Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.
Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Kadir Kozan, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral students Chaewon Kim, Veronica Brewer, Alex Barrett and Jaesung Hur won third place at the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction’s competition for instructor resources.
Azat Gundogan, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) won the Pediatric Poster Award at the 2024 American Transplant Congress.
Christopher Okonkwo, Ph.D. (Department of English) was selected as a finalist for the 2024 African Literature Association’s Best Scholarly Book Award for his book “Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison.”
Karen Works, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded an AnitaB.org Advancing Inclusion Faculty Scholarship to virtually attend the Grace Hopper Celebration 2024.
Robert Romanchuk, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) was awarded the Hellenic Research Fellowship from the University Library at California State University in Sacramento.
Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was a co-recipient of the 2024 National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education Engaged Scholar Program Award.
Christopher Okonkwo, Ph.D. (Department of English) was invited to join the editorial board of research in African Literatures, the most prestigious journal in African literature.
Damon Andrew, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the 2024 Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award from the North American Society for Sport Management.
Chuck Ehrhardt, J.D. (College of Law) received the 2024 Law Faculty/Administrator Professionalism Award presented by The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism.
Jie Chen, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) has been selected as a Travel Awardee for the Pain and Research Network Annual Meeting 2024.
Maicon Landim-Vieira, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) received a Travel Award for the Heart Rhythm Society conference in Boston.
Ann Centner, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) was one of six finalists for the Postdoctoral Award Competition at the annual American Society for Nutrition conference.
James Du, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named a North American Society for Sport Management Research Fellow.
Aline Dort, MS, Ed.S., CCC (The Career Center) earned the Certified Career Counselor credential through the National Career Development Association credentialing body.
Mackenzie Fisher, MS, Ed.S., NCC, CCC (The Career Center) earned the Certified Career Counselor credential through the National Career Development Association and completed the CACREP accredited FSU Career Counseling M.S./Ed.S. degree. She also earned The National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential and passed the National Counselor Examination (NCE).
Casey D. Xavier Hall, MPH, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) was selected as a scholar for program years 2024-2027 with the Sustained Training in Aging & HIV Research Program at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, PHNA-BC, CNE (College of Nursing) was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
GRANTS
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) was awarded a $125,000 grant from the Florida Institute for Child Welfare for her research project “The Caregiver Journey: An In-Depth, Multiple-Case Study of Families’ Experiences with Accessing Residential Care for Their Children with High Level Needs.”
Weikuan Yu, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project on deep learning applications, “CropDL – Scheduling and Checkpoint/Restart Support for Deep Learning Applications on HPC Clusters.”
Guang Wang, Ph.D. and Weikuan Yu, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Collaborative Research: Frameworks: MobilityNet: A Trustworthy CI Emulation Tool for Cross-Domain Mobility Data Generation and Sharing towards Multidisciplinary Innovations.”
Lenore McWey, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) received $320,710 from the Florida Institute for Child Welfare for their longitudinal study “Understanding Safety Nets & Service Use Among Child Welfare System -Involved Caregivers to Improve Service Provision: A Mixed Methods Examination.”
Rylan Douthett, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Kathryn Keane, DNP, RN, PCCN, CNE, Jared Miller, Ph.D., Erik Salsgiver, DNP, MSM, APRN, FNP-BC, and Steven Palazzo, Ph.D., MN, RN, CNE, ANEF (College of Nursing) received part of a $5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to educate and train health care workers to provide age-friendly and dementia-friendly care.
LeeAnn Barfield, Ph.D-c., DNP, AG-ACNP, APRN, CNE, and Marsha Hartline, DNP, RN, CNML, CNE (College of Nursing) received a grant from the Department of Health and HRSA to fund the Nurse Faculty Loan Program at Florida State University.
Michael Ormsbee, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Elisa Angeles (FSU Athletics) and alumnus Kieran Paterson were awarded a $93,864 grant from Dairy Management Inc. for their project “The Effect of Pre-sleep Milk-derived Protein to Support Sleep Quality and Recovery in Elite Female Athletes.”
BYLINES
Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article, “A Social-Ecological Perspective on Understanding Facilitators to Access Primary Health Care Services among Ethiopian Immigrant Women in the United States” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Qiuchang Katy Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “I’m Part of Something That Matters”: Exploring What Older Adults Value Through Their Engagement in Age-Friendly Community Initiatives” published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Ashley Krutz-Ordner, MA (Office of the Provost) co-authored the chapter “Building the Partnership: Best Practices for Engaging Counsel” published by the Forum on Education Abroad in the book “Convergence of Litigation, Policy, and Standards: Building the Informed Practitioner in Education Abroad Risk Management”.
Lauren Stanley, Ph.D., Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D., (College of Social Work) Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and Sarah O’Dell, MSW (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-authored “Predictor Importance of Childhood Trauma to Early Literacy Skills in Kindergarteners” published in the University of Chicago Press Journals.
Ashley Edwards, Ph.D., Nancy Merecin, M.Ed. (Florida Center for Reading Research) and Nicolle Patton Terry, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “African American Preschoolers’ Performance on Norm-Referenced Language Assessments: Examining the Effect of Dialect Density and the Use of Scoring Modifications” published in the journal American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Wire.
Andrea De Giorgi, Ph.D. (Department of Classics) authored the book “Antioch on the Orontes History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture” published by Cambridge University Press.
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) published the book “The Apocrypha: A Guide,” available for pre-order from Oxford University Press. He also published the article “Chapter 11 Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity” in “The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran.”
Robert Reardon, Ph.D. (The Career Center) co-authored the book “Holland’s RIASEC Hexagon: A Paradigm for Life and Work Decisions” published by Florida State Open Publishing.
Svenja Wolf, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Everything is Cool when You’re Part of a Team? The Effects of Outcome Interdependence on Appraisal, Emotions, and Performance under Pressure” published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “The Impact of Missed Scheduled Visits on Health Outcomes Among Youth with HIV in Alabama” published by the Open Forum for Infectious Diseases.
Mia Newlin-Bradner, Ph.D., MSN, RN and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “Re-Evaluating the Relationship Between Youth with HIV and BMI in an Age of Increasing Rates of Overweight and Obese Youth” published by BMC Research Notes.
Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing) co-authored “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” published by the Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America.
Michael Nair-Collins, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) authored “Organismal Superposition and Death” published in the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. He also authored “There is Only One Sphere of Morality” published in the American Journal of Bioethics and co-authored “The Relationship Between Manifestation of Diabetes Insipidus and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Brain Death: Implications Require Clarification” published in the journal Critical Care Medicine.
Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and recent doctoral graduate Dan He co-authored “Educators’ Invisible Labour: A Systematic Review” published in Review of Education.
Javier Stanziola, Ph.D. (FSU Republic of Panama) published “The Sandbox Programme in Panama: ‘Now I Know What to do with My Voice’” in the Creative Industries Journal in June 2024.
Adam Edmond Tratner, Ph.D. (FSU Republic of Panama) co-authored and published the article “Motivations for Endogamous Relationship Preferences” in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Maicon Landim-Vieira, Ph.D., Stephen Chelko, Ph.D., Ann M. Centner, Ph.D., Waleed Farra, Elisa N. Cannon, Morgan Engel (College of Medicine) and doctoral student Emily Shiel published “NFKB Signaling Drives Myocardial Injury via CCR2+ Macrophages in a Preclinical Model of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy” in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Debra Cole, Ed.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Music Therapy as Adjunctive Treatment in Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Systematic Review” published in the journal Children.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “Validity of the Quality Standards Assessment for Children’s Residential Care” at the Association of Children’s Residential and Community Services’ 68th Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Katrina Boone, MSW and Keithen Mathis, MSW (College of Social Work) presented “The Road to Professional Practice: Field Educators Preparing Interns to Engage a Multi-Cultural Community” at the National Association of Social Workers, Florida Chapter Annual Conference in Orlando.
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral student Esaa Mohammad Sabti Samarah co-authored and presented “Mapping the Caregiver Journey: A Narrative Review of Experiences of Caregivers of Children in Residential Care” at the Association of Children’s Residential and Community Services’ 68th Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Steve McDowell, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Ashley Krutz-Ordner, MA (Office of the Provost) presented “Navigating Risk Management and Mental Health Abroad: Strategies and Insights” at NAFSA’s Annual Conference in New Orleans.
Don Compton, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Introducing the Developmental English Lexicon Project (d-ELP)” at the 2024 Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation Language, Literacy and Learning Conference.
Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Strive-For-Five Conversations: Building Language Comprehension in Young Children” at IDA Ontario’s Literacy and Learning Conference. She also presented “Strive for Five Conversations to Build Language Comprehension” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Journey to Literacy and Leadership Professional Learning Series” and “Leadership Matters to Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Schools and Classrooms” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. and Julie Baisden, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Tools for Effective Reading and Literacy Instruction” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Julie Baisden, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Using the School Leader’s Literacy Walkthrough Tool to Support Effective Reading and Literacy Instruction” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Kevin Smith, Ed.D. and Laurie Lee, Ed.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Strategies for Effective Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Erin Bush, Ph.D., Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) presented the poster “Rehabilitation of Reading and Writing After Stroke: Clinical Practice and Perspectives of Speech-Language Pathologists” at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii.
Ellen Nimmons, BA (School of Communication Science & Disorders) presented the poster “A Novel Aphasia Literacy Treatment: Preliminary Data from a Case Series Investigation” at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii.
Stephen McDowell, Ph.D. (School of Communication) presented “Navigating Risk Management and Mental Health Abroad: Strategies and Insights” at the NAFSA 2024 conference.
Christopher Constantino, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) served as a keynote speaker at the 2024 World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering with his presentation “Disfluency as an Act of Love.”
Gretchen Stahlman, Ph.D. (School of Information) co-led the workshop “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP): A Dialogue on Science, Public Engagement and Communication” in Washington D.C., funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Don Latham, Ph.D., Melissa Gross, Ph.D. (School of Information) and doctoral candidate Vashalice Kaaba presented at the Children’s Literature Association annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. Latham gave the paper presentation “Miss Pickerell Goes to ChLA: Looking Back at Ellen MacGregor’s Science Fiction for Children,” Gross presented “Bistrategic Popularity: Power and Tyranny in I, Claudia” and Kaaba presented “ReNewbery: A Multidisciplinary Study of Anti-Blackness in Black-Authored Newbery Books and its Implications for Critical Librarianship.”
Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and doctoral student Sunny Park attended the ICA Regional Conference in Dijon, France. Park presented the paper “Food and/in Popular Culture.”
Marcia Kosanovich, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Preparing Young Children for School” and “Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade” at the Summer Literacy Institute.
Mark Zeigler, MS (College of Business) delivered the keynote address for the Florida Association of City and County Administrators’ Annual Convention and spoke at the Derrick Brooks Bunch Business Academy and was the spring luncheon speaker for the FSU Retired Faculty.
Christopher Okonkwo, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented the paper “The Unoka Quintet: The Deft but Delusional Musicians in Achebe, Ekwensi, Emeheta, Nadifa, and Okorafor’s Affiliated Stories” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association in Louisville, Kentucky.
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) presented his paper “Obscured Sources: The Book of Jubilees and its Aramaic Heritage” at the Levitical Priesthood in the Aramaic Levi Document and Related Literature International Conference, hosted by John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin.
Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented “Archival Methodologies Reimagined: Responding to Tomorrow’s Dilemmas” at the 2024 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America.
Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (College of Entrepreneurship) served as a panelist for Transdisciplinary Network for Impact Research and Practice: Enabling Regenerative Futures at the 2024 Principles for Responsible Management Education North America Conference at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Ashley French and Heather French (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Equal Sign Explorations: Strengthening Primary Math Foundations” at the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference. They also presented “So, You Think You Know CPALMS? Come See What’s New…and FREE!” at the Florida Association of Mathematics Supervisors Conference.
Robert Hanna and Kaniesha Clark (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Stepping Stones to Success: Leveraging Algebra Tiles to Make Connections in Mathematics” at the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference in Orlando.
Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Best Practices: Fostering Inclusion, Collaboration, and Teacher Development. Best Practices for Improving Pre-Service Teacher Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” at the Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures conference in Helsinki, Finland.
Bhushan Dahal (Learning Systems Institute) presented the paper “Building for the Future: Exploring the Role of Sustainability-Designed Schools on Student Engagement” at the Social Creatinnovation for the Sustainable Future of Nepal: Networking for Change conference in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Tori Andrews (The Career Center) presented “Maximizing ROI in Employer Relations: Navigating Budgets and Financial Metrics” at the Southern Association of Colleges and Employer annual Employer Relations Summit.
Angela Chong, J.D., Brandon Bowden, Ed.D. and Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of Vice President of Student Affairs) presented “From A, B, to Z – Lessons Learned and Collaborative Approaches to the AVP Position” at the NASPA Region III Summer Symposium.
Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of Vice President of Student Affairs) and Freddy Juarez, M.S. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) presented “Building Community Together: Florida State’s Innovative and Sustainable Model for Fraternity and Sorority Life Engagement and Success” at the NASPA Region III Summer Symposium.
Abbey Hale, M.S. and Jamie Butler, MSW, MPA (The Career Center) presented “Collaborating with Employers on Real-World Challenges to Prepare Students for the Workplace” at the Florida Association of Colleges and Employers annual conference.
Christy Mantzanas (The Career Center) presented “Collaborative Excellence: Unleashing Solutions in Employer Relations Idea-athon” at the Southern Association of Colleges and Employer annual Employer Relations Summit.
Alice Maxwell, M.A. (Division of Student Affairs) presented “Say ‘Hello’ to Florida State University’s Student Success Communications Campaign” at the Student Communications Conference hosted by the Council of Advancement and Support of Education (Europe) in Birmingham, England.
Lauren Scholz, J.D. (College of Law) was one of three panelists that presented “Data Pirates or Data Watchdogs? Private Access to Personal Data” on privacy and cybersecurity at the 2024 Second Circuit Judicial Conference.
Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) presented “A Moderated Mediation Analysis of HIV and Intersectional Stigmas and Antiretroviral Adherence in People Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic” at the Continuum 2024, Puerto Rico.
Nicole Bentze, D.O., (College of Medicine) Katie Nickel, Ed.D. (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) co-presented “Belonging: From ‘in the Moment’ to ‘in the Community’ Using a Museum/School/Hospital Model” at the Academy of Academic Museums and Galleries conference in June.
Vanessa Dennen, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and recent doctoral graduate Dan He presented “University Students, Social Media, and Purposeful Use: Networked Knowledge Activities Across Contexts” at the 14th edition of the International Conference on Networked Learning in May.
Sylvie Naar, Ph.D., Andrea Cheshure, MS, Rebecca Giguere, MPH and Jonathan Morgan (College of Medicine) co-authored and presented “YACHT – Young Adult Community HealthForce Training to Increase HIV Testing among Young Sexual Minority Men in Florida” at the AIDS Institute’s 2024 Florida HIV Community Providers and Researchers conference.
Sylvie Naar, Ph.D., Sara Green, MSW, Grace Sanders and Jonathan Morgan (College of Medicine) co-authored and presented “Scale It Up Connect Repository: Engaging Adolescents and Emerging Adults in Florida in a Youth Learning Health Community” at the AIDS Institute’s 2024 Florida HIV Community Providers and Researchers conference.
Sylvie Naar, Ph.D., Ivan Balan, Ph.D., Rebecca Giguere, MPH, Andrea Cheshure, MS, Sara Green, MSW and Jonathan Morgan (College of Medicine) co-authored and presented “The YACHT Program: Young Adult Centered HealthForce Training to Increase HIV Testing and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Referrals among Young Sexual Minority Men” at the AIDS Institute’s 2024 Florida HIV Community Providers and Researchers conference.
Tarik Dogru (Dr. True), Ph.D. (FSU Valencia) led the seminar on the implications of generative artificial intelligence for the hospitality and tourism industry at the University of Alicante.
Kate Schell (Learning Systems Institute) led a Qualitative Data Coding and Analysis workshop for the Malawi Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice activity in Lilongwe.
SERVICE
Zhe He, Ph.D., Mia Lustria, Ph.D., Balu Bhasuran, Ph.D. (School of Information) and Mafé Brooks (College of Communication and Information) represented FSU to cohost the 12th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Health Informatics with the University of Florida in Orlando, FL, from June 3-6. Zhe He served as Leading General Co-Chair.
Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Faye Jones, Ph.D. (School of Information) led FSU iCamp, a 4-week program that brings over 25 Tallahassee high school students to campus to learn about topics in tech including Python, game design, graphic design and data analysis.
LeeAnn Barfield, Ph.D-c., DNP, AG-ACNP, APRN, CNE (College of Nursing) was appointed to serve on the Florida Nurses Association Board.
Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH (College of Nursing) was elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida.
Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) was elected as a Co-chair of the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Women’s Health State of Science.
April Lovett, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) was appointed to serve on the Tallahassee Working Well Board.
Miguel Negron, MS, (Student-Athlete Academic Services) participated in a panel “Director’s Dialogue: Leading Employees in Today’s World of College Athletics” at the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals convention in Las Vegas.
Alma Littles, M.D. (College of Medicine) completed her term on the Governing Council and as Delegate to the American Medical Association for the Academic Physicians section at the AMA’s annual conference in Chicago.
Stephen Chelko, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) helped coordinate free heart screenings for youth 10-22 through the non-profit Who We Play for, at the Leon County EMS Public Safety Complex, part of the organization’s efforts to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes.
Jing Wang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) was invited by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to serve on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institute of Health.
Sally Karioth, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) served as a teaching faculty for orientation leaders at the International Camp Boggy Creek’s first 2024 session. These camps serve children with over 50 medical conditions, including cancer, HIV/AIDS and severe asthma. Karioth is also part of the panel of experts for the Path from Grief to Grace event hosted by LeMoyne Arts.
Jonathan Fozard, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) was appointed to the Government Technology Modernization Council by Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo.
Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) serves as the Principal Investigator for the United States Agency for International Development Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice Activity in Malawi, which filmed lessons as part of a series of videos to support instruction at Teacher Training Colleges.
Ashely Krutz-Ordner, MA (Office of the Provost) was elected President of Pulse International.
Karen Works, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was elected as the Southeast Regional Representative for the National Board of Directors of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges.
NOTABLE
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) received a multi-year contract from the Texas Department of Family Protective Services as part of the Provider Clinical and Programmatic Support Program to increase the quality of out-of-home services.
Mark Zeigler, MS (College of Business) provided a communication workshop for the National Association of Security Administrators.
Carmen Zachry, Ashley French and Heather French (Learning Systems Institute) attended the Florida Association of Mathematics Supervisors Conference in Orlando to film teachers for the CPALMS Teacher Perspectives video series.
Eugenia Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP-BC, CDE, FAAN (College of Nursing) was selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)-Wharton Executive Leadership Program this August at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Ph.D. and Michelle Therrien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) attended The Future of AAC Research Summit in Arlington, Virginia.
Sydney Martin, M.Ed. (Student Athlete Academic Services) was selected to represent Florida State University at the Women Leaders in Sports Institute for Advancement in Kansas City, Missouri.