Programs will train Northwest Florida residents for high-skill jobs. PENSACOLA, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $3.9 million grant to the University of West Florida and Chipola College to provide education, training and job placement assistance to meet the demand for high-skill workers in Northwest Florida. The funding comes as part of […]
The University of West Florida signed an agreement on Feb. 15 to exchange students, collaborate on research projects and promote cultural and academic programs with Sichuan International Studies University (SISU), located in Chongqing, China. UWF and SISU have agreed to an array of student exchange programs, including semester, full-year and special short-term courses of study […]
An article authored by Professor Wade Jeffrey , Latitudinal gradients in degradation of marine dissolved organic carbon. (PLoS One 2011), has been selected and evaluated by Robie Macdonald, a Member of the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), placing his work in the F1000 library of the top 2 percent of published articles in biology and medicine. […]
Through a unique internship experience, UWF junior Joshua Brown had the opportunity to be a part of an HIV research team at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Brown has been working with Dr. Mike Summers, professor at UMBC, and has proposed four compounds that may potentially inhibit HIV. Brown attended the Summer Biomedical Training […]
By Susan Feathers, Research and Sponsored Programs Robert Rotunda is a licensed psychologist and an associate professor in the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (SPBS) at the University of West Florida, where he teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses and is the coordinator of the Master’s Degree program in Counseling Psychology. […]
Kathleen Heubach, director of the Institute for Innovative Community Learning in the University of West Florida’s College of Professional Studies and a faculty member in the School of Education, is an active member in the community, teaching tomorrow’s educators, performing academic research and participating in community service. Her expertise is literacy in schools and transforming […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $598,354, five-year grant to a team of faculty researchers at the University of West Florida (UWF) who will investigate ways to support women faculty in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. The core of the program focuses on providing a supportive and inclusive environment conducive to the […]
By Lauren Haggett, University Communications More than 150 University of West Florida students participated in the first-ever Student Scholars Symposium April 21 to showcase their hard work and give the public a chance to see it as well. The symposium replaced SEASTARS, or Scholars of Engineering, Applied Sciences & Technology Annual Research Symposium, this year. […]
The University of West Florida (UWF) launched the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) this fall, giving undergraduate students the opportunity to apply for grant funding to conduct research projects outside the classroom. These research projects and other activities give students the opportunity to develop critical thinking, logic and reasoning skills that may not be developed […]
Hiding under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico’s waters are numerous fragile historic shipwrecks left behind by the Pensacola area’s previous inhabitants, some hundreds of years ago. The University of West Florida and the state of Florida have identified 50 underwater sites. UWF archaeologists have investigated about 18 of those, with the most noteworthy […]
One day each week, Dane Smith, a University of West Florida graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in environmental science, loads up and heads south for the beach. But his truck isn’t carrying a surfboard: It’s filled with bottles, beakers and scientific equipment he’ll use this summer while collecting water samples from the Gulf of […]
The month of June began with crews toiling away in the Gulf of Mexico to stop the oil spill and U.S. scientists predicting an active hurricane season for 2010. While hurricane season is typically greeted with moderate levels of anxiety by residents along the Gulf Coast, this year the oil spill, with its ever-changing size […]
