The University of West Florida Recreation and Sports Services will host the 38th annual NIRSA National Flag Football Championships from Jan. 5 to 7, 2018 at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex at 10370 Ashton Brosnaham Drive. Registration is currently open for open teams until Wednesday, Jan. 3. Teams registered for the open division will play on […]
Two students from the University of West Florida Department of Biology won awards for research poster presentations for their respective categories at the 2017 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. The annual national conference, which is coordinated by the UWF Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering student engagement team, gathers more than 4,000 […]
Two professors in the University of West Florida College of Business were recently awarded “Best Paper” for their respective research by the Society for Marketing Advances. Dr. James Mead and Dr. Katrina Savitskie, assistant professors in the University’s Department of Marketing, Supply Chain Logistics, and Economics, were recognized during the Society for Marketing Advances annual […]
The University of West Florida Historic Trust announces its Pensacola Children’s Museum will host a Pay It Forward program this holiday season. The program is a free, family-friendly event over a series of days. Museum staff encourage the public to visit the museum to make crafts and cards of encouragement for children affected by Hurricanes […]
The University of West Florida Innovation Institute will host an evening with acclaimed actor Robert Picardo. Picardo is best known for playing the Doctor on “Star Trek: Voyager” from 1995 to 2001. The event, organized in cooperation with Pensacon, an annual pop culture convention in downtown Pensacola, will take place on Feb. 22, 2018 from […]
The University of West Florida Recreation and Sports Services will host an Aquatic Expo and Open House from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17. The event is free and open to the public, and members of the community will be able to participate in open swim hours and an inflatable obstacle course. Aquatic […]
Faculty and students from the University of West Florida College of Business participated in the third annual EntreCon, held in November in downtown Pensacola. This year’s conference focused on “Entrepreneurship and Continued Learning,” providing tactical business advice for business growth and leadership success. Fifteen UWF faculty members and nine students joined more than 450 entrepreneurs, […]
The University of West Florida College of Business Executive Mentor Program will host its annual Women in Leadership conference on Friday, March 9, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with check-in from 8 to 9 a.m., in the UWF Conference Center and Auditorium, Building 22. Registration will open on Jan. 8, 2018. The conference […]
The Pensacola Museum of Art is hosting the pop-up exhibition “Feminist Iconography” which is on view now through Dec. 11 in the main stairwell and education hallway of the museum. The exhibition will present an interdisciplinary panel of UWF faculty at its reception on Dec. 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. The panel will include […]
A $278,880 National Science Foundation grant awarded to three University of West Florida professors will provide research experiences to help acclimate transfer students and enhance undergraduate research in the Department of Biology. The grant was awarded to Dr. Peter Cavnar, assistant professor of biology, Dr. Hui-Min Chung, associate professor in the Department of Biology, and […]
The University of West Florida Speech and Debate team hosted the annual Marks Invitational Speech Tournament Nov. 3-5, drawing in eight regional colleges and universities. Students from across the country have competed in speech and debate events at UWF for more than 40 years. Nearly 50 competitors participated in the tournament, delivering a total of […]
A team of University of West Florida students recently placed third in the annual Southeast Association for Computing Machine Regional Programming contest’s division II category, hosted by the UWF Department of Computer Science. The contest was held Nov. 11, simultaneously at four regional universities including the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina; Kennesaw State University, […]
