2021 UNF Year in Review
In 2021, University of North Florida students, faculty and staff continued to excel and prosper with exciting new initiatives, research grants, discoveries, campus expansion projects and more. Look back on some of the top UNF stories of the year in chronological order:
- UNF MedNexus and FSCJ announced an academic and facility healthcare education partnership
- Coggin College of Business unveiled a new graduate and executive programs department
- Student Raul Chavarria received the competitive and highly exclusive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- School of Engineering unveiled new graduate and undergraduate engineering degree programs
- UNF named Nick Morrow as director of Athletics following Coach Moon’s retirement
- UNF archaeology researchers uncovered the lost Indigenous settlement of Sarabay
- UNF physics researchers discovered a new electronic phenomenon
- UNF received the largest competitive grant in history to fund Alzheimer’s research
- Former President Szymanski and First Lady Maria unveiled a new Healing Garden on campus
- College of Education and Human Services was awarded a $3.5M US Dept of Ed grant to prepare special education administrators
- A UNF alum realized his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut
- UNF celebrated a significant land donation for future University expansion