Faculty/Staff News
![UWA Police Chief Josette White.](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UWA-PD-J-White-0394.jpg)
- Posted 02.08.22
- 7 minute read time
The moment isn’t lost on Josette White. Not in the least. Strangers aren’t greeted with bouts of hyperbole when they meet the University of West Alabama’s police chief. They instead sense hints of calmness and professional sincerity.
![Kelly McClure.](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/K-McClure_0361.jpg)
- Posted 01.28.22
- 8 minute read time
Nursing seeped into Kelly McClure’s world not by accident or epiphany, but via something just as effective. Youthful curiosity, fleeting as it often is, won out
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- Posted 01.19.22
- 7 minute read time
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- Posted 01.03.22
- 5 minute read time
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- Posted 12.10.21
- 6 minute read time
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- Posted 12.09.21
- 4 minute read time
![Dr. Mustafa Morsy in lab](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Morsy_1440.jpg)
- Posted 11.30.21
- 5 minute read time
Famine didn’t mar the childhood of Dr. Mustafa Morsy, a professor of biology at the University of West Alabama. Food for his family in Alexandria, Egypt, was readily available. “I was always thankful as middle-class people growing up that my dad was able to feed us,” he said.
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- Posted 11.18.21
- 5 minute read time
![Dr. Ashley Dumas at archaeological site](https://www.uwa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dumas-Archaeological-Dig-Site-web.jpg)
- Posted 10.25.21
- 7 minute read time
Generations of archaeologists have long sought the historical Holy Grail of the Battle of Mabila, the Alabama site where Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto defeated Chief Tuskaloosa and his Native American warriors in 1540.