Engage Children to Prevent Summer Learning Loss
Without the bell-to-bell school schedule, days fill up with fun and leisure for students on vacation.
May 26, 2016
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UWF Students Play Important Role in BioBlitz
Students were among those leading teams of citizen scientists that surveyed plants and animals at the first Gulf Islands BioBlitz and Biodiversity Festival.
May 25, 2016
Leadership Workshop Helps Educators Develop Skills
The workshop was designed to help participants evaluate leadership skills. About 55 people from the district attended the sessions, which were from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on three Saturdays during April.
May 25, 2016
More Foster Children Being Placed in Homes with Better Resources
There is a growing body of cross-disciplinary research in fields such as education, sociology and child development studying two primary obstacles affecting the achievement of children living in low socioeconomic households.
May 24, 2016
Dr. Phillip Schmutz Studies Beach, Coastal Changes
Schmutz studies geomorphology, and he and his students survey the beach and dune systems to measure how they change over time.
May 23, 2016
Economic Report: Tourism on Pace to Set Records in 2016
In this week’s Economic Report on WUWF 88.1-FM, Dr. Rick Harper, vice president of research and economic opportunity at the University of West Florida, discusses how Gulf Coast tourism is shaping up in 2016.
May 20, 2016
UWF Professors Contribute to Study of Genetic Diversity Within Coral Reefs
A recently published study shows that areas of coral reef undisturbed by human activity or climate change tend to contain the most genetic diversity, providing important insight into the best ways to monitor and preserve coral reef biodiversity.
May 18, 2016
Santa Rosa Mentoring Program a ‘Win-Win’
Three second-grade students sit around a table shaped like a semicircle. They read “Rumplestiltskin” aloud. Two whisper, and one uses a normal tone of voice.
May 17, 2016
UWF Professor Using DNA Testing to Look for Rare Sturgeon
Trying to find an Alabama sturgeon has been akin to searching for the proverbial “needle in a haystack,” according to Dr. Alexis Janosik, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of West Florida.
May 10, 2016
Lecture Series Explores Data Analytics
The University of West Florida Department of Government recently presented “Data Dialogues,” a spring series of lectures focusing on data visualization and analysis in research across disciplines.
May 05, 2016
UWF Grad Student Searches for Lost Huguenot Settlement
While stories fill history books about immigrants who came to Colonial America and thrived, not as much is known about those who didn’t succeed.
May 04, 2016
Next Exit History App Gets Visual Upgrade
History can’t be changed. But, Next Exit History, an app that catalogs important moments in time around the world is changing for the better through a new upgrade.
May 04, 2016
