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Florida State finds educational value in video games
Florida State University Professor Valerie Schute develops stealth assessment techniques to turn little Johnny and Susan's video games into competency tests.
08/10/2011 - Florida State eyes on the future of politics and sustainability
The Florida State University Master's in Applied American Politics and Policy celebrates 10 years of training the future political heavyweights, and FSU receives national recognition for its efforts to create a more sustainable campus.
08/08/2011 - Florida State Commencement worthy of Broadway!
FSU's 2011 Summer Commencement Ceremony features two stars of the stage. FSU Alumna Montego Glover, the commencement speaker, is an award winning actress and star of Broadway. Also recognized is acclaimed choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the 2011-2012 Robert O. Lawton Professor.
08/05/2011 - Research In Action!: The Flexible Battery
In today's episode of Research in Action! we visit a laboratory at FSU's High Performance Materials Institute where a doctoral student and his professor are working on a battery as flexible in its design as it is in its potential applications.
08/03/2011 - Bea Awoniyi honored for service to disabled students
Bea Awoniyi is awarded the Ronald E. Blosser Dedication Service Award by the Association on Higher Education and Disability. Awoniyi discusses her work as director of FSU's Student Disability Resource Center, and the strong dedication she feels to removing barriers for students with otherwise great abilities.
08/01/2011 - Florida State's Alan Marshall adds two major awards to distinguished career
FSU's acclaimed Chemistry Professor Alan Marshall discusses his latest awards from the New York Section of the American Chemical Society and Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, and the distinguished career that led to them. Marshall co-invented and continues to develop Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry, a revolutionary chemical analysis technique.
07/29/2011 - Research in Action!: Habitat Tracker
How do you capture the great wonder of nature in a tiny mobile device? Well, Florida State University researchers are figuring that out in hopes of inspiring a new generation of young people to explore the world of science.
07/27/2011 - Florida State mouse hunt results in evolutionary discovery
Florida State University Biologist Scott Steppan has spent the last decade playing an exhaustive game of cat and mouse--Steppan and his colleagues being the cat, and the mouse being, well, mice. He and his colleagues have classified seven new field mouse species in a small area on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The findings reveal new insights into the great amount of biodiversity on this planet, and have implications for the future discovery of new species of mammals.
07/25/2011 - Florida State News Roundup
We start off the week with some front-pagers out of Florida State University.
07/22/2011 - Research In Action!: Aggressive Mosquitofish
It's a gladiatorial conflict--no holds barred, biting and clashing takes place before our eyes in a glass coliseum. It’s fish versus fish, and only one can leave this tank the victor…
In this episode of our Research In Action! series, we go inside the lab of doctoral student Brittany Kraft to understand her interest in the aggression of Mosquitofish.