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WHAT'S NEWS

 

Dr. Debra Fadool has received Albion College's Distinguished Alumni Award for 2007. Debi received this award at Albion College's Awards Ceremony during their Homecoming Weekend.

 

Dr. Tom Keller has won a Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. The award recognizes graduate faculty for excellence in graduate education and mentoring.

 

Biological Science faculty members Dr. Debbi Fadool and Dr. Greg Erickson win Developing Scholar Award
  • Dr. Debbi Fadool's faculty home page.
  • Dr. Greg Erickson's faculty home page.
  • Read about the Developing Scholar Award at the FSU Office of Research DSA home page.

 

Dr. Walter R. Tschinkel, Professor in the Department of Biological Science, has been awarded the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award for 2007/2008.

 

Assistant Professor Wu-Min Deng and doctoral student John S. Poulton have uncovered a specific genetic and molecular mechanism that causes cell polarity - the asymmetric shape or composition critical to a cell's proper functioning.

 

Using bone growth line counts Dr. Greg Erickson ages dinosaurs and establishes the age structure of dinosaur populations.

 

New three-dimensional images of the AIDS virus created by professor Kenneth Roux, research associate Ping Zhu, and their colleagues make world news.
  • More about this in the FSU News
  • View the full online publication in Nature

 

Three awarded at TriBeta National Honor Society Convention.
  • The First Place Johnson Award in Molecular and Cell Biology was awarded to Wildaliz Nieves.
  • The Second Place Johnson Award in Ecology was awarded to Lawren VandeVrede.
  • The Third Place Brooks Award in Molecular and Cell Biology was awarded to Shari Campbell.
* Johnson Awards are for posters and the Brooks Award is for oral presentations

 

Dr. Walter R. Tschinkel's new book nominated for a Pulitzer Prize

 

Dr. Gregory M. Erickson helps an international team of scientists identify a new tyrannosauroid dinosaur.

 

Dr. Hengli Tang and doctoral student Heather Nelson have their research paper published in the Journal of Virology.

 

Nineteen from Biology are nominees for the FSU Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
  • To view the complete list click here

 

 



What's News
Dr. Debra Fadool has received Albion College's Distinguished Alumni Award for 2007. Debi received this award at Albion College's Awards Ceremony during their Homecoming Weekend.
Dr. Walter R. Tschinkel, Professor in the Department of Biological Science, has been awarded the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award for 2007/2008.
 
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