The University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering celebrated the grand opening of the Laboratory Sciences Annex, a state-of-the-art facility that provides additional space for wet teaching labs and offices for faculty and staff. “As UWF grows and improves, we are grateful to add facilities that match the caliber of our students […]
The University of West Florida has been renewed by the National Institutes of Health to support the Maximizing Access to Research Careers, or MARC Scholars Program. With an anticipated five-year budget of $1.44 million, the MARC Scholars Program was funded for eight scholars per year. The first five-year grant was awarded in 2014 and totaled […]
The University of West Florida robotics team finished second place in the annual IEEE SoutheastCon hardware competition, held April 19-22 in Tampa, Florida. The team’s autonomous robot was only seconds slower than that of the winning team from University of Alabama. UWF beat every team in the Florida State University System that competed, including the […]
The UWF Hal Marcus of College of Science and Engineering continues its 2018 Great Minds Distinguished Lecture Series with a presentation from James Rea on March 8. Rea, a communication instructor at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science in Stony Brook, New York, will present “Science Matters: On the Importance of Communicating Science to […]
Beginning in February 2017, the University of West Florida will explore the integration of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics to determine how those fields can influence the preservation of a clean environment through a new public program, STEAM2017. STEAM2017 is a five-week program which will include art exhibitions, lectures, artist-led workshops for students of […]
The University of West Florida archaeology program announced today the discovery of a third shipwreck from the Spanish fleet linked to Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 16th century expedition to modern-day Pensacola. The discovery comes less than one year after UWF archaeologists identified the terrestrial site of Luna’s colony in a developed neighborhood in Pensacola, marking […]
Student Allison Lehr created the beer in the “The Art and Science of Brewing” class, which is a very popular class among honors students.
Students in the University of West Florida College of Health now have the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the human body through the use of synthetic cadavers. The cadavers are part of the newly developed Applied Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory, housed within the Department of Exercise Science and Community Health. The state-of-the-art lab […]
The University of West Florida Department of Computer Science will host CodeFest on April 1-3, 2016, in the College of Science and Engineering, Building 4, on the Pensacola Campus. CodeFest is a weekend-long event where programmers, project managers, graphic designers and others within the software development industry collaborate with students to develop a consumer product. […]
Five University of West Florida graduating engineering students have been accepted to the highly selective United States Air Force S&E Palace Acquire Program, established to heighten the Air Force’s ability to maintain the leading edge in today’s technology-intensive environment by hiring dynamic, creative and innovative scientists and engineers. UWF students Josue DeJesus, Lee Fulton, William […]
The University of West Florida Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will host students from nine Pensacola-area high schools for a science symposium on April 14, 2016. The End of Year High School Science Symposium will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UWF Conference Center. Approximately 100 students representing high school […]
The University of West Florida and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition will host world-renowned organic and organometallic chemist professor Dr. John Hartwig on Feb. 23, 2016, for two lectures as part of the William D. Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry. The opening lecture, “New Modes for Functionalization of Organic Molecules” will be […]
