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Freshmen try service before class
A group of 42 incoming freshmen participate in Florida State University's 2011 Service Leadership Seminar. The new students share in a week of community service projects before fall classes begin.
FSU reCycles
Florida State University's reCycle program is the brain child of FSU honors student Sandy Simmons. With the help of university administrators, Simmons successfully changed wording of state statute to allow bikes abandoned on Florida’s public university campuses to be repaired — and ultimately rented.
Future docs don the white coats
College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty discusses the college’s annual White Coat Ceremony, which welcomed 119 first-year students into the medical profession this year.
FSU Summer Commencement Ceremony 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.
Bea Awoniyi honored for service to students with disabilities
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.
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.
Materials firm funds doctoral education
Florida State University graduate student Erin Phillips is announced as the first recipient of the Cytec Engineered Materials Doctoral Fellowship for Advanced Composite Studies. The fellowship is a result of a new partnership between Cytec Industries Inc. and Florida State University.
FSU and Warrick Dunn begin a new chapter
FSU's College of Communication & Information and the School of Library & Information Studies team up with the Warrick Dunn Family Foundation to provide home libraries for Homes for the Holidaysrecipients.
FAFSA crucial for financial aid
Darryl Marshall discusses the importance and ease of completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Next gen spacecraft lands at Challenger Learning Center
Visitors inspect the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle outside the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee. Orion is NASA's chosen craft to carry humans into deep space following the space shuttle program. The Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee is a K-12 outreach facility of the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering.