October

When it comes to the ability to pass down wealth from one generation to the next, people in today’s knowledge-based economy are much like hunter-gatherers: They rely on wits and skill to make a living but have relatively few material assets to bequeath to children, according to an international team of researchers that includes a Florida State University anthropologist.

With a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a pair of Florida State University scientists are performing basic research involving electricity that could provide an important building block in the emerging technical field known as spintronics.

Human trafficking, illegal arms trades, Israeli war crimes and Muslim fundamentalists in Russia are all hypothetical crises that the World Affairs Program at The Florida State University has been “solving” for its trip to the National Collegiate Security Conference (NCSC) next month.