UWF alumna April Montgomery will be the first to tell you that majoring in photography is not easy. Jobs are competitive, and everyone thinks they can be a photographer. But with the education she received at UWF and encouragement from faculty, Montgomery succeeded and is now telling her story through film. She graduated in 1993 […]
UWF team developed NFA curriculum for STEM education The National Flight Academy hosts its grand opening Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Naval Air Station Pensacola, and the University of West Florida (UWF) will be well represented at the gathering. UWF led the curriculum development for the facility, located at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. […]
The Pensacola News Journal reported on Monday, May 7 that after 67 years, a Pensacola police officer who died in the line of duty will be recognized on the Department’s memorial for fallen officers. The article reports that the discovery was made by granddaughter Cindy Cherry after doing research in the archives at the University […]
Acclaimed political satirist and author of six best-selling books, PJ O’Rourke spoke for both the undergraduate and graduate University of West Florida (UWF) Commencement ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., May 5, at the Pensacola Civic Center. O’Rourke also received an honorary doctorate degree, the Doctor of Humane Letters, for his many cultural contributions […]
University of West Florida (UWF) student Mitra Vashi won a national Polymer Excellence Award for Undergraduate Research at the spring 2012 National American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, Calif. Vashi was presenting the results of the research team lead by Tim Royappa, professor in the Department of Chemistry. “I had the […]
The armed forces will gain 19 new second lieutenants and University of West Florida college graduates on Friday, May 4. Eight current Air Force ROTC senior cadets will commission into the U.S. Air Force, and 11 current Army ROTC senior cadets will commission into the U.S. Army. ROTC is a program that provides the tools […]
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida Department of Intercollegiate Athletics welcomed its new women’s basketball head coach Stephanie Lawrence Yelton in a press conference on Wednesday morning. Fans, alumni, media and other supporters gathered in the Argonaut Athletic Club to greet Coach Yelton and welcome her to the Argonaut family. View the full […]
Community members and university students, faculty and staff were invited to tour student research at the 2012 Student Scholars Symposium April 26 in the UWF Field House. This is the second year of the symposium, which replaced SEASTARS, or Scholars of Engineering, Applied Sciences & Technology Annual Research Symposium, last year. In the past, SEASTARS […]
UWF staff and students won multiple awards and earned scholarships for education at the Florida Public Relations Association Pensacola chapter Image Awards on Thursday, April 26. The awards demonstrate the best examples of public relations planning, design and innovation and are judged on sound research and evaluation of results. The redesigned UWF online newsroom earned […]
Students studying environmental science at the University of West Florida (UWF) are embarking on an educational journey to California to witness how their education affects the real world. Travelling from May 3 to 15, they will be exploring the home of one of the largest farms in the world, thousands of windmills and extensive irrigation. […]
Two years have passed since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, and researchers at the University of West Florida’s Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation (CEDB) are confident that Florida’s Gulf Coast escaped the spill relatively unscathed. “Other states closer to the oil rig site faced far more damage from the effects of […]
Most people are familiar with the need for a plan in the event of a weather emergency. But what happens to sensitive archives and rare artifacts when severe weather or natural disasters strike? John C. Pace Library Archivist Dean DeBolt at the University of West Florida has been approved as a mentor in the Connecting […]
