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XPRIZE Foundation founder to be featured at Power Forward event

Published: | 9:23 am | Posted in: University News

An international pioneer in innovation and commercial space travel will be the featured speaker at the annual Power Forward speaker series. Peter Diamandis, founder and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, will speak on Feb. 4 at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State University in an event organized by First Commerce Credit Union and […]

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Electrical systems researcher joining Center for Advanced Power Systems

Published: | 2:55 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

An international expert in the field of power systems and electronics will join Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems. Gian Carlo Montanari was a professor at University of Bologna for 35 years and has established himself in the field of solid insulating materials, power quality and power systems design and power electronics. “We […]

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FSU names community advisory board for Apalachicola Bay oyster project

Published: | 10:59 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Florida State University has assembled a 23-member community advisory board to help guide researchers as they embark on an ambitious 10-year initiative to restore Apalachicola Bay and revive the region’s imperiled oyster industry. “Appointing a board of community members is an important first step in the work FSU researchers will be doing to develop a […]

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FSU and UF receive $29 million to speed discoveries leading to better health

Published: | 12:24 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, in partnership with Florida State University, has been awarded $29 million to speed research discoveries that will lead to improved health for people living in the nation’s third-largest state. UF and FSU will expand their research partnership with the five-year award, which is funded by the […]

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Researchers awarded $233.6 million, breaking FSU’s single-year funding record

Published: | 3:32 pm | Posted in: News, University News

Florida State University researchers received a record level of funding from federal, state and private sources in the 2019 fiscal year, bringing in $233.6 million to the university to support investigations into areas such as health sciences, high energy physics and marine biology. This is a $7 million increase over the prior fiscal year. “Florida […]

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Moving translational research forward: Noted scientist joins College of Medicine faculty

Published: | 12:54 pm | Posted in: University News

Award-winning biological chemist Zucai Suo, whose discoveries helped the development of two blockbuster antiviral drugs, has joined the Florida State University College of Medicine as Eminent Professor and the Dorian and John Blackmon Endowed Chair in Translational Research. His laboratory’s new ground-floor home at the medical school marks a figurative and literal expansion of the […]

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FSU welcomes National Science Foundation director to campus

Published: | 3:56 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology, University News

Florida State University welcomed National Science Foundation Director France Córdova to campus this week for a tour of research facilities and meetings with students, faculty and state political leaders. “We’re honored that Director Córdova made time to visit us here at Florida State and to see the great work being done on campus that her […]

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Top nursing researcher to create center for health equity of Native American, indigenous people

Published: | 10:00 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

A leading educator, researcher and global advocate of culturally competent healthcare for Native Americans and indigenous populations has joined the faculty at Florida State University’s College of Nursing. John Lowe, a Cherokee Native American tribal member and one of only 20 Native American nurses in the United States who has a doctoral degree, is the […]

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