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Faculty Awards Celebration

Each year, the Office of the Provost hosts the Faculty Awards Celebration on the third Thursday of November. This event honors the outstanding achievements of our faculty from the previous academic year.


2025 Faculty Awards Celebration

When? Thursday, November 20th
Event Time? 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Where? Commons Auditorium

2025 Faculty Award Nominations Now Open

The Office of the Provost is accepting nominations for the following awards May 30, 2025 through September 3, 2025:

There is no limit to the number of colleagues you can nominate. Self-nominations are accepted.

2025 Faculty Awards Nomination Form

Award winners will be announced at the 2025 Faculty Awards Celebration on November 20, 2025.


2024 Faculty Award Winners

  • Cindy Seaburn, English, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Mort O'Sullivan, Accounting and Finance, Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
  • Dr. Audrey Eagle, Instructional Design and Technology, School of Education
  • Kyle Rank, Movement Sciences and Health, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health

The library hosts the Argo Scholars Commons, a research portal and institutional repository providing a digital showcase of research, scholarship, and creativity of faculty, students, and staff of the University of West Florida community. The Argo Scholar Commons serves two purposes. It contains researcher profiles that provide information about faculty, their research, and scholarly works. At the same time, it is the online repository where we gather, preserve, and showcase scholarly output produced by UWF faculty, students, and staff.

Argo Scholars Commons Award Recipients
Award Name Recipient Paper Title
Longest Paper Title Dr. Daudet Ilunga Tshiswaka

Analysis of self-efficacy for stroke recognition and action from a cluster randomised trial evaluating the effects of stroke education pamphlets versus a 12-minute culturally tailored stroke film among Black and Hispanic churchgoers in New York

Most Web of Science Citations Dr. Youngil Lee Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)
Most Viewed Article Dr. Melanie DiLoreto & Dr. Julie Gray Student Satisfaction and Perceived Learning in Online Learning Environments: An Instrument Development and Validation Study
Most Downloaded Article Emily Harris Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Sustainability

Early Career

  • Dr. Shelby Solomon, Business Administration, Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business

Senior Career

  • Dr. Rodney Guttman, Biology, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Karen Molek, Chemistry, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. John Pecore, Teaching, Leadership, and Research, School of Education

  • Exceptional Student Education, B.A., School of Education

  • Dr. Patsy Barrington, Movement Sciences and Health, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health

  • Dr. Allysha Winburn, Anthropology, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Dr. Brandon Fultz, Chemistry, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Katherine Whitaker, Chemistry, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Micah Grant, Accounting and Finance, Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
  • Dr. Amy Crawley, Movement Sciences and Health, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health

Senior Career

  • Dr. Achraf Cohen, Mathematics and Statistics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering

Early Career

  • Dr. Shusen Pu, Mathematics and Statistics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering

Largest Grants Received
Faculty/Staff Member Grant Title Amount Awarded Agency
Greg Britton Florida Small Business Development Center Network Grant $8,393,834 Small Business Administration
Dr. Eman El-Sheikh 2023 National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Grant Program UWF $2,500,000 National Security Agency
Jane Caffrey Northwest Florida Estuary Water Quality Protection and Restoration Grant $2,000,000 Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Dr. Eman El-Sheikh IGC-UWF National Security Workshop Development Program (CyberSkills2Work) Information Grant $1,487,117.40 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Dr. Robert Griffin High-Powered Arms, Grippers, and Improved Rapid Prototyping for Advanced Urban Exploration Robots Grant $801,327.11 Office of Naval Research
Dr. Matthew Schwartz Florida Defense Support Task Force Phase 1B Grant $460,000 Enterprise Florida
Kaley Dawkins Fiscal Year 2023 Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program Grant $400,000 U.S. Department of Education

  • Dr. Shim Lew, "KSU: Towards more equitable practices in Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs of a Georgia's largest school district: A focus on the Korean-English DLBE program"
  • Dr. Amanda Croteau, "Why settle here? The effect of water quality, water column placement, and substrate on epibenthic settlement in Perdido Bay"

  • Dr. John Bratten, $1 Million Level
  • Kaley Dawkins, $1 Million Level
  • Greg Britton, $25 Million Level

  • Lauren Rex, Mathematics and Statistics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Julie Ann Williams, Business Administration, Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business

  • Dr. Cas Breaux, Center for Behavior Analysis

We recognize Dr. Andrea Nelson, who pioneered Pressbooks at UWF in 2021. Dr. Nelson found a Canadian Open Educational Resource text that would work and decided to adapt it using Pressbooks, but she had only two months to revise the text and get it ready for use for the 2022 spring semester. Working with Dr. Katherine Greene, also in the Department of Health Sciences and Administration, they were able to complete the work necessary to publish the text in December 2021, just in time for the spring semester. Since then, the textbook, Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professionals, has saved students $64,684 last year and over $171,000 in textbook costs since it was first published.

  • Dr. Adam Blood, Communication, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Taekyoung "Shawn" Kim, Mathematics and Statistics, Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Susan James, Teaching, Leadership, and Research, School of Education
  • Dr. Jeff Phillips, Instructional Design and Technology, School of Education
  • Dr. Justin Page, Center for Behavior Analysis, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health