Arts & Humanities

Florida State University interior design student Bridget Dunn, 21, envisions a new clinic for Tallahassee’s underprivileged women set in a historic downtown office building that was once a church—and it’s all green. Dunn’s sustainable or "green" re-design won’t actually be taking material form, but her computer-aided rendering—blending environmentally friendly materials with historical integrity—has beat out […]

A new comprehensive early intervention program of vocabulary instruction developed at Florida State University may help young children who are at risk for delays in reading, language and academic development. Howard Goldstein, the Donald M. Baer Professor and chair of the communication disorders department, received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s […]

The first high-level public discussion of how science is taught in public schools—in light of the recent federal court ruling on the intelligent-design challenge in Dover, Pa.—will be conducted next month by a nationally known panel of scholars at Florida State University. "Keeping Science and Religion Separate in Schools: The Vigil After Dover," is scheduled […]

Stan Marshall, president of Florida State University from 1969-76, reports on turbulent years at FSU in his new book, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University. Marshall is the first to profile a major southern university during a time marked by racial and political tension. Readers journey through events that […]

Florida State University Dean of Undergraduate Studies Karen Laughlin has announced the appointment of Professor of English Helen Burke as the new director of the FSU Honors Program. A prize-winning author whose areas of expertise include 18th century Irish and English theater and literature, Burke succeeds physics Professor Paul Cottle, who officially concludes his prolific […]

This summer, Nancy Thomson de Grummond is heading back to Italy—just as she has done nearly ever year since 1983. Although she will be spending plenty of time in the sun, this is no vacation: De Grummond, the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics at Florida State University, will be leading another group of FSU […]

In the winning tradition of Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts—best known as The Film School—three of its recent graduates and a pair of short films they produced as FSU students have earned top awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS). The trio will claim their prizes […]

Florida State University will host the "31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film" Feb. 2-5, 2006. This year’s event will welcome eminent scholars and filmmakers from around the world as it examines what it means to document trauma or terror under extraordinary historical conditions. The conference—"Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror"—will kick off Thursday, Feb. 2, at […]

Noted Sarasota art collector and philanthropist Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt will fund the creation of the "Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Gallery of Asian Art" at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, part of a gift to Florida State University that is expected to exceed a total value of $50 million. Wall-Apelt’s multi-tiered gift is the […]

FSU’s Francis Eppes Professor of Dance Suzanne Farrell has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary and influential ballerinas of the late-20th century, and on Dec. 3 and 4 in Washington, D.C., her contributions to the performing arts and American culture were rewarded with 2005 Kennedy Center Honors. The world-renowned prima ballerinashared the […]

The Directors Guild of America has announced its 2005 Student Filmmakers Awards for African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and women—and Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts will take home half of them. Chosen from among emerging filmmakers at select universities nationwide, two recent FSU graduates and one current undergraduate of […]

From country to jazz, from Napoleon to Nelson, the eighth season of Seven Days of Opening Nights, Feb. 16-28, 2006, offers a spectacular array of world-renowned artists and performers. The annual festival is produced by Florida State University and sponsored by a host of educational and community partners. Live music performances include American icon Willie […]