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A turtle pokes his head out in Leutze Lake (Max Matthews/The Seahawk).
Lessons from UNCW’s turtles
Max Matthews, Staff Writer • October 2, 2025

After class, you decide to sit down on a bench overlooking one of UNCW’s several small ponds. This break is much needed; you’ve had a...

UNCW’s Project Please Stay chapter’s logo (Courtesy of Susannah Swindell).
Project Please Stay chapter grows at UNCW
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • October 2, 2025

Raising awareness for mental health advocacy is the mission of UNCW’s Project Please Stay, a club started in response to growing suicide rates...

Cover of Atlantis: A Creative Magazine Issue 98, Summer 2025 Staff Chapbook; Klebanow's first issue as Editor-in-Chief (Meghan Lewis/Atlantis Magazine).
Atlantis: A Creative Magazine introduces new Editor-in-Chief
Brielle Nugent, Staff Writer • September 30, 2025

At the start of the fall 2025 semester Atlantis: A Creative Magazine welcomed their new Editor-in-Chief, UNC-Wilmington senior Dalin Klebanow....

Contestants being performative males together (Max Matthews/The Seahawk).
‘Performative male’ contest held at UNCW
Max Matthews, Staff Writer • September 25, 2025

The recent online trend of “performative males” – over-the-top, female-worshipping men who engage in stereotypically feminine interests...

Banner made during recent meeting of compiled collages inspired by Swift's various "eras" (Courtesy of Kayla Brethauer).
The Swift Society returns after a cruel summer away
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • September 24, 2025

UNCW is home to over 300 clubs and organizations, but one club is making a shimmery mark on students who are fans of one of the biggest pop stars...

Promotional flyer for 48 Hour Film Competition (Courtesy of UNCW Randall Library's MakerStudio).
Be scared and prepared: UNCW Library’s 48 Hour Film Competition
Charlotte Thorne, Photography Editor • September 23, 2025

UNCW’s fourth annual 48 Hour Film Competition will soon be underway. For the past four years, Randall Library has hosted their biggest event...

Some attendees of the Patriot Day Ceremony (Deborah Williams/The Seahawk).
UNCW remembers the 9/11 attacks 24 years later
Deborah Williams, Staff Writer • September 17, 2025

24 years after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, the UNCW community gathered to remember, reflect and honor the lives lost on...

Starship robot leaving Seahawk Crossing after making a delivery (Addison Lowry/The Seahawk).
Starship robots could be UNCW’s next big thing
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • September 8, 2025

UNCW has a new food delivery system: Starship robots. These mobile robots serve as on-campus food delivery. Now — three weeks into the fall...

The Book Club founders. Left to right: Logan Knowles (President), Brielle Lancaster (Treasurer), Lydia Mielke (Vice President), Eri Mitchell (Secretary)(Courtesy Lydia Mielke).
The Book Club: UNCW’s new, rapidly growing club is looking for members
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • August 21, 2025

This fall, book lovers at UNCW will be coming together to discuss all things bookish in Morton Hall. Last semester, President Logan Knowles came...

Pep band members outside of INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas, before UNCW Mens Basketball's first March Madness Game since 2017. (Courtesy Zoe Rudolph)
CULTURE: Pep Band brings spirit to UNCW
Addison Lowry, Staff Writer • April 25, 2025

Despite being at almost every home basketball game with their instruments, the Pep Band is not a well-known organization on campus. Many may...

A group photo of all of the members who were a part of the production (Courtesy of Spoonfed Comedy).
Behind the lens: An award-winning sapphic film told by UNCW female students
Brielle Nugent, Staff Writer • April 22, 2025

It is undoubtedly known that film is a male-dominated industry. For the last 27 years, the annual “Celluloid Ceiling” test has been conducted...

Changes Are Hard, RHA is Here to Help
Changes Are Hard, RHA is Here to Help
Samantha Hill, Digital Media Marketing, Photography Editor • March 26, 2025

The content is sponsored through RHA. Moving to college can be an exciting step in life or a challenge to navigate through. UNCW had...

UNCW student Nicole Grady with a kangaroo in Australia (Courtesy: Nicole Grady).
Studying abroad amidst the LA fires and despite the Valencia flood
Deborah Williams, Staff Writer • March 12, 2025

“My history teacher would always say this,” says Tina Astorga, a UNCW sophomore, “if you want to learn something, you have to go and...

Dr. Caitlin Ryan, UNCW professor at Watson College of Education, reading "Saturday" (Deborah Williams/The Seahawk).
UNCW’s Step Show and Read-In
Deborah Williams, Staff Writer • February 28, 2025

To celebrate Black culture and remember Black history, departments throughout UNCW hosted different events such as a step show and a read-in....

Kennedy Cole returns to UNCW to talk about her book deal with Penguin Random House Publishing for her debut novel, There Used to Be People. (Megan Eesley/The Seahawk).
UNCW alumni signs six-figure two-book deal with Penguin Random House
Megan Eesley, Co-Editor-in-Chief • February 25, 2025

Kennedy Cole: UNCW alumni, author with a six-figure, two-book deal with the Penguin Random House Publishing, now with a film agent. After...