Independent NewsPosts Tagged ‘UWF’
Archaeology, You Dig?
There’s lots of reasons to dig archaeology. The month of March is Florida Archaeology Month and its full of opportunities to immerse oneself in history. Here’s a press release from UWF’s Florida Public Archaeology Network, with a list of free events scheduled throughout the month of [...]
UWF forms Doctor of Physical Therapy Partnership Program with USF
Press Release: The University of West Florida (UWF) and the University of South Florida (USF) will be able to move forward to create a pilot program offering a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree in Pensacola. The partnership program was approved last week by the Florida Board of Governors, [...]
AT&T gives $50K to UWF BEST Robotics Hub
Press Release: Continuing its dedication to the University of West Florida and BEST Robotics, AT&T presented a $50,000 contribution to support the Emerald Coast BEST Robotics hub at the University of West Florida today at the School of Science and Engineering. The program hosts an annual robotics [...]
UWF Lecture Series
The University of West Florida’s Downtown Lecture series will begin this week with a presentation from the school’s president. President Judy Bense—who is also an archeologist—will speak Wednesday evening at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition downtown. Her lecture is entitled [...]
State of UWF Address
The University of West Florida will host the 2012 State of the University Address tomorrow morning. In a press release, the address is descried as pertaining to “significant campus goals” and “the new Strategic Plan 2012-2017.” The address will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the [...]
No More Nooses
University of West Florida President Judy Bense took time on Wednesday at a scheduled student forum to address the hate crimes on the campus, specifically the two nooses found over the past week. “I’m not a happy camper,” Bense told the crowd of about 100 students, faculty and community [...]
Pensacola Pledge: Good News for a Monday Morning
Giving students in Pensacola high schools a greater chance of achieving higher education, Quint and Rishy Studer have partnered with the University of West Florida to present the Pensacola Pledge Scholars program. Recipients of the scholarship will receive $2,000 per academic year to attend UWF and [...]
How did Marty & Charlie try to defeat the park in 2006?
While working on another a project, I came across the mailer that Marty Donovan, Charlie Fairchild and Save Our City mailed out before the 2006 referendum - See it here. Their misrepresentations of the facts failed to defeat the Maritime Park. In 2006 - they overstated how much the city was [...]
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to defeat the project. I actually interviewed Fairchild in July 2005 about the project ("Save Our City," [...]
Affiliated Baseball Parks – Single A
The naysayers like to make a big deal out of the Pensacola Pelicans aren't an affiliated team. Of course they can't be playing in the tiny UWF ball park, that is even substandard for a college ball field. The most-likely affiliated league for Pensacola would be South Atlantic. Here are their [...]
If Marty and Jack didn’t like the stadium…
The right to petition a Pensacola City Council decision is not one that should be taken lightly. If the citizens have voiced their concerns in the hearings involving a decisions, participated in the process and the council votes against their wishes, then a petition is the only course. That isn't [...]
Donovan/Nobles PAC is formed
It's Park Yes Stadium No. And here is the website: http://www.parkyesstadiumno.com/ City Attorney Rusty Wells, according to PNJ reporter Jamie Page, has determined the former city councilmen Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles have until August 20 to turn in their petition signatures. The petition [...]