Florida State University’s nationally regarded experts in terrorism, trauma, communications and economics are ready to answer media questions and provide analysis of the historical, political, cultural and economic ramifications of the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Florida State University Artist-in-Residence Jawole Willa Jo Zollar –– acclaimed choreographer and the founding and artistic director of New York dance company Urban Bush Women –– has been named Florida State’s 2011-2012 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. It is the highest honor bestowed by the FSU faculty on one of its own.
An innovative public-private collaboration between one of the world’s top digital effects and computer animation companies, the Digital Domain Media Group, and one of the nation’s finest film schools, Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, announced the development of a new digital media enterprise to be located in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Earth Day 2011 at The Florida State University will find its Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science faculty celebrating not only the one-year anniversary of their interdisciplinary unit's formation but also the huge response from FSU undergraduates - more than 300 so far - to the department's new Environmental Science degree programs.
Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University composer-theorist Clifton Callender, whose work explores and maps the mathematics of musical harmony.
Researchers at Florida State University will use a three-year, $2 million U.S. Department of Education grant to investigate ways to improve how students are assessed in middle-school science classes.
How much would the public be willing to pay for a government-sponsored identity theft prevention program? The answer: about $87 per year. That’s the finding from a four-state survey conducted by Florida State University criminologists, who report that two-thirds of their respondents expressed a willingness to pay for a hypothetical program promising to reduce identity theft by 75 percent.
The Florida State University has internationally recognized faculty researchers who stand ready to comment on a variety of topics related to the March 11 Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami. The following experts are available to speak with the news media on potential dangers at Japan’s nuclear facilities, the physical processes that underlie the formation of a tsunami, the challenges that the public health sector faces in the coming hours and days, and how religion figures in to the way the Japanese people react to and deal with a disaster of this magnitude.
As demonstrations continue in the Middle East and North Africa, Florida State University experts are available to answer media questions and provide historical perspective on these unprecedented events.
It’s a frustrating problem for many of today’s parents: Little Jacob or Isabella is utterly indifferent to schoolwork during the day but then happily spends all evening engrossed in the latest video game.
A new, University of Georgia-led study co-authored by Florida State University oceanographer Ian MacDonald is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge. The study has found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott today announced that Bing Energy Inc. (http://bingenergyinc.com/) of Chino, Calif., has selected Tallahassee as the new site of the company’s world headquarters. The company, in collaboration with Professor Jim P. Zheng (http://www.eng.fsu.edu/ece/directory/jim_zheng/) of The Florida State University, is planning to turn revolutionary nanotechnology pioneered at FSU into a better, faster, more economical and commercially viable fuel cell. The move is expected to create at least 244 jobs paying an average wage of $41,655 in Florida.
Criminologist Alex Piquero has won the 2011 Academy Fellow Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), and it’s no wonder. Piquero ranks No. 1 in the nation for scholarly contributions to his field, and so does The Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, where he and other top-ranked faculty are bringing research to life.
Jan. 28 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in which all eight astronauts on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster became a “where were you when?” moment for a generation, especially for schoolchildren — now adults — who were gathered in classrooms across the nation to watch live on television as McAuliffe made history. Florida State University experts are available to answer media questions and provide historical perspective on this national tragedy.
Using biological samples taken from patients and state-of-the-art biochemical techniques, a Florida State University researcher is working to identify a variety of “biomarkers” that might provide earlier warnings of the presence of breast and prostate cancers.
Thick gravel, mud, snow, steep ramps or hills . . . They might get a pedestrian a little dirty or out of breath, but to someone in an electric wheelchair, they could mean terrain that’s simply too difficult to cross alone.
Using unique equipment developed by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University, an international team of researchers has used the spin of atomic nuclei in silicon to store information for longer than a minute and a half. More remarkable still, the team showed that the information can be read out electronically — a key step toward the development of faster conventional computers and superfast “quantum” computers.
Nearly 60 Florida State University graduate students in computer science will serve on America’s front line of defense in protecting the nation’s information infrastructure from cyberterrorism.
Used in the proper amounts, it can make teeth stronger and aid in the treatment of osteoporosis. When excessive amounts are consumed, however, it can be a killer — a carcinogen that causes bone, lung and bladder cancers. The “it” is fluoride, a common additive in most American communities’ drinking water and an ingredient in the vast majority of commercially produced adult toothpastes.
The Louis S. Tregre Award is one of the interior design world’s most distinguished honors, and this year it has gone to Florida State University Professor David M. Butler, who for more than three decades as a licensed interior designer and as a faculty member in FSU’s interior design program has exemplified and promoted his field’s highest standards.
In recent years, the American workplace has been infused with unprecedented levels of hostility — and that’s largely due to the deterioration of supervisor-subordinate trust, according to Florida State University researchers.
Florida State University English Professor Anne E.B. Coldiron rocked the humanities world in 2010 by winning in a matter of months not one but two premier fellowships –– first from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and, now, from the Folger Shakespeare Library, home to one of the world’s greatest archives of rare books.
When it comes to teaching space and Earth sciences, there’s a world of information out there, and two Florida State University researchers are helping K-12 teachers to bring it into the classroom.
Scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University are working to open a new frontier in chemistry, biology and materials studies, thanks to a recent $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
American soldiers are taking their own lives in the largest numbers since the military began keeping records, and the Department of Defense has enlisted the help of The Florida State University in waging the war against suicide.
Micah Ranum may have earned his master’s degree a mere two years ago, but he has already claimed one of the top honors in his profession.
Beating the flu has always been tough, but it has gotten even more difficult in recent years. Two of the four antiviral drugs used to treat a nasty case of the influenza A virus no longer work.
Widespread layoffs and other job changes associated with the Great Recession have caused workers to question career-related sacrifices, including time away from family, less leisure time and fewer self-improvement activities.
No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it –– sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich –– and now, there’s more. Evidence from a pilot study led by food scientists at The Florida State University suggests that watermelon can be an effective natural weapon against prehypertension, a precursor to cardiovascular disease.
Using a combination of high-powered computers and advanced experimental magnetic resonance data, a Florida State University biophysical chemist has developed techniques that improve the way scientists can study and predict the structure and dynamics of proteins found in the human body. His innovations could ultimately shorten the time it takes researchers to develop new, more effective drugs and better understand biomedical processes that underlie a variety of health conditions.
Pulling it together was a Herculean task that took some five years to complete, but now a massive training curriculum designed by Florida State University researchers to ensure the security of the nation’s 350 commercial ports is about to enter the marketplace.
A study by two Florida State University biochemists makes an important contribution to science’s understanding of a serious problem causing concern worldwide: the growing resistance of some harmful bacteria to the drugs that were intended to kill them.
In recent human trials for a promising new class of drug designed to target the hepatitis C virus (HCV) without shutting down the immune system, some of the HCV strains being treated exhibited signs of drug resistance.
Florida State University oceanographer Jeff Chanton is part of an international team embarking on a new study of permafrost decomposition in arctic Sweden. What he and his fellow researchers discover there may be critical given the permafrost’s key role in climate change, and vice versa.
We’ve all heard the saying about people who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, but it turns out that walking and talking is difficult enough, especially for people with Parkinson’s disease who are at increased risk for falls with injury.
On a small cocktail napkin strategically stained with coffee, an award-winning architect who teaches in The Florida State University interior design program produced a pen-and-ink drawing of a simple country church framed by a sepia-tinted sky.
A doctor records his patients’ symptoms on a tiny laptop computer, receiving instant, expert feedback for his diagnosis. A police officer gets a suspect’s rap sheet in minutes, thanks to the cruiser-installed computer connecting her to critical public safety data. Even the cashier at the fast-food joint uses a high-tech system to process your order of burger and fries.
A Florida State University engineering professor’s innovative research with nanomaterials could one day lead to a new generation of hydrogen fuel cells that are less expensive, smaller, lighter and more durable — advantages that might make them a viable option for widespread use in automobiles and in military and industrial technology.
In a field of maize, no two leafy stalks of multicolored corn will look exactly the same, even though they grew from seed cells with identical genetic material.
The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects –– English, math, science, history –– if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations, according to a study led by renowned biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of The Florida State University.
Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be.
Florida State University’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC, pronounced man-see) has received a significant grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand and improve residency support for visiting choreographers over the next two years.
Research productivity, a measure of the amount of scholarly research conducted by university faculty members and subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals, is widely used as a basis for comparison when scrutinizing the academic quality of similar programs in different institutions of higher education. And according to one such ranking, the real estate program in the Florida State University College of Business is among the very best in the world.
A Florida State University biologist and mathematician have joined forces to find out exactly how the brain oversees the secretion of the hormone prolactin from the pituitary gland, research that could lead to new ways to treat hundreds of disorders, including infertility.
Bad news, Miami. Of all Florida’s major population centers, the city is the most vulnerable to strong hurricane winds, according to Florida State University researchers who developed a new tool to estimate the frequency of extreme hurricane winds at a particular location.
The Tampa Bay Rays will host more than just the New York Yankees at Tropicana Field today. The stadium is newly equipped with five PepsiCo Dream Machine kiosks — the first in Major League Baseball to have them — and will welcome JR Martinez, co-star of the ABC-TV soap opera “All My Children” and a graduate of the Florida State University Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
An alumna of the interior design program and a facilities engineer from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University have received a patent for their prototype of a portable cradle perfect for infants in family homeless shelters.
A landmark study by Florida State University biologists, in collaboration with scientists in Britain, is the first to identify a life-or-death “cell competition” process in mammalian tissue that suppresses cancer by causing cancerous cells to kill themselves.
As recession-weary consumers learn to make do with less in this, the real world, there is one area where they’re still willing to spend freely: in online, “virtual” ones. A Florida State University researcher is studying the growing market for virtual products, particularly in Internet virtual worlds, and has identified several factors that appear to increase the likelihood that people will make these types of purchases.
High schools across the nation have long struggled to improve student achievement and reduce dropout rates. While reforms enacted over the past three decades have proven successful in some schools, transferring those reforms to others has been challenging, and many students continue to fall behind.
RSS
Medicine keyboard_arrow_right
Sciencekeyboard_arrow_right
Life keyboard_arrow_right
Business keyboard_arrow_right
Journal News keyboard_arrow_right
By Location keyboard_arrow_right
Meetings, Grants, and Events keyboard_arrow_right