Annant Whalen
Assistant Director for Operations and Academic Support, Maples Center for Forensic Medicine

She handles graduate admissions, retention and academic advising for the Wildlife Forensics Sciences and Conservation and Forensic Medicine programs. She has worked at UF since 2005 with a few years at universities overseas in between where she worked as a university registrar, academic advisor and testing officer. At UF she served in the Office of Admissions from 2016-2021 where she handled freshman and transfer admissions as well as transfer evaluation and undergraduate readmission. She has in-depth knowledge of UF’s Enrollment Management systems. Annant’s academic background is in Geography. She has lived and worked in seven countries and considers herself to be a global citizen. She loves to travel, walk, cook and paint.