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Professors’ odor-scrubbing “bio-filters” will reduce greenhouse gasses

Published: August 18, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Thanks to old tires, broken glass and yard debris, Leon County’s Solid Waste Facility (Landfill) soon will emit less odor, and waste disposal will be more environmentally friendly. Florida State University oceanography Professor Jeff Chanton and Florida A & M University/FSU College of Engineering Assistant Professor Tarek Abichou plan to recycle the waste materials into […]

Biomedical grant may lead to quicker detection of heart attacks

Published: August 11, 2005 | 1:00 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

When diagnosing and treating a heart attack, a few minutes can spell the difference between life and death. Now, researchers have received a grant that will help them produce a medical device that can cut minutes or even hours off the time it takes to begin life-saving treatment. The Florida Department of Health has announced […]

It’s true: FSU student’s account of life as a soldier in Iraq is a best seller

Published: August 11, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Students & Campus Life

Florida State University student John Crawford thought he was beginning a new chapter in his life when he got married in 2002, but his story took a dramatic turn when he learned on his honeymoon that his Florida National Guard unit would be deployed to Iraq. What followed was 12 months patrolling the streets of […]

Florida State University responds to NCAA decision banning use of Native American symbols

Published: August 5, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: University News

FSU President T.K. Wetherell has issued the following statement in response to action August 5 by the National Collegiate Athletic Association banning the use of American Indian mascots during NCAA championship games. In taking the action, the NCAA deemed FSU’s use of the Seminole name and symbols as “hostile or abusive,” despite the recent formal […]

FSU oceanography professor wins international honor

Published: August 1, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

With research ranging from a new explanation for the parting of the Red Sea during the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt to a prediction that the Three Gorges Dam in China could increase air temperatures over Japan, Doron Nof, Fridtjof Nansen Professor of Oceanography at FSU, has won the prized European Geosciences Union (EGU) Fridtjof Nansen […]

World-record magnet to pull in scientific breakthroughs

Published: July 29, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has marked a major scientific leap forward with the unveiling of a new, world-record magnet. This new, spectacularly precise magnet, displayed during a commissioning ceremony on July 28, is expected to yield important discoveries in the fields of chemical and biomedical research. The laboratory, established by the National Science […]

FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction

Published: July 25, 2005 | 1:00 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

The North Atlantic right whale’s future looks grim if the current mortality rates continue, according to Florida State University assistant professor of oceanography Douglas Nowacek and a group of fellow scientists from across the nation. They have co-authored a paper, “North Atlantic Right Whales in Crisis,” that appears in the July 22 edition of the […]

FSU food scientist is lead scholar in trade negotiations with China

Published: July 25, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Education & Society, Science & Technology

After mad cow disease was twice detected in North American livestock in 2003, The People’s Republic of China banned imports of all U.S. meat by-products. The cost to U.S. industry: 25 percent of meat-bone-meal (MBM) exports and almost $30 million a year. A possible key to resumption of that once-burgeoning trade: FloridaState University researcher Yun-Hwa […]

Creative writing program makes headlines

Published: July 22, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Creative writing teachers at Florida State University are using lots of their own creativity to inspire students enrolled in a program that has received a stream of national awards and recognition over the past five years. A recent article in the Palm Beach Post focuses on how Pulitzer-Prize-winning Professor Robert Olen Butler and other faculty […]

Miniature circus finds home at FSU’s Ringling Museum

Published: July 21, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Tiny fully equipped train cars, historic wagons, a four-foot-high big top, 500 circus animals and thousands of other items comprising a 3,800-square-foot, 1/16th scale model three-ring circus are being unpacked and installed at the Tibbals Learning Center. Housed at the Ringling Circus Museum, on the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, […]

FSU Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research helps cut crime in all 50 states

Published: July 13, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Business, Law & Policy

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, every year for the past 10 the victim costs of crime in America have exceeded $450 billion, a staggering figure that doesn’t calculate the human misery or the dollars needed to run the nation’s juvenile and adult justice systems. Each year, 600,000 prisoners are released; within three, roughly […]

FSU to assist with search for Alabama teen in Aruba

Published: July 8, 2005 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Business, Law & Policy

A special unit of Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice has been asked to assist with search and recovery efforts in the case of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. The Underwater Crime Scene Investigation (UCSI) program, based at FSU’s Panama City campus, received the request for assistance from the prime minister of […]

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