Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Chris Cavanaugh, Human Performance Technology and Community Engagement, has been accepted to participate at the Oxford Round Table and to present her research paper "Helping Overcome Poverty through Education (HOPE)" in Oxford, England in July 2008. The focus of this summer's Oxford Roundtable is on "Child Poverty: Educational Initiatives and Consequences." Cavanaugh's paper will provide an overview of public education sectors from middle school to college/university in the United States that are implementing career academies and other related pipeline educational strategies that redefine vocational education in an effort to create talent and provide a viable opportunity for at-risk children growing up in poverty.

Ali Penton, Human Resources/Information Technology Services, presented "Salary Planner - How to Set it Up" at the SunGard Summit held April 14 in Anaheim, Calif. The SunGard Summit is an annual event that brings Banner users from around the world together to learn about the features of the product and to share their experiences with each other. Penton’s presentation showed attendees how to set up the validation and rule forms that are required for implementing and using Salary Planner within Banner HR and Employee Self-Service.

Ray Uzwyshyn, University Libraries (http://library.uwf.edu), has been awarded the Emerald Publishing Group 2008 Award for Excellence for his research article titled "Multimedia Visualization and Interactive Systems: Drawing Board Possibilities and Server Realities – A Cuban Rafter Paradigm Case" published in "Library High Tech" in winter 2007. The award winning research paper was chosen by a group of eminent academics and journal editors from across a spectrum of disciplines as the academic publisher’s outstanding research paper for 2007.  It had been cited by the team as a brilliant visionary recipe - a cross-disciplinary work of both pragmatic research and new possibilities. The piece was originally written as the thematic article for a special issue of "Library High Tech" on "3D Information Visualization," edited by Brad Eden, University of California Santa Barbara. Uzwyshyn's original research  was based on pragmatic methodologies for digital library possibility and a larger online project completed with Holly Ackerman (Duke University) for the University of Miami Libraries in 2005 and can be viewed online at http://balseros.miami.edu.

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Student Accomplishments

The following UWF School of Science and Engineering students have received scholarships in their field of study. The students are listed by department and scholarship name.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

DOUGLAS SCHOLARSHIP: Tim Giertz, Frank Porcher

JOHN C. PACE JR. SCHOLARSHIP: Joel Becker, Charles Carnley, James Merfeld, Luigino Rosario, Bart Sipes, Bradley Swain

LACEY JEN SCHOLARSHIP: Sarah Martinez

MERIT BASED SCHOLARSHIP: John Carff, Joshua Dault, Tyler Montieth, Bradley Swain, Daniel Wells,

NICK JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP: Scott Hancock

PHYSICS

PALMER LOWELL EDWARDS SCHOLARSHIP: Elizabeth Knowles, Joshua Olitzky

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

JOHN C. PACE JR. SCHOLARSHIP: Nathalie Bonner, Leonie Escamilla, Marissa Foster, Amanda Fountain, June Gibson, Kami Harp, Joseph Hecht, Joshua Patrick,  Sonya Savage, Jason Snyder, Carlie Spicer, Bennett Stackhouse, Elizabeth Taylor,
Katherine Turk

LACEY JEN SCHOLARSHIP: Erika Fitzpatrick

MERIT BASED SCHOLARSHIP: Ruth Bandfield, Marissa Foster, Mallory Freund, Lindsay Mate, Afsaneh Penton, Heath Rose, Michael Rubey, Thomas St. George, Sonya Savage, Samantha Seals, Jason Snyder, Samuel Tsegays, Gregory Whitfield, Winston Zhao

ELECTRICAL COMPUTER ENGINEERING

BOEING SCHOLARSHIP: Amanda Hetrick, Rachel Knodel, Katrina Pugh, Bill Seaman

BOEING – SWE SCHOLARSHIP: Kaitlin Weeks

ECE DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP: Jason Aguayo, Jacob Whisenhunt

GULF POWER PRE-PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP: Jarod Brown, Alexander Evans, Joshua Jordan, Adam Keyhani, Kaitlin Weeks

PAUL AND MAGGIE HSU SCHOLARSHIP: Adam Keyhani, Brian Smith

STANLEY STEPHENSON SCHOLARSHIP: Amanda Hetrick

WEBB ELECTRIC SCHOLARSHIP: Johnnie Blaylock, Michael Bolen, Jonathon Garrison, Jeremy Gunn, Robert Hartwell, Joshua Martin, Brian Smith, Mark Wadsworth, Scott Walker, Gary Wise

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