The University of West Florida Historic Trust will share Victorian holiday traditions in Historic Pensacola during the holiday season with a special tour of the Lear-Rocheblave House from Nov. 17 through Dec. 19. Visitors will experience the historic home decorated with holiday cheer and learn how families celebrated the holiday season in the late 19th […]
The University of West Florida Eta Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, a coed business fraternity, attended the organization’s 50th biennial Grand Chapter Congress this August in Chicago. Eta Upsilon received awards in three separate categories for their achievements within the community. Delta Sigma Pi is a professional, business fraternity for men and women with […]
The University of West Florida College of Science and Engineering hosted the eighth annual Emerald Coast BEST robotics competition at the UWF Field House on Saturday. Student teams from 18 area high schools and middle schools participated in “Pay Dirt,” a competition in which each team designed and built a robotic system to repair a […]
The University of West Florida’s Counseling and Psychological Services will host “Cracked, Not Broken – The Kevin Hines Story” on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. in the University Commons Auditorium, Building 22, on the Pensacola Campus. The event features keynote speaker Kevin Hines, who will talk about what it means to live mentally well. […]
The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host “Apron Strings: Ties to the Past,” from Nov. 10, 2015 through Jan. 8, 2016, at the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum. The exhibit reevaluates the apron’s varying roles over time in an artistic and cultural manner and chronicles changing attitudes toward women and domestic work […]
The University of West Florida saw enormous public response to its first massively open online course, as more than 3,400 students enrolled in the free, six-week “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems” web-based course in May 2015. “The fantastic reception by the public from around the world certainly exceeded our expectations,” said Dr. Matthew Schwartz, chair […]
WHAT: The 2015 Emerald Coast BEST robotics competition will be held at the University of West Florida Field House on Saturday, Nov. 7. BEST encourages high school and middle school students to engage in science, technology, engineering and mathematics career fields through their participation in the science and engineering-based competition. The 2015 competition is named […]
The University of West Florida is partnering with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation to host “Venture In Northwest Florida: Connecting Veterans, Women and Minorities with Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High-Tech.” The seminar will take place on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the UWF Conference Center, located on […]
The University of West Florida will honor Drs. Matthew Crow and Melanie Sutton in the first session of the 2015-16 Rite of Passage lecture series on Friday, Nov. 6 in the Argonaut Athletic Club at 2 p.m. The Rite of Passage lecture series celebrates UWF faculty who were recently promoted to full professor. The series […]
The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host the traveling exhibit “Just Above Water: Florida Folk Art” as part of Pensacola’s annual Foo Foo Festival. The traveling exhibit, funded by a Foo Foo Festival ACE Fall Arts and Culture Grant, will open Nov. 5, 2015 and close Jan. 25, 2016. The traveling exhibit features […]
The Experience UWF Downtown Lecture Series is back for another year, and the first date of the 2015-16 series is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 16 when University of Florida professor Roy Hunt presents his lecture, “A Tale of Two Cities: Historic Preservation in Pensacola and St. Augustine.” The free event will start with a reception […]
The University of West Florida Historic Trust unveiled its interpretive master plan to the public on Tuesday during an event at the Museum of Commerce in Downtown Pensacola. UWF President Judith Bense, Vice President of University Advancement Brendan Kelly and Historic Trust Board of Directors Chair Jerry Maygarden presented the transformational vision for Historic Pensacola. […]
