Johnny Gazoo Johnny Gazoo knows the difference Pensacola State College can make in a person’s life. He’s hoping his time, work and effort at PSC will help him reach his goals – one of which is to go back and sit on the side of that Central American volcano. Gazoo and his wife moved from…
Applications for Fellows Foundation scholarships are being accepted through May 1. Available to students majoring in health care fields or the ministry, the scholarships will be awarded in July for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. The scholarships range from $1,000 to $10,000, and applicants can reapply each subsequent academic year. Medical School/Physician Assistant Students who…
PSC Coordinator of Student Engagement and Leadership Chandler White speaks with an incoming student at a Pensacola State College Resource Fair on April 11. Chandler White’s job is almost akin to that of a cheerleader coach/college mascot hybrid. His job is to recruit Pensacola State students to become more engaged with the College, exhibit school…
Larry Watson will perform at the Pensacola State College International Festival set for April 15. The New School Motown-inspired singer will perform at 3 p.m. on the festival’s main stage. Of course, there will be something Asian at the Pensacola State College International Festival on Saturday, April 15. The recently-opened Something Asian food truck will…
Khaliah Williams, from left, Dorothy Lee and Chinesa Sunday are all Pensacola State alums who work at the UF/IFAS Extension Escambia County office. Khaliah Williams’ new job is an important one that will improve the lives of Escambia County’s most vulnerable and those in need. On March 20, Williams, a Pensacola State College alumna, started…
The stellar work currently displayed in Pensacola State College’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts looks very professional. Yet all 100 artists featured in the exhibition are Pensacola State students. The annual PSC Student Art Awards Exhibition opened on April 3 and runs through May 5 in the Switzer Gallery. An opening reception and…
Pierre Baldwin You practice to get better. And if results mean anything, and they do, moving from second place to first is a sure sign of improvement and achievement. Pierre Baldwin practices his saxophone a lot. The PSC Marine Biology student won first place in the Jazz Pensacola Student Jazz Competition’s Collegiate Instrumental category, besting…
Joanna Hrycuna arranges ornamental metal garden flowers while her husband Gary Hrycuna rakes up their spot at the UF/IFAS and PSC Milton Campus Spring Festival of Flowers. The Mobile, Ala., couple travel selling their wares across the south. Their two-person company is called the Lazy Scroll. The Spring Festival of Flowers takes place Friday through…
There will be a lot of local flavor on the inaugural Pensacola State College women’s soccer team, which begins its first season of play in August. The first four players signed to the Pirates team are all high school and club standouts from Santa Rosa County. PSC’s first soccer coach, Mark Yepishin, promises more local…
Pensacola State College’s Cybersecurity Program has passed the first hurdle in earning a National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity designation from the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA is the U.S. intelligence agency responsible for global data and intelligence collection and processing. The National Centers of Academic Excellence have validated the College’s Associate of…
Six Pensacola State College faculty members are the 2023 Academy of Teaching Excellence inductees. Awarded annually to outstanding classroom instructors who demonstrate sustained teaching excellence, the inductees and their departments are: Instructor Lauren Baugus, English and Communications Assistant Professor Dr. Kate Cavanaugh, Natural Sciences Adjunct Faculty Tabitha Epperson-Graham, Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Don Lee,…
Edmund Berrigan Edmund Berrigan was born with poetry in his blood. His father, Ted Berrigan, was a well-known and respected “late-Beat” poet and writer. According to the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, his mother, Alice Notley, has become “one of America’s greatest living poets.” Notley spoke at Pensacola State College in 2019 as part of the Lyceum…
Pensacola State College and ST Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opening a new Aviation Maintenance Training Academy at the Pensacola International Airport. The announcement was made during the Feb. 27 grand opening of ST Engineering’s Hangar 2. The proposed academy would be open to adult learners and dual-enrolled high school students…
Albaraa Basfar Dr. Albaraa Basfar will travel back to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, this May, where he will receive his doctorate and be recognized as the Distinguished Ph.D. Student in the university’s Education Studies program. “I’ve very honored,’’ said Basfar, Pensacola State College Research Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research. “It was a…
Christy Myers, regional representative for Steinway with Benjamin Rollings, winner of the Top Piano Teacher Award from Steinway & Sons. Benjamin Rollings was a talented and accomplished piano student, earning scholarships and graduation distinctions throughout his musical studies, which began at age 6. As a teacher, Rollings is just as accomplished. Rollings is a Pensacola…
McGuire’s Irish Pub Pipe Band Filipino pancit, African drummers, Polynesian Hula Dancing, Irish bagpipe tunes and a Japanese bonsai exhibit will be among the many offerings at the 2023 Pensacola State College International Festival. Set for 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, the festival will transform the College’s Pensacola campus into a bazaar of…
Pensacola State College has been named a 2023-2024 Gold Military Friendly® School by Viqtory Media. This is the 14th year the College has received the accolade and the second consecutive year earning the gold designation. Pensacola State is one of 250 schools to receive the gold status for leading practices, outcomes, and effective programs that…
2023 AAMES Wiggins Scholarship Recipients, from left front row, Dr. Tonie Anderson-Steele, Taliesha McClain, Devina Hall, Dr. Rameca Vincent Leary, Katisha Williams and Teala Reguindin. From left back row, Onesimus Gordon, Taelen Stovall, Penelope McCants, Aria Hilliard, Chandra Walker and Dr. Ed Meadows Teala Reguindin recently graduated from Pensacola State College’s nationally-acclaimed Nursing Program as…
The prize winners and competition officials for the Pensacola State College 2023 Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition are, from left, Jason Sisko, adjudicator; Derrick Javier, adjudicator and competition sponsor representative for Minds on Music; First-place winner Donald Hinchman; Second-place winner Laws Savage; Third-place winner Simon Joos; Bokyung Byun, Guest Artist and adjudicator; Jim DeStafney, competition…
A steady stream of returning Pensacola State College students moved through Building 21 n the Pensacola campus on March 1 to register for summer and fall 2023 semesters. March 1 was the first day of Priority Registration, which runs through March 31. Returning students who register for classes during Priority Registration will be eligible to…
Penny Taylor, PSC TRIO-Student Support Services Retention Specialist. The free hot dogs and hamburgers are gone. However, Pensacola State College’s TRIO programs still offer free student trips, academic advisors, free tutoring, and so much more all year. TRIO programs nationwide celebrated a legacy of student service on Feb. 28. Pensacola State’s TRIO Day celebration on…
Chasity Brooks and PSC Photography Professor Kristen Regan. Chasity Brooks was named the 2023 Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest winner during a short ceremony at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille on March 1. A grandmother and PSC photography student, Brooks was one of five students whose work was featured throughout February at the popular…
Members are, from left, Isaac Railing, Israel Railing, Laws Savage, Peg Barrett, Dawson Calugar, Sienna Hudak, Patrick Kinnell, Connor Bond and Rory Swanson. Pensacola State College will present the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Joe Stallings, in its 40th Anniversary Spring Recital on Saturday, April 1. The recital is set for 7:30…
Pensacola State College officially cut the ribbon on its newest site – the Truck Driver Training Facility – on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Located at 5957 Jeff Ates Road in the Santa Rosa Industrial Park East in Milton, the $7.8 million Truck Driver Training Facility will be home to the College’s Commercial Vehicle Driver Vocational Certificate…
PSC alumna Kristian Breeze During spring break 2018, Kristian Breeze and her partner took a road trip to New Mexico. One of the must-see stops for Breeze, a Pensacola State College graphic design student at the time, was the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The museum celebrates one of the country’s most significant artists,…
Let’s just hope that by Oct. 8, it feels like lumberjack weather. Because that’s when the Lumberjack Festival returns to the Milton campus for a day of outdoor fun and competition. The 33rd annual Northwest Florida Forestry Conclave Lumberjack Festival takes place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. near the track on Pensacola State College’s Milton campus.…
More American women die because of domestic violence than from breast cancer. This was only one of the facts that Marsha Travis with FavorHouse of Northwest Florida shared with the Lady Pirates basketball team on Friday, Sept. 16. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Travis mentioned both to the team…
A CareerSource ESCAROSA representative speaks to an attendee at a 2020 job fair. More than 30 Northwest Florida employers will be at Pensacola State Fall Job Fair set for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 21 in the College’s Student Center. More than 30 Northwest Florida employers are looking to hire at the Pensacola State College Fall…
We hope the first week of the fall 2022 semester went well. But we also know that sometimes things happen. Dogs eat homework all the time. There’s not much we at Pensacola State College can do about that. Still, there are problems and concerns that students might face that PSC can help overcome. There are…
Art instructor Paula Work talks to students on Aug. 15, the first day of the fall 2022 semester. Ashanti East wasn’t taking any chances on Monday, Aug. 15, the first day of the 2022 Pensacola State College fall term. A full 15 minutes before her second class of the day – a humanities course –…
Play guitar? Want to earn college credits for playing guitar? Well, the Pensacola State College Jazz Ensemble sure could use your shredding. (Not sure if musicians “shred” in jazz but go with it.) PSC Band Director Doug Holsworth is seeking musicians of all types to fill the rosters of the College’s two bands – the…
By day, Brett Patterson helps some of our community’s most vulnerable folks attend Pensacola State College. By night, Patterson jams with his wife Lee Patterson as the musical duo Snake and the Rabbit ─ a well-seasoned outfit that will likely find a way into regional music venues once the couple is a bit settled in Pensacola. Patterson is the new director of the PSC Eldon L. Norman Education Opportunity Center (EOC) and is only three weeks into the job. A TRIO program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the EOC assists low- and modest-income and/or first-generation college students enroll in a postsecondary institution or to return after a period away.
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