Jerry Patterson creates kinetic sculptural installations using wood, metal, glass and copper. The 63-year-old, who will graduate after completing one more class, is a retired Navy master chief.
UWF assistant professor Dr. Sara Evans has been appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to the Florida Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers, a statewide agency that assists and advises the Early Steps program. Early Steps serves families of infants and toddlers who have developmental delays by providing individualized family support plans. Early intervention helps […]
Skeletal and muscular injuries are the most common type of injuries and traditionally get the most attention when it comes to prevention.
Dr. Rick Harper discusses recent changes to federal rules governing overtime pay.
Without the bell-to-bell school schedule, days fill up with fun and leisure for students on vacation.
This spring, University of West Florida legal studies students had their day in court. The trip was a long time coming, according to Dr. Kimberly McCorkle, chair of the UWF Department of Legal Studies, Public Administration and Sport Management. Plans came together when oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court coincided with UWF’s spring break. […]
In a new column, Zach Jenkins, director of the Haas Center at the University of West Florida, discusses trends in the foster care system, including that in recent years, more children have been placed in middle- and upper-income homes. His article can be accessed through the UWF Center for Research and Economic Opportunity website. […]
Students were among those leading teams of citizen scientists that surveyed plants and animals at the first Gulf Islands BioBlitz and Biodiversity Festival.
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.
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.
The Florida Student Association, a board made up of the 12 Student Body Presidents from Florida’s state universities, met on Saturday, May 21, 2016 to elect a chair for the 2016-2017 academic year. President Jacob Hebert from University of West Florida and President Thieldens Elneus from Florida Gulf Coast University were both nominated and made […]
The University of West Florida Department of Physics celebrated two major accomplishments at the end of the 2015-16 academic year. Seven UWF students traveled to present at the American Physical Society’s March Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, and one student came home with an award from the national organization. The department also earned a distinction from […]
