UWF Events

• Former president of Poland and Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa speaks during Festival on the Green
• Phillips Jazz Piano Competition joins Festival on the Green as a main event
• Panhandle campuses renamed UWF Emerald Coast campuses
• Main campus gains spot on Great Florida Birding Trail
• UWF hosts the first NCAA Division II Fall Sports Festival

World Events

• Civil War wages in Iraq
• North Korea and India test missiles
• Congress renews Patriot Act
• Democrats regain control of both house of Congress in fall elections
• Pluto loses status as planet
• Gerald Ford and Coretta Scott King die
• Barbaro wins the Kentucky Derby, breaks down at the Preakness
• University of Florida wins NCAA basketball and football championships