August 2021

A researcher in the Florida State University Department of Computer Science has received an Amazon Research Award to develop automated methods to catch software bugs. Grigory Fedyukovich, an assistant professor of computer science, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded $60,000 to continue work on automating formal verification of software — the source code analysis of programs to identify bugs or prove the absence of bugs.

Twenty of these graduates represent departments within the College of Arts and Sciences, including biological science; computational science; earth, ocean and atmospheric science; English; modern languages and linguistics; neuroscience; philosophy; and psychology.

A project to develop better solar cells, a new treatment for delivering medicine to the brain and a method for detecting viral and genetic mutations were among the projects that received funding from a Florida State University program that helps researchers develop their academic work into commercial enterprises.

Tanya Peres is an associate professor in the Florida State University Department of Anthropology, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Peres has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at FSU since 2015 and serves as the department’s graduate program director. Peres is a registered professional archaeologist and has two decades of lab and field experience.

Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the Permian period, more than 96 percent of the planet’s marine species and 70 percent of its terrestrial life suddenly went extinct. It was the largest extinction in Earth’s history.

Florida State University officials broke ground Monday on an $88 million building that will serve as a collaborative space for researchers from a variety of fields focused on creating and advancing new materials.

Johanna Marquez Diaz is a senior majoring in behavioral neuroscience in the FSU Program in Neuroscience and minoring in chemistry, both programs that are part of the College of Arts and Sciences.