THE BIG STORY

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•  JUNE 5, 2023 •

Three-time FSU alumnus selected as new College of Social Work dean

Florida State University has named three-time alumnus David W. Springer as dean of the College of Social Work following a national search. Springer has served as director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service and university distinguished teaching professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs since 2014. Read more ...

Three-peat: FSU’s student body president elected to lead Florida Student Association for third year in a row

For the third consecutive year, the president of Florida State University’s Student Government Association was elected to serve as chair of the Florida Student Association (FSA). Jack Hitchcock took his post as SGA president in April and was elected chair of the FSA last month. Read more ...

Social Work faculty elected as a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine

Amy Ai, a distinguished research professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been selected as a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, which emphasizes collaborations among behavioral, psychosocial and biomedical scientists. Read more ...

Axions whisper, but can you hear them? FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers think so

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are working with scientists from the Axion Dark Matter Experiment team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a U.S. Department of Energy project to develop particle detectors that are sensitive enough to find axions, hypothetical elementary particles that may be responsible for some or all dark matter in the universe. Read more ...

FSU program invests in projects to help faculty bring research to market

Research to improve the detection of Salmonella and to speed up the development of new medicines received funding from an FSU program that supports faculty moving their work from the lab to the marketplace. Read more ....

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