New Faculty 2018

August 27, 2018
The College of Sciences is excited to introduce 21 new faculty members into eight departments in 2018. Welcome!




Roger Pynn ’73, APR, CPRC

June 11, 2018
Biography Roger Pynn is founder and Senior Counsel of Curley & Pynn. He has been involved in Florida’s communications community since the late 1960s, starting his career as a journalist with the Orlando Sentinel. He began his public relations career in the mid-70s with an Orlando advertising agency where he helped establish The Public Relations […]

Anthony Nicholson H’18

June 11, 2018
Tony Nicholson started his entrepreneurial career in 1962, shortly after he graduated from college. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Tulane University. Nicholson began working in new site acquisition and lease negotiation for the McDonald’s Corporation. This experience led Nicholson to Site Finders Unlimited, a real estate brokerage, where he offered site […]

Christopher Lombardo ’80, JD

June 11, 2018
Biography Chris Lombardo represent clients in family law, personal injury, civil and commercial Litigation and appellate practice. Lombardo earned his BA in political science from UCF and his Juris Doctorate in 1983 from Florida State. He is a member of the Florida Bar and Collier County Bar Association, as well as the Academy of Florida […]

Les Kramer, PhD, PE

June 11, 2018
Biography Les Kramer, Ph.D., PE, has 47 years of experience as a materials scientist and engineer, a program manager and an entrepreneur in the defense, power generation and renewable energy, prosthetics and commercial industries. He is the motive force that spun off TaiLor Made, LLC – a prosthetic foot manufacturing company based on his simple […]

Michael Griffin ’84

June 11, 2018
Michael Griffin is the Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy, providing Advocacy leadership to AdventHealth. The AdventHealth system includes 52 hospital facilities located across nine states and serves more than eight million patients every year. Mike received his bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a Political Science minor at the University of Central Florida. […]

Gwen Griffin ’85

June 11, 2018
A nearly four-decade veteran of the strategic communications industry, Gwen Griffin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Griffin Communications Group. She launched the firm in 1997, and since then, has grown it to become a powerhouse with an undeniable reputation in the aerospace and STEM education industries. Some of the most recognized brands […]

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