Hundreds of students, young professionals and executives packed the University of West Florida Conference Center and Auditorium on Friday, March 1, to hear and learn from prominent female leaders at the 2019 Women in Leadership Conference. The annual event, hosted by the College of Business Executive Mentor Program, got its start in 2014 and this […]
UWF students are taking steps to create awareness and solutions for registered voter impersonation and misrepresentation, and their proposed solutions are receiving statewide recognition. Through a sponsorship from the UWF College of Business’s Center for Entrepreneurship, junior mechanical engineering major, Samantha Brown, and senior computer science major, Christian Um Kaman recently participated in the 2019 […]
WHAT: UWF President Martha Saunders and PSC President Ed Meadows will sign and announce details of an expanded PSC2UWF partnership agreement, which provides students a seamless, simple transfer from PSC to UWF to attain a bachelor’s degree. The redesigned agreement also includes a reverse transfer option for PSC and will provide additional benefits for students […]
Cutting-edge research on Alzheimer’s disease is uncovering new information on the early detection and treatment of patients with the disorder, and it’s taking place at the University of West Florida. Three UWF Usha Kundu, MD College of Health faculty members are at the forefront of finding new methods to combat Alzheimer’s disease through their careful […]
WHAT: The University of West Florida College of Business Executive Mentor Program will host its annual Women in Leadership Conference during Women’s History Month in March. The popular conference, which sold out in record time this year, will draw hundreds of attendees to UWF’s Pensacola campus. The conference is the only one of its kind in the area and […]
The University of West Florida Department of Music will present pianist Dr. Ivo Kaltchev as part of the Music Hall Artist Series. The event will be held on Monday, Mar. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola campus. A prizewinner of international piano competitions […]
The University of West Florida announces a gift from AT&T to enhance its Center for Cybersecurity Ambassadors Program. AT&T presented the gift at a check ceremony on Friday, Feb. 15, at the Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering Building. The Center for Cybersecurity Ambassadors Program debuted in January 2018. In their role as ambassadors, […]
The University of West Florida’s Office of Economic Development and Engagement has entered into an agreement to provide expanded economic data analysis for Santa Rosa County. As part of the agreement, a researcher with the Haas Center, a research and consulting arm of UWF, will work on a weekly basis in the Santa Rosa County […]
The University of West Florida Innovation Institute’s Gulf Stories is a series of video-based, online courses that are free and open to anybody. They explore UWF’s deep connection to research in the Gulf of Mexico. “The idea behind the Gulf Stories has always been to showcase the deep connection UWF has now and has always […]
The initial impetus to create an institute supporting multidisciplinary studies at UWF began in 2015 with a recommendation from UWF’s Task Force on Research and Scholarship. Two years later, that vision became a reality through a donation of $550,000 from Pensacola attorney Fred Levin, who requested the institute be named after his former law partner […]
Dr. Alexis Janosik has used the science of environmental DNA to find the extremely rare Alabama sturgeon and to provide evidence that invasive lionfish have moved into the mouths of local river systems. With her latest research, Janosik, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of West Florida, is using environmental […]
The University of West Florida is conducting clinical trials to evaluate if investigational medications can reduce the symptoms of agitation caused by Alzheimer’s disease. “If these were to come to market, they would be the first drugs approved to treat agitation associated with Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Rodney Guttmann, a biology professor at UWF who […]
