News and Events

• Action News Jax featured Anthropology student Victoria Hayes’ grant from the Timucuan Parks Foundation and the National Park Service’s Timucuan Ecological Historic Preserve.
• The Florida Times-Union featured Dr. David Jaffee’s expertise on the rental crisis.
• Florida Today shared the UNF Archaeology Lab’s new findings.
• The UNF Archaeology Lab is unveiling a lost Indigenous town at Big Talbot Island State Park. Learn more about what the lab has uncovered during their dig.
• Action News Jax featured UNF’s Archaeology Lab’s efforts to unveil new finds about the lost indigenous town of Sarabay.
• First Coast News and InterNewsCast wrote a feature on the rental housing crisis, and how sociologist David Jaffee is spearheading the Jax Rental Housing Project to develop affordable homes.
• Rachel Paul, a Sociology minor, was named among 154 student civic leaders in the U.S. and Mexico to the 2023 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows by Campus Compact. Learn more about what makes Rachel a student civic leader and about the Newman Civic Fellowship.
• Maria Encinosa, an Anthropology minor and UNF graduate, gets a scholarship to Harvard!
• Smithsonian Magazine wrote a feature that included Drs. Denise Bossy and Keith Ashley as having a part in deciphering a lost native language.
• The Florida Times-Union published a guest column written by sociologist Dr. David Jaffee on pending legislation.

• Popular Science and Science Daily highlighted how archaeologist Dr. Jackie Meier is uncovering clues on how the people in Greece’s Mycenaean civilization lived.
• UNF celebrates National Social Work Month
• News4JAX and WJCT News shared analysis from sociologistDr. David Jaffee who examined the impacts of corporate investors on the local housing market.
• Dr. Jessica Chandras was awarded a NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
• Drs. Jessica Chandras and Jasmine Haynes were selected to participate in the UNF Center for Community-Based Learning’s 2023-2024 Community Scholars Program.
• Drs. Jessica Chandras, Rosa de Jorio, and Jonathan Grant were awarded a 2023-2024 Community Engagement Research Fellowship by the UNF Center for Community-Based Learning.
• Sydney Chatani was recognized as the Outstanding Sociology Student of 2022-2023.
• Magdalynne A. Alley was recognized as the Outstanding Anthropology Student of 2022-2023.
• Khelsea Boyd (Social Work) and Katie Jones (Sociology) received Spring 2023 Osprey Community Engagement Medallions.
• Drs. Keith Ashley and Denise Bossy received a 2023-2024 UNF Foundation Grant for their project Visualizing Indigenous History Northeast Florida.
• The Northeast Unit of the National Association of Social Workers-Florida Chapter honored UNF students at the 2023 Social Work Month Celebration. Paul Buchanan was recognized as BSW Student of the Year; Ryan Rish was recognized as MSW Student of the Year; and Alana Rollins received the Michael J. Wilson Award for Social Justice.

From left to right: Dr. Yolanda Machado-Escudero, Dr. Paul Clark, Professor Ross McDonough, BSW Student Paul Buchanan, MSW Student Ryan Rish, MSW Student Alana Rollins, Dr. Jasmine Haynes, and Dr. Cristy Cummings.