August 2021

Every summer, communities across the country are threatened by wildfires. To help firefighters and land managers mitigate the destructiveness of fires, one of the tools they use is modeling software that predicts what a fire is likely to do next. Bryan Quaife, an assistant professor in the Florida State University Department of Scientific Computing and a faculty associate in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute at FSU, studies fire modeling and fire dynamics.

A Florida State University graduate student and two recent graduates are recipients of research scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Fulbright awards will provide funding for each recipient to conduct research projects abroad this upcoming year.

New research from Florida State University and Rice University is providing a better estimate of the amount of carbon in the Earth’s outer core, and the work suggests the core could be the planet’s largest reservoir of that element.

FSU associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry Eugene DePrince will lead the project team, which includes collaborators from Virginia Tech, University of Washington, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  

Researchers from the Florida State University Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science have found that wave wash-over can pose a significant threat to sea turtle nests, with wave exposure potentially impacting egg incubation and hatchling productivity.

Florida State University opened a new chapter in its history Monday as Richard McCullough began his tenure as the university’s 16th president. McCullough, who served as vice provost for research at Harvard University since 2012, will look to build upon a string of successes that have bolstered Florida State’s national reputation.

Getting a full understanding of how genes are regulated is a major goal of scientists worldwide. Now, a Florida State University professor and his research partners have developed a technique that can map out nearly all of the likely regulatory switches across a genome.

The National Science Foundation awarded a Florida State University professor a $410,000 grant to create a software tool designed to help scientists make more accurate predictions regarding populations of endangered or commercially exploited animal species.

Florida State University Professor of History Kurt Piehler is the director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. He is available to comment on the Atlantic Charter, how it shaped post-WWII history and its effect on the relationship between the U.S. and the United Kingdom.