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Professor awarded $1.5 million grant to help struggling readers
Barbara Foorman, the Francis Eppes Professor in the Florida State University College of Education and director of the university’s Florida Center for Reading Research, has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Education to measure reading progress in struggling adolescents.
International award honors chemistry professor Naresh Dalal
Naresh S. Dalal, the Dirac Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Florida State University, has been selected to receive the 2010 Silver Medal for Physics/Materials Science from the International Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Society. The elite award has been bestowed only six times previously, and only twice in the past seven years.
Education professor honored for research contributions
Jon C. Dalton, an associate professor in The Florida State University’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Literature or Research Award by NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Former student has nation's top dissertation in nuclear physics
A recent doctoral graduate of The Florida State University has earned top honors in his discipline as the author of the nation’s best doctoral dissertation in nuclear physics.
FSU playwright Dan Dietz wins 'National Ten-Minute Play Contest' - again
For “Lobster Boy,” his haunting 10-minute play about a little boy who literally feels no pain and the brother who seeks to cure him, Assistant Professor of playwrighting Dan Dietz of The Florida State University has won the 2010 Heideman Award.
Researchers envision high-tech applications for 'multiferroic' crystals
Two of The Florida State University’s most accomplished scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline minerals. Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that can hold vast amounts of data and be strongly encrypted for security purposes.
College of Business alumnus James Seneff receives Horatio Alger Award
James M. Seneff Jr., chairman and CEO of CNL Financial Group Inc. and an alumnus of the Florida State University College of Business, has been named a recipient of the 2010 Horatio Alger Award.
Florida State Moot Court team wins national advocacy competition
The Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team has won the 2010 Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition. This year’s competition was held Feb. 5 in Washington, D.C., at George Washington University Law School. This is the second time in the four-year history of the competition that Florida State has won first place.
Florida State Law professors create scholarly e-journal on sustainability
Florida State University College of Law professors have created an interdisciplinary electronic journal to publish scholarship on all aspects of sustainable resource use and development.
Alumnus Barron takes office as Florida State's 14th president
Eric J. Barron has taken his position as 14th president of The Florida State University. As he moved into his Westcott Building office, Barron listed his priorities for his first few weeks. “I really want to see the synergism of the strategic plan, the fundraising of the university, and how it is we show our face to the world,” he said. “Of course we’re also going right into the legislative session,” he added.
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