University of West Florida undergraduate students are working as teams to come up with solutions to problems critical to national security as part of an eight-week pilot course that launched June 18. The class, Hacking for Defense, or H4D, originated at Stanford University in 2016. UWF is the first institution in the state of Florida […]
University of West Florida biology professor, Dr. Alexis Janosik is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to take an inventory of reef fish communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Janosik received a $40,000 grant from NOAA and Red Snapper Congressional Supplemental Appropriations to evaluate fish species near reefs in the Gulf using the […]
Derek Brauneis had little automotive experience before he helped design and build the first off-road race car that will represent the University of West Florida at an international competition held in Pittsburg, Kansas, May 17-20. “As far as working on cars, I haven’t done anything other than change my oil or inflate my tires,” said […]
On the heels of a cyberattack that grounded city services in Atlanta, employees entrusted with protecting their agencies trained on how to thwart attacks during two courses at the University of West Florida. The UWF Center for Cybersecurity partnered with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services to host […]
The University of West Florida invites the public to explore and survey science at its BioBlitz on Saturday, April 7 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. A BioBlitz is an all-day event where research professionals, naturalists, hobbyists and volunteers work together to survey and log as many species as possible in a designated study area. […]
The R/V W.T. Hogarth, a state-of-the-art, 78-foot research vessel, has docked for the first time in the Port of Pensacola. UWF is hosting the vessel’s visit. UWF students and faculty have access to the R/V W.T. Hogarth, as both a floating classroom for marine research opportunities and a platform for grant-funded research. Students in the […]
Two University of West Florida Cyber Club teams finished first and second in the 2018 CyberThon Capture the Flag Cybersecurity Challenge on March 11 at the Gulf Power Company Douglas L. McCrary Training Center. CyberThon is a community event sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association designed to provide hands-on experience in cyber […]
The UWF Hal Marcus of College of Science and Engineering continues its 2018 Great Minds Distinguished Lecture Series with a presentation from James Rea on March 8. Rea, a communication instructor at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science in Stony Brook, New York, will present “Science Matters: On the Importance of Communicating Science to […]
The University of West Florida Department of Chemistry and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition will host Dr. Richard D. McCullough for two lectures Feb. 8-9 as part of the William D. Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry. The first lecture, “A Look at Future Technologies That Will Change Your Life: Bendable Televisions and Cell Phones, […]
The University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering will launch its 2018 Great Minds Distinguished Lecture Series on Jan. 18 with Dr. Nathan Lewis of California Institute of Technology presenting a public lecture, “Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?” with a reception at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture […]
The University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering broke ground today on a Laboratory Sciences Annex, which will be connected to the Life Sciences Laboratory on the Pensacola campus to provide additional space for classroom and wet research lab needs. “The University of West Florida is very grateful for the support […]
The University of West Florida is celebrating the success of the 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign, which raised more than $64.4 million by almost 20,000 donors, including 55 planned gifts and nearly $18 million in scholarships. “We are truly grateful for the generosity of the community we serve, the alumni we have graduated and the friends […]
