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November
FSU Faculty Senate Presents Torch Awards
The Florida State University Faculty Senate has honored three individuals for their contributions to the university’s academic excellence with awards named for the three torches in the university’s seal: Vires, Artes and Mores.
FSU Physics Researcher Awarded for Achievements with Computing Applications
A team including The Florida State University’s Gregory Brown has been named the winner of the 2009 Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications.
FSU Recognizes BB&T Regional President With Circle of Gold Award
The Florida State University Alumni Association has recognized a distinguished alumna with one of the association’s highest awards.
FSU Student Named National Champion at Sales Competition
Maryellen White, a professional sales major at in the Florida State University College of Business, has come home a national champion from the Russ Berrie Institute (RBI) for Professional Sales at William Paterson University’s National Sales Challenge.
FSU-Teach Program, Scholarships Helping Train and Mentor Young Teachers
Though Katie Aplington and Shellie Warburton didn’t come to The Florida State University thinking they would one day become educators, they now find themselves at the top of a prestigious new teaching program offered by the university. Both women are part of an innovative program aimed at developing new mathematics and science teachers, and were recently named the university’s first recipients of the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship.
Florida State Presents Rare Westcott Medal to Key Legislative Staffer David Coburn
The Florida State University has presented one of its most distinguished and rare awards -- the James D. Westcott Medal -- to alumnus David Coburn, who has had a distinguished three-decade career in public service.
Foreign Policy Expert to Discuss Climate Change and National Security
Frank E. Loy, who served as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs during the Clinton administration, will speak at The Florida State University on Dec. 1 as part of the “Human Rights & National Security in the 21st Century” lecture series.
Grant Aims to Advance Academic Women in Chemistry, Engineering
Five Florida universities, including The Florida State University, are partners on a professional-development project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that seeks to increase the representation and promote the advancement of women educators in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the so-called “STEM” disciplines. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of a larger and more diverse science and engineering academic work force.
Grants Helping Scientist Tell a Complex Tale of Proteins and Metabolites
A Florida State University biophysical chemist has received two large grants totaling more than $1.66 million to pursue research into the behavior of proteins, particularly their dynamics, and their interactions with one another and with other complex molecules found in living organisms. His research, while at a fundamental level, has the potential to serve as a building block for future inroads in the diagnosis and treatments of a variety of diseases.
Instructional Systems Program, Professor Recognized
Professor Robert Reiser and the Instructional Systems program at The Florida State University were recently ranked among those authors and organizations that, over the past 20 years, have had the most articles published in Educational Technology Research and Development, a leading research journal in the field of instructional design and technology.
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