The University of West Florida will honor Jim Jipson as part of the UWF Rite of Passage lecture series on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 at 2 p.m. at the UWF Art Gallery. The Rite of Passage lecture series celebrates University faculty recently promoted to full professor. The series gives professors the opportunity to share life […]
The University of West Florida celebrated a $18,867 donation to the Larry Butler Memorial Music Award on Thursday, Jan. 28 at the UWF Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The new funds are a result of ticket sales and donations from the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame show as part of the Frank Brown International […]
The Blackwater River is teeming with historical treasures, many of them vestiges of the area’s once booming lumber industries. Take for instance a 4.1-mile stretch that University of West Florida graduate student Ben Wells has exhaustively surveyed. Although only a relatively small sliver of the 58-mile waterway, it is dotted with 13 to 15 different […]
The Experience UWF Downtown 2015-16 Lecture Series continues with its second installment on Feb. 11, 2016. Dr. Wes Jamison will present his lecture, “Food Fight! Pink Slime and the Passionate Politics of Food,” at the Museum of Commerce on 201 E. Zarragossa St. in downtown Pensacola. The series is free and open to the public, […]
The UWF Department of Music will present its 10th Annual All-Steinway School Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Music Hall at the Center for Fine & Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola Campus. Through a generous gift from Helen Wentworth in 2006, the UWF Department […]
WHAT: The University of West Florida archaeology program will host a press conference to announce a major archaeological discovery in Pensacola. WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 TIME: 10 a.m. WHERE: T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum 330 S. Jefferson St. Pensacola, Florida MEDIA CONTACT: Matt Rowley Assistant Director of University Communications University of West Florida […]
Sebastian Junger, award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed author, will present a lecture on international reporting and the impact of war across the globe on Wednesday, March 25 at 6 p.m. The event will be held at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce, located at 201 East Zaragoza St. in downtown Pensacola. Junger’s lecture titled, “The Front Lines of […]
This summer, the emerald coast will meet the emerald isle as twelve theatre students and four art students from the University of West Florida travel to Ireland to participate in the Carlow Arts Festival and collaborate with Carlow Little Theatre as part of the University’s program, “The Irish Experience,” from May 21 through June 11. This […]
The University of West Florida will honor Drs. Barbara Larson and Michelle Williams at the UWF Rite of Passage Lecture Series event on Friday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m.at the Argonaut Athletic Club. The UWF Rite of Passage Lecture Series is a distinguished lecture series celebrating UWF faculty who were recently promoted to full professor. The […]
Dr. William Belko, associate professor at the University of West Florida, will present a lecture on the U.S. invasion of Spanish Pensacola on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Voices of Pensacola presented by Gulf Power, located at 117 East Government St. in downtown Pensacola. Belko’s lecture, titled […]
WHAT: University of West Florida and Historical Research Associates, Inc. will host a partnership celebration and grand opening of the HRA Pensacola office. As part of the event, UWF and HRA representatives will sign a licensing agreement for Next Exit History™, a mobile app developed by UWF faculty researchers that provides information about more than […]
The University of West Florida recently appointed Dr. Jocelyn Evans, professor of political science, as the first associate dean of the newly formed College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, effective Jan. 2, 2015. She previously served as chair of the UWF Department of Government. This appointment comes as part of an academic reorganization currently […]
