List of University of West Florida people
The official list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of West Florida.[1]
The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida and UWF, is a mid-sized public university located in Pensacola, Florida, United States. The University enrolls approximately 12,000 students, as of Fall 2009. UWF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. The University of West Florida is a Doctoral/Research University, which specializes in engineering and the humanities. The University of West Florida was established in a partnership with the University of Florida and is known as UF’s sister University. Most academic programs at UWF were developed at UF and then turned over to UWF for administration. To date, UWF and UF have a strong partnership in their Electrical Engineering programs.[4] The university's mascot is an Argonaut, and the school's logo is the Chambered Nautilus.[2]
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Notable alumni
Academics
- Jeni Booker Senter - Prize-winning journalist (2008 Women in the Arts winner for Outstanding Press Coverage), award-winning poet and essayist.
- Richard Wetzel - Professor of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at the College of William and Mary
- Michael DeMaria - Notable American author
Business
- Bruce Edward Melnick - Vice President of Boeing Company's Integrated Defense Systems group, former NASA astronaut and current
- Hansel Tookes - CEO of Raytheon Aircraft
- James Ellis - President & CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations at Lockheed Martin, former U.S. Navy Admiral.
- Marc D. Oken - Former CFO of Bank of America 2004-2005
- Tom Keiser - The current CIO of GAP Inc - A major American clothing company and fortune 500 company.
Athletics
Entertainment and Television
Military, Space, and Aviation
- John W. Bergman - Current United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
- Michael L. Ferguson - Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army
- Bryan Daniel O'Connor - Former NASA astronaut
- Jim Buchili - Former NASA astronaut
- James O. Ellis - Retired Admiral with the United States Navy
- John L. Phillips - Active NASA astronaut
- Kenneth Cockrell - Former NASA astronaut
- Patricia Denkler - The first woman to land a jet on an aircraft carrier, and in 1982, she became the first woman to land a combat jet on an aircraft carrier
- Mark P. Fitzgerald - Vice Admiral and current Director of Navy Staff for the United States Navy
- Charles H. Johnston - Vice Admiral and current Vice Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command
- William H. Plackett - Former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
- Richard N. Richards - Former NASA astronaut
- Rear Admiral Edward G. Winters, III - Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command
Politics
Science
- Kenneth M. Ford - Computer scientist, chairman of National Science Board Committee on Programs and Plans and founder of Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Notable faculty
- Judith A. Bense - Interim University President, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, renowned archaeologist of the Southeastern United States
- James Bezdek - Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science, founding editor of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, creator of the Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm, and recipient of the 2001 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the 2007 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.
- Dallas Blanchard - Sociologist
- Patrick Moore - Distinguished Professor of Public History, selected Carnegie Foundation CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for the State of Florida in 2007
- Robert Yeager, Professor and Chair of English Department, writer on Medieval Studies who co-authored Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery with Terry Jones
- Susan W. Harrell - Distinguished Legal Studies Faculty
See also
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