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:
- Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award
- Community Engaged Faculty Award
- Distinction in Faculty Scholarly, Creative and Research
- Early Career Award
- Senior Faculty Award
- Distinguished Faculty Service Award
- Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
- Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
- Early Career Award
- Senior Career Award
- President's Award for Exemplary Online Teaching
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.
Award Name | Recipient | Paper Title |
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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
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