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FSU expert: Business professor available to discuss impact of workforce changes at Twitter

Published: November 22, 2022 | 2:53 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

For several weeks, Twitter has been in the news amid billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover. Mass layoffs and resignations have been reported following Musk’s acquisition of the company. The reports prompted many Twitter users to suggest that the social media platform could cease to exist in the future. “It will be interesting to see how this […]

FSU expert: Lack of crypto regulation leads to FTX-type ‘failure stories’

Published: November 14, 2022 | 4:17 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Florida State University Associate Professor Guangzhi Shang characterized the cryptocurrency industry as the “Wild West of the financial markets.” “And I think it’s going to remain this way for at least three to five years,” he said. Shang, a cryptocurrency expert in Florida State University’s College of Business, made his comments Monday as news about […]

FSU faculty available to speak for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Published: October 10, 2022 | 1:11 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

From left, Lynn Panton, professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences, and Qing Xiang “Amy” Sang, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. (Florida State University)

More than 264,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the United States. Although deaths from breast cancer have declined over time, it remains the second-leading cause of cancer death among women. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to focus on the impact of this disease. Florida State University faculty are […]

FSU faculty available to comment on aftermath of Hurricane Ian

Published: October 5, 2022 | 1:50 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in its wake, and communities in Florida and elsewhere are working to rebuild in the aftermath. Florida State University faculty are available to speak to media covering post-storm recovery efforts. COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Brad Schmidt, professor, Department of Psychology schmidt@psy.fsu.edu Schmidt researches the nature, causes, treatment and prevention of […]

FSU expert: Third consecutive La Niña could bring more hurricanes

Published: September 20, 2022 | 8:42 am | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Meteorologists predict current La Niña conditions will persist this year through a third consecutive winter, a situation that usually brings a more active late hurricane season, followed by a dry and warm fall and winter across Florida. La Niña is the popular name for a phase of what meteorologists call the “El Niño-Southern Oscillation,” or […]

FSU geologist available to discuss earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast

Published: September 19, 2022 | 4:01 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Mexico is dealing with the fallout of a powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred near the Pacific coast on the anniversary of two previous tremors. Earthquakes occurred on Sept. 19 in both 1985 and 2017 in Mexico, killing thousands of people. Florida State University Professor of Geology James Tull is available to speak with reporters […]

FSU expert available to discuss student debt forgiveness and college affordability

Published: August 24, 2022 | 5:19 pm | Posted in: Education & Society, Expert Pitches

Lara Perez-Felkner, an associate professor in the College of Education at Florida State University, is available to discuss President Joe Biden’s announcement Wednesday that he will forgive $10,000 in federal student debt for many borrowers and will cancel up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. Perez-Felkner studies how social contexts influence students’ college and […]

FSU expert: Parents, schools can help children with math learning, anxiety

Published: August 24, 2022 | 9:01 am | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Across the country, students are starting a new school year. For many students, their return to math class comes with anxiety and frustration. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Florida State University Associate Professor Robert C. Schoen studies how to improve mathematics teaching and learning at the elementary and secondary school levels. He […]

FSU experts available to discuss monkeypox

Published: August 10, 2022 | 12:52 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Alan Rowan, teaching professor in the Department of Public Health. Rowan played a lead role for the Florida Department of Health during the 2003 U.S. monkeypox outbreak.

As the rate of monkeypox infections continues to grow, a pandemic-weary public again finds itself with questions swirling. The federal government has declared monkeypox a public health emergency and has made vaccines in its strategic national stockpile available for national distribution. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has said the virus spreads mostly through close, […]

FSU expert: ‘Japan has not been immune to political violence’

Published: July 8, 2022 | 4:42 pm | Posted in: Education & Society, Expert Pitches, University News

The assassination Friday of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe happened in a country that boasts exceptionally low levels of violent crime. But Abe’s murder by a gunman in Nara, a city near Osaka and Kyoto, prompted recollection of a time when political violence ran rampant in Japan. “From a historical standpoint, Japan has not […]

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