Three students from the University of West Florida Department of Chemistry were recently selected to join the National American Chemical Society Scholars Program. A total of 12 UWF students have been named ACS Scholars since 2013, receiving more than $100,000 in renewable scholarship funds. “The success of UWF students in the ACS Scholars program is […]
U.S. housing starts jumped 2.1 percent in July, far exceeding projections. In this week’s “Economic Report,” Dr. Rick Harper talks about what the most recent housing numbers mean for the gross domestic product outlook.
Green, who graduated from UWF in 2014, has been in Florence, Italy, studying drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art.
In a new column, Haas Center Assistant Director Amy Newburn discusses the degree programs in higher education that are most likely to help graduates quickly land high-paying jobs. Her article can be accessed through the UWF Center for Research and Economic Opportunity website.
Each of the top 25 degree programs at the University of West Florida is ranked by its graduates’ annualized wages and the percent of them employed full time within the state.
The Alabama sturgeon is critically endangered, so much so that some believed the species had become extinct.
The monthly job report from the U.S. Department of Labor exceeded expectations, with 255,000 new jobs added on estimates of just 180,000 expected.
WHAT: Media are invited to join President Judith Bense and University officials as they welcome new students to the University of West Florida on Friday, Aug. 19. University administrators, including Bense, will be visiting the residence halls, beginning at 8 a.m., while students move in. Volunteers from athletic teams, fraternities and sororities, student organizations and faculty […]
The Haas Center at the University of West Florida has hired three economists – Dr. Kalyan “Kal” Chakraborty, John Hartman and Dr. Aigbokhai “Aig” Unuigbe – to bolster its continuing research efforts. “The team of economists will enhance the existing services and should open up several new research opportunities for the Haas Center,” said Zach […]
The CEDB is participating in two research consortia financially supported by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, which was funded following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
By Richard Conn, UWF Center for Research and Economic Opportunity Dr. Wade Jeffrey is a professor in the University of West Florida Department of Biology and has served as director of the University’s Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation (CEDB) since June 2015. He has been with the center since 1991. The CEDB is participating […]
The selected students spent 250 hours or more working on a research project in their program of study and under close supervision of a faculty mentor.
