The Big Story

Florida State University alumna Nancy McKay, now CEO of Nest Fragrances, delivered the commencement address Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. President John Thrasher presided over the ceremony as the university awarded degrees to nearly 2,500 graduating students. View the newsletter.

Members of the successful Apollo space program are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp. View the newsletter.

FSU will receive $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to create a new Energy Frontier Research Center focused on accelerating scientific efforts needed to support nuclear waste cleanup. The center will be led by chemistry professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt and will focus on developing technologies for recycling nuclear fuel and cleaning up Cold War-era weapon production sites. […]

Florida State University has been ranked No. 44 among the nation’s public universities in Forbes’ recent Top Colleges ranking, up from No. 50 in 2015. View the newsletter.  

Fifteen years after enrolling its first class, the Florida State University College of Medicine has emerged as one of the nation’s most diverse medical schools, ranked in the top six for enrollment of both black and Hispanic students by the Association of American Medical Colleges. View the newsletter.

A group of 10 Florida State University graduate students and recent alumni will study or teach English around the world during the 2016-2017 academic year as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. View the newsletter.

Eight Florida State students are traveling abroad to bolster global relations through language thanks to prestigious national scholarships. View the newsletter.

The Florida State baseball team cruised through the NCAA Tallahassee Regional,blasting six home runs in 18-6 win over South Alabama in the regional final Sunday, to advance to the NCAA Super Regional round. The Seminoles will travel to Gainesville this weekend to face No. 1 Florida with a trip to the College World Series on […]

The Seminoles advanced to the Women’s College World Series for the second time in three years and the ninth time in program history with a series victory over Utah Saturday afternoon. FSU will play Georgia at noon Thursday, June 2, in its first game of the eight-team, double-elimination bracket in Oklahoma City.

The FSU College of Medicine hooded 119 new medical doctors — including the 1,000th graduate of the college — at a commencement ceremony Saturday at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. The college now has 1,029 alumni.

The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in the Aucilla River — about 45 minutes from Tallahassee — shows that humans settled the southeastern United States as much as 1,500 years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a research team led by FSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessi Halligan. The site is now […]

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida State University has been recognized for its excellence with a $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco. The highly competitive award, attained only by the elite institutions of the 119 OLLIs throughout the country, required meeting stringent criteria, including membership of more than 1,000, […]