The new Florida State University Innovation Hub was alive with the spirit of invention during the annual DIGITECH event April 11.

“DIGITECH is one example of the potential of what the Innovation Hub has to offer,” said Provost Sally McRorie. “Congratulations to all the DIGITECH exhibitors for the amazing innovations. You all have bright futures ahead of you.”

Florida A&M University students traveled to the Dominican Republic this summer as part of their Service Learning in International Agriculture course.

According to FAMU Forward, the College of Agriculture and Food Science students are Rachel Fernandez, a junior animal science student, Johnesha Jackson, a junior animal science student, Greg McNealy, an agribusiness graduate student, Halimah Wynn, a junior agronomy student, and Jorge Del’Angel, a junior biological engineering systems student.

When it comes to incidents of stroke and the impact it can have on lives, the numbers are sobering.

Someone has a stroke every 40 seconds. Every four minutes, someone dies of stroke, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In perhaps the largest single admittance in recent history, seven FAMU-FSU Engineering students were accepted into the prestigious FSU Garnet & Gold Scholar Society at the end of the Spring 2018 term. The students were inducted into the honor society during a special ceremony Thursday, April 26. 

The laboratory of Prof. Rufina Alamo is working with crystalline polymers that are models to understand the growth of lamellae-like polymer crystals. These novel polymers are characterized by the extreme precision in their chemical structure. Most have a simple methylene repeated backbone and have a different unit inserted at a precise equal distance along the polyethylene-like backbone.

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is is steadily moving up the ranks in the publication’s newest report

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, the nation’s only joint engineering college shared between two institutions—Florida A&M and Florida State universities—gained seven points in the annual graduate and professional programs rankings by U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 edition of “Best Graduate Schools.”

A record number of Florida State University faculty members have received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award this year for researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Five Florida State University assistant professors have received the award that carries funding for their lab as well as the opportunity to work closely with the NSF in refining the direction of their research.

Three teams led by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty members received specialized funding from Florida State University as they work to translate their innovative research into successful commercial products.

The researchers were awarded critical financial support following their successful presentations at FSU’s biannual GAP competition, a panel event organized by the FSU Office of the Vice President for Research where entrants pitched their novel ideas to a committee of state and local businesspeople.

Dr. Daniel Hallinan, an assistant professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award of over $550,000 from the National Science Foundation for his team’s work in polymers. The award will be distributed as a continuing grant over a five-year period.

Hallinan’s research involves the dynamics of polymer materials that have nanostructure. Nanostructure means a structure that has dimensions on a scale that is hundreds of times smaller than the width of a human hair. Structures at this scale have new properties due to their nanostructure.