Florida State University awarded honors medallions to 27 high-achieving graduates during a virtual ceremony on Thursday, July 30. The FSU Honors Program supports the efforts and talents of the university’s most intellectually curious students who have the potential, dedication and drive for creating change.
Florida State University welcomed 17 new inductees into its prestigious Garnet & Gold Scholar Society this summer. Established in 2010, the Garnet & Gold Scholar Society facilitates student involvement and recognizes undergraduate students who excel within and beyond the classroom in at least three of five areas: international experience, internship, leadership, research and service.
This summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover mission will begin its exploration of Mars, gathering valuable data that will help scientists understand our neighboring planet. Once on Mars, the rover will search for signs of ancient microscopic life and collect data about the planet’s geology and climate.
Florida State University researchers have new insight into the tiny packages that cells use to move molecules, a structure that is key to cellular metabolism, drug delivery and more. Their research uncovered more about the proteins that form the outer structure of those cellular packages. The work was published in the journal Science Advances.
Brooke Sabin is a Spring 2020 graduate of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, part of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University. At FSU, she was a member of the Kennemur Research Group, a polymer chemistry research team advised by associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry Justin Kennemur. Sabin was recently awarded the Grinter Fellowship from the University of Florida Graduate School to aid in her pursuit of a doctoral degree.
Through a collaborative effort with faculty members across the college, we’ve created a video honoring each of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Class of 2020 summer graduates by name. The video is organized by department, degree type (doctorates, master's, bachelor's) and then alphabetically by last name. Congratulations, Class of 2020!
In recent decades, the decline of living hard coral on reefs around the world has raised concerns among marine experts. For years, the presumption was that decline signaled that an entire reef’s future was threatened. A study by Florida State University researchers shows that might not always be the case. While a complement of healthy coral is still preferred, dead or dying coral might not be fatal for an entire reef.
A Florida State University-produced documentary will explore the contributions of a Women’s Army Corps photographer during World War II. “Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Photographer Goes to War” uses unpublished military photographs and personal correspondence from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State, as well as expert and family interviews, to tell the story of Mansfield’s experiences during the war.
The mosaic images in this cover artwork represent the remote nature of FSU’s spring and summer semesters and the virtual events that took the place of time-honored traditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Together the images form an iconic piece of the university’s identity and demonstrate that however separate and at whatever distance, we are still FSU. Photo illustration by Tom Morgan. Original photo courtesy FSU Photography Services/Bill Lax. Mosaic photos courtesy Florida State College of Arts and Sciences and other FSU sources.
It was a surprising thing to see on the otherwise lifeless peak of a South American volcano — a mouse, specifically a yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, or Phyllotis xanthopygus, scurrying among the rocks on the summit. The find was especially startling because the mouse was living at an elevation of 22,100 feet, a higher elevation than scientists had ever observed mammals living at previously. There, on the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina, the animal had managed to make a home in an unforgiving landscape.
