John Edgar Browning, a Florida State University alumnus from the Department of English, is a leading international expert on not only the iconic vampire Dracula but also real vampires and the horror genre as a whole.
Florida State University’s Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies will welcome French and Senegalese distinguished scholars and well-known artists for a two-day symposium examining the legacies and culture of Senegal.
Teaching faculty member Anel Brandl is an instructor of Spanish and Linguistics at Florida State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and is the assistant director of the Spanish Basic Language Program, a part of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. She is the core developer of FSU’s Spanish heritage track, the new courses for heritage speakers and learners, and the Spanish for Specific Purposes courses. Brandl is also a founding member of the Spanish Heritage Language Direction Network and has a deep interest in Spanish heritage bilingualism. Her recent work focuses on heritage language maintenance via instruction, and language acquisition and processing in Spanish heritage speakers.
Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University Department of Statistics are teaming up in a National Science Foundation-funded study that could help people perform better in manufacturing and other industries that rely on humans.
A Florida State University alumna is investigating how to prevent vitamin A deficiencies via a National Science Foundation entrepreneurial research fellowship, which enables her to explore how to make staple food crops, like corn, higher in their concentrations of crucial nutrients, including vitamin A.
Nicholas Goodly is a doctoral student pursuing a degree in creative writing through Florida State University's Department of English, part of the College of Arts and Sciences.
To celebrate Disability Employment Awareness Month, Florida State University’s University of Choice organization will host disability advocate Shawn Smith during its seventh annual disability conversation.
When Florida State University Assistant Professor Richard Bono was deciding what part of geology to focus on, he learned about the field of geophysics and geodynamics — the science of how the Earth changes over time.
Rhys Parfitt is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University and is an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies.
While technologies like X-rays allow us to create pictures of the inside of the human body, imaging on a molecular level is much more complicated. Cryogenic electron microscopy, or cryo-EM, allows scientists to reconstruct protein complexes, like viruses and antibodies, in three dimensions at nearly atomic-level resolutions.
