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Faculty and Staff
Leasha Barry, Teacher Education, was named the Autism Professional of the Year by the Autism Society of the Panhandle. She was honored at the society’s ‘Connecting the Pieces’ Gala held at the Pensacola Beach Hilton in April. Her work will also be recognized at the international conference of Applied Behavior Analysts in Phoenix, Ariz., this month.

Dean DeBolt, University Libraries, was a speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) held in April in Charleston, W.V. UWF is a major implementer of Archon, an open-source software program that permits greater access to archives and historical materials owned by Special Collections. MARAC, made up of archivists of six states, including the National Archives, asked DeBolt to speak on how UWF implemented and uses the program for researchers.

Richard Hough and Kimberly Tatum, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, addressed an international delegation from the West Bank to discuss domestic violence programs in the U.S. and in Northwest Florida. They also conducted a roundtable with UWF Legal Studies and Criminal Justice students for the delegation.

Susan Shaw, UWF Emerald Coast/University Marketing Communications, was awarded the American Advertising Federation’s prestigious Silver Medal. Criteria for the Silver Medal include that the recipient must have achieved success in advertising agency, advertiser, media or advertising service; shown a consistent, high degree of original thinking in his/her field; worked to increase the stature and raise the standards of the advertising profession; and should be someone who has been active in civic or other groups dedicated to human or social welfare.

Ray Uzwyshyn, University Libraries, recently completed a series of documentary video portraits for the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA), a humanitarian and medical relief organization based in New York and operating in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The digital videos were accomplished in honor of 10 years of the BRA’s regional medical and humanitarian aid efforts and will be utilized by the organization online and shown in the Dominican Republic and U.S. as part of a wider examination of the past decade’s regional aid efforts. Uzwyshyn has been variously involved with digital initiatives regarding the Caribbean region ranging from projects involving Cuba to working with humanitarian and medical based groups such as the BRA. His involvement with the BRA began in the 1990s in New York with an early multimedia site which utilized digitized aural and visual elements from Haitian voodoo,  the background cultural ground for the Dominican Bateys. Since then, the BRA’s work has evolved to wider humanitarian medical relief efforts working with impoverished Caribbean populations and in partnership with other international groups in the region.

Students
Andrew Blevins, Annalee Chiswell and Melida Mendez, Logistics, traveled to East Lansing, Mich., in April to compete against the world’s top logistics students at the 2009 Supply Chain Challenge. The challenge was hosted by Michigan State University, Dow Chemical, Motorola, Shell Oil, Flextronics, IBM, GM and Chrysler. By creating a superior supply chain strategy that led to higher performance in the key outcome factors, the UWF team won third place over 11 other university teams. And, not only did the UWF team place third in the overall simulation, but UWF’s supply chain contribution margin was ranked first and the inventory turns were ranked second.

Tanya Gallagher, Environmental Studies, received a 10-week summer internship through the NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars program at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. She will be studying environmental applications that can be placed in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Gilbert (Ryan) Petris and Ryan Sharpe, Computer Science, took first place in the Java programming competition at the 2009 Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) National Collegiate Conference held in April in Oklahoma City. More than 600 participants attended and 13 different competitions were held. The Java competition was sponsored by State Farm Insurance and featured 30 teams.

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