Congratulations to Dr Christina Lord, Associate Professor of French, for receiving a 2026 Rising Research Achievement Award. We are so proud of her accomplishments!

The accolades continue: congratulations Satlaj Dighe 🎊

Dr. Satlaj Dighe has been honored with a Bridge Builder Award from the Office of International Students and Scholars for her outstanding support of international students. Congrats!

Congratulations Sara!

Congratulations to Dr. Sara Movahedazarhouligh, recipient of UNCW’s 2026 Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for the Watson College! Recognized at the April 28 Faculty Awards Celebration.

Congratulations Indranil! 🎊

Indranil Ghosh Appointed Interim Editor-in-chief for AJMMS Indranil Ghosh, professor of statistics and graduate coordinator in the UNCW Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected interim editor-in-chief of the AJMMS.

Congratulations Eman! 🎊

Making sense of the Egyptian pyramids’ enduring conspiracies For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age.

Congratulations Daisy! 🎊

🎉🏆 Big cheers for our amazing faculty! 🏆🎉

We had an amazing time yesterday at Ana Vizcarra Rankin workshop "The Art of Mapping" Thanks to everyone that attended and special thanks to Ana for such an interactive and fun event! 🙂

‘The Art of Mapping’, remember to join us TODAY for this interactive and fun workshop by Ana Vizcarra Rankin.
Free Event!
Where: UNCW, Discovery Hall 1070
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Our IFSA member, Laavanya Rachakonda of the Department of Computer Science, received an NCInnovation Pipeline Grants for her project "TerraSense: An Integrated AI Framework for Non-Invasive Plant Nutrient and Soil Assessment." TerraSense is designed to non-invasively diagnose plant nutrient status, assess overall plant and soil health and predict yield potential using exclusively image data. Congratualtion Laavanya!

Our IFSA member, Lani Akande, publishes "The 'Inside-Out' Realist Cinema in Nigeria: A New Tradition of Publicizing the Hidden’ in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

We congratulate Lani Akande of Film Studies for his article "The 'Inside-Out' Realist Cinema in Nigeria: A New Tradition of Publicizing the Hidden" in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. In the article, he theorizes a post‑2010 Nigerian film tradition that drags out private, hidden, or “backstage” realities like economic struggle, social embarrassment, industry precarity, and makes them public through narrative, cinematic and aesthetic composition. Instead of escapism or glamour, the camera foregrounds everyday life as it is lived, while erasing the barrier between the private and the public.