Dr. Lisa Waidner, assistant professor, Dr. Jane Caffrey, professor, and Dr. Wade Jeffrey, professor, are heading up a large-scale survey of Escambia County waters in a partnership between the UWF Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation and Escambia County. The professors and a team of UWF students began sampling water from 44 sites on Feb. […]
Dr. David Ramsey, associate professor in the Reuben O’D. Askew Department of Government, and Dr. Kelly Carr, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, are working with the Massachusetts Historical Society to collect, organize and edit the letters. The letters will be available to the public through a website that will go into beta in […]
Dr. Scott Taylor, assistant professor in the University of West Florida Department of Biology, has secured a $400,000 grant from the National Eye Institute to study how zebrafish regenerate photoreceptor cells in their eyes after they’ve been damaged. The research will focus on using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR, genome-editing techniques to explore […]
Dr. Katherine Miller Wolf, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of West Florida, is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant. Miller Wolf will teach students from the National Autonomous University of Honduras at an archaeological site in Copan, Honduras from May to December 2020. “I am truly honored to be a […]
Researchers at the University of West Florida and the University of Florida will collaborate on a project that supplies new estuary programs throughout Northwest Florida with data. Dr. Jane Caffrey, professor in the UWF Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, and Dr. Matthew Deitch, assistant professor at the UF-IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center […]
A trio of students at the University of West Florida are developing a new camera-based system to help canine handlers in the military monitor and coordinate with their dogs. The idea sprang from the students’ experience in Hacking for Defense, a UWF summer course in which students work in teams directly with agencies and companies […]
University of West Florida professor Brian Elzweig didn’t set out to study tattoos. Elzweig, assistant professor in the UWF Department of Accounting and Finance, had previously written about how prospective employees’ social media profiles affected companies’ hiring policies. His interest in body modification and the workplace began because his much younger brother-in-law, who knew of […]
Julianna O’Bar said she got to experience a “sampler plate” of research while taking part in a five-week course in which she and other college students were able to travel across Florida to study water quality issues. “I’m getting to see a lot of different ecosystems in Florida,” said O’Bar, a senior majoring in marine […]
The research of almost 900 students spanning five academic colleges was on display April 18 at the annual the University of West Florida Student Scholars Symposium and Faculty Research Showcase at UWF’s Pensacola Campus. The symposium, which was organized by the Office of Undergraduate Research, was held at the University Commons Conference Center, the Center […]
The Research Triad Program is the brainchild of Dr. Carla Thompson, the director of the UWF Community Outreach Research and Learning Center.
The course, Gulf Coast Business Issues: Lionfish Markets, will be taught by Dr. Bill Huth and Dr. Felicia Morgan in the College of Business.
Thomas Asmuth used a “photo dolly” to take bursts of underwater photographs at various distances from a solid backdrop to measure water turbidity.
