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Undergraduates show off creativity, scientific know-how in annual research showcase

Published: October 13, 2017 | 8:09 am | Posted in: Students & Campus Life, University News

Florida State University research was on full display last week. But the researchers weren’t faculty members – they were undergraduate students. The Fall Showcase of Undergraduate Research was held Oct. 2 at the Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center. During the symposium, students had the opportunity to present their summer research findings funded […]

ACC Smithsonian festival to showcase FSU innovators

Published: October 12, 2017 | 9:46 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Florida State University students and researchers will be front and center for the first ACCelerate Festival, a three-day celebration in the nation’s capital of creative research at the nexus of science, engineering, arts and design. Organized by Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the festival runs Oct. 13-15 at the National […]

Smallest marine species may better weather climate change effects

Published: October 10, 2017 | 3:17 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Jeroen Ingels, a researcher at the FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory

Rising levels of carbon dioxide may have little effect on the smallest organisms that live in ocean sediment, according to a new study by a Florida State University researcher. FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory scientist Jeroen Ingels and a team of researchers found that communities of microscopic organisms called meiofauna don’t change much when faced […]

FSU researchers receive $1.43M grant to study medical applications of synthetic chemistry

Published: October 9, 2017 | 11:33 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

James Frederich, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Florida State University scientists have been awarded a $1.43 million grant to support their work using synthetic chemistry to push the boundaries of biomedical research. The funds, awarded by the National Institutes of Health, will aid researchers as they explore the potential of fully synthetic natural products to tweak critical interactions between protein molecules — […]

FSU welcomes local congressman to campus

Published: October 8, 2017 | 8:54 am | Posted in: University News

U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn toured the FSU-based National High Magnetic Field Laboratory with FSU Vice President for Research and Gary K. Ostrander and MagLab Deputy Director Eric Palm. (FSU Photography Services)

Florida State University welcomed U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn to the Florida State University campus Friday to tour university research facilities and learn more about the university’s roughly $200 million per year research enterprise. “We appreciate that Congressman Dunn made time to visit us at Florida State and see the great research taking place on our […]

FSU researcher looking for clues about schizophrenia with NIH grant

Published: October 6, 2017 | 10:55 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Yi Zhou, associate professor of biomedical sciences at FSU’s College of Medicine

A Florida State University researcher has received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study potential molecular therapies for schizophrenia. The human brain’s 10 billion nerve cells communicate by transmitting signals through tiny connections known as synapses. Disruptions in those transmissions are an underlying cause of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric […]

Florida State wins record NIH funding

Published: October 4, 2017 | 4:28 pm | Posted in: University News

Florida State University researchers have brought in record funding of $35.8 million from the National Institutes of Health, more than double the amount the university received five years ago. It is also one of the highest amounts won by any Florida research institution or university during the 2017 federal fiscal year. “This is a great […]

MagLab receives $5.8M to develop biomedical technology

Published: October 4, 2017 | 10:46 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

From left: FSU Earl Freiden Professor of Chemistry Tim Cross, UF Professor Joanna Long and MagLab Research Faculty William Brey.

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will be home to a new National Institutes of Health Biomedical Technology Resource Center that will develop unique instrumentation for innovative biomedical work in high magnetic fields to combat diseases like Alzheimer’s and tuberculosis. To create the center, the National MagLab will receive a $5.8 million […]

Breaking the rules: Heavy chemical elements alter theory of quantum mechanics

Published: October 3, 2017 | 9:46 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, the Gregory R. Choppin Professor of Chemistry

A series of complicated experiments involving one of the least understood elements of the Periodic Table has turned some long-held tenets of the scientific world upside down. Florida State University researchers found that the theory of quantum mechanics does not adequately explain how the heaviest and rarest elements found at the end of the table […]

$3M grant supports FSU College of Medicine effort to help children with toxic stress

Published: September 27, 2017 | 10:22 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Project Director Elena Reyes, the College of Medicine’s regional director for Southwest Florida.

The Florida State University College of Medicine has been awarded a $3 million grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) with a goal of illuminating the path to effective behavioral and physical health treatment for the children of rural and migrant farmworkers. The five-year grant also recognizes the medical school’s […]

Physics team nets $4.5M NSF grant to further nuclear physics research

Published: September 21, 2017 | 2:12 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Back row: Professors Samuel Tabor, Mark Riley, Paul Cottle, research faculty Anthony Frawley and Professor Emeritus Kirby Kemper. Front: Professor Ingo Wiedenhoever and Assistant Professor Sergio Almaraz-Calderon.

A team of Florida State University physicists has won a $4.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to probe deeper into the world of nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. Physics Professors Ingo Wiedenhoever, Paul Cottle, Mark Riley, Samuel Tabor, Assistant Professor Sergio Almaraz-Calderon and research faculty Anthony Frawley operate the John D. Fox Superconducting […]

Personality changes don’t precede clinical onset of Alzheimer’s, FSU study shows

Published: September 20, 2017 | 12:53 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Antonio Terracciano, associate professor at the FSU College of Medicine

For years, scientists and physicians have been debating whether personality and behavior changes might appear prior to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Now, the findings of a new and comprehensive study from FSU College of Medicine Associate Professor Antonio Terracciano and colleagues, published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, has found no […]

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