The University of West Florida was named a Best Southeastern College by The Princeton Review for the 11th consecutive year, based on results from the company’s 2014 Best Colleges survey. UWF was one of 138 institutions receiving the Best in Southeast designation. The company designated 643 colleges total across the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Western […]
Dr. Carla Thompson, associate professor and director of the UWF Community Outreach Research and Learning Center, recently presented at the 7th annual Athens Institute of Education and Research (ATINER) Mathematics and Statistics Research Unit Conference in Greece. Thompson’s paper, titled “Integrating Community Outreach Research and Learning (CORAL) Projects in Teaching Graduate Statistics in the Social Sciences,” […]
University of West Florida professor Dr. Muhammad H. Rashid was recently awarded the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Industry Application Society, adding to the continued success of the UWF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Recently, two student teams –advised by Rashid – placed first and second in the Myron Zucker Undergraduate Student Design […]
The University of West Florida’s Military and Veterans Resource Center (MVRC) recently awarded scholarships to eight students who are military veterans or dependents of active or retired military. The scholarships were made possible as a result of the Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Michael Ferguson Scholarship Endowment, the Buzz and Larue Ambersley Memorial Scholarship and the […]
Today, Provost Martha Saunders announced the appointment of interim deans to fill the positions recently vacated in the College of Business and College of Arts & Sciences. Effective August 8, 2013, the following individuals will serve as interim deans: College of Business: Dr. Tim O’Keefe College of Arts & Sciences: Dr. Mike Huggins “Tim and Mike are proven university leaders […]
University of West Florida students were recently given the opportunity to experience Japanese culture firsthand through the 2013 Summer Semester in Japan study abroad program. This year, four students participated in the program, which was organized by the UWF Japan Center and the Jikei Group of Colleges in Tokyo, Japan. The main purpose of the […]
The University of West Florida Foundation announces its 2013-2014 Board of Directors, with terms beginning on July 1. The new directors beginning their terms are: Gail Dorsey, accounting coordinator for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.; Kim MacQueen, co-founder of Innisfree Hotels; Sherell Wood, vice president of the UWF Student Government Association. […]
Two UWF student teams were recently selected for the first and second place prizes for the Myron Zucker Undergraduate Student Design Contest, a prestigious international competition. The annual contest is sponsored by the Industry Applications Society (IAS), a special interest society within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The awards will be presented […]
Four students on the University of West Florida Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) team placed in the Top 10 of their respective categories at the 2013 HOSA National Leadership Conference held on June 26-29 in Nashville, Tenn. The five-person team was able to compete in the national competition as a result of a Student Government Association […]
Ten University of West Florida students recently spent two weeks abroad in Scotland, where they learned about Scottish history, culture and criminal justice. Dr. John Smykla, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at UWF, spearheaded this immersive learning experience as part of his Comparative Criminal Justice summer class. From June 16–29, […]
A group of University of West Florida students recently spent two weeks in Salamanca, Spain, as part of the “UWF in Spain” study abroad program. Laura Arguea, Spanish instructor at UWF, developed the program through the Department of English and World Languages with the assistance of the International Education and Programs office. “The main purpose […]
UWF Business Enterprises, Inc. (BEI) announces Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, LLC as the Master Developer for the University Park & Northwest Village Development Project. This decision follows the RFQ and RFP processes, in which an evaluation committee participated in assessing several firms. President Judy Bense approved the committee’s recommendation. The team is comprised of several […]
