UWF professor to present on the role of humor and happiness in health care at upcoming Experience UWF Downtown lecture series

Dr. Athena du Pré, communications professor at the University of West Florida, will present a lecture on the role of humor and happiness in health care on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce, located at 201 East Zaragoza St. in downtown Pensacola. Du Pré’s lecture, titled […]

UWF Rite of Passage Series to feature Drs. Diane Scott and Susan Jans-Thomas

The University of West Florida will honor Drs. Diane Scott and Susan Jans-Thomas at the UWF Rite of Passage Lecture Series event on Friday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. at the Argonaut Athletic Club. UWF Rite of Passage is a distinguished lecture series celebrating UWF faculty who were recently promoted to full professor. The series gives professors […]

Military outreach reinforced during Military Awareness Month

More than 23 percent of University of West Florida students – about 2,800 people – are active duty military, veteran students or their dependents. Military Awareness Month simply reinforces the efforts made at UWF to meet the needs of this unique student population. “It’s our goal here to help military and veteran students with a […]

National Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the University of West Florida hosts Take Back the Night on Wednesday, April 4 at 5:30 p.m. Take Back the Night is an international event hosted to educate, protest and bring awareness to ending sexual violence toward women. The 2012 event begins with a march from Martin […]

Rob Rotunda, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences

By Susan Feathers, Research and Sponsored Programs Robert Rotunda is a licensed psychologist and an associate professor in the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (SPBS) at the University of West Florida, where he teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses and is the coordinator of the Master’s Degree program in Counseling Psychology. […]

Kathleen Heubach, Education

Kathleen Heubach, director of the Institute for Innovative Community Learning in the University of West Florida’s College of Professional Studies and a faculty member in the School of Education, is an active member in the community, teaching tomorrow’s educators, performing academic research and participating in community service. Her expertise is literacy in schools and transforming […]