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World Affairs Program ranks sixth among collegiate Model United Nations Teams in North America
May 26, 2022
Florida State’s World Affairs Program (WAP) has ranked sixth among collegiate Model United Nations teams in North America, ending its first fully in-person conference season since the beginning of the pandemic. This year, 36 delegates from WAP traveled to compete in conferences across the nation. As a team, WAP brought home six delegation awards: Best […]
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COSSPP Student Spotlight: Sunshine Jacobs
May 20, 2022
Sunshine Jacobs, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in sociology with a special focus on demography, was one of six teaching assistants at Florida State University to receive a 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for her incredible work in the classroom. “When I first started teaching undergraduates about race through a sociological lens, I was skeptical that […]
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FSU Alum named Forbes’ top 50 Most Entrepreneurial CMOs
May 17, 2022
FSU alum Geoff Cottrill has made Forbes Magazine’s inaugural list of 50 of The Most Entrepreneurial CMOs in Marketing Today. This list recognizes 50 marketing chiefs “whose entrepreneurial spirit and actions are helping transform not only their brands but marketing, commerce and, often times, culture itself.” Cottrill is the chief marketing officer at Topgolf Entertainment […]
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Garnet & Gold Scholar Society Inducts 28 COSSPP Students
May 10, 2022
BY: MELISSA POWELL, FSU CAREER CENTER, COSSPP COMMUNICATIONS TEAM Florida State University welcomes 129 new inductees into its prestigious Garnet & Gold Scholar Society this spring. Of those inducted, 28 students had at least one major in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy. Established in 2010, the Garnet & Gold Scholar Society facilitates student […]
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FSU researchers use AI to prompt older adults’ participation in research
May 10, 2022
BY: MARK BLACKWELL THOMAS, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS In a new study, Florida State University researchers explore the challenges of recruiting and retaining older adults to participate in research. The study also marks the first step of a broad, interdisciplinary FSU effort to increasingly use artificial intelligence in research. In the study, published in The Gerontologist, Associate Professor of Sociology Dawn […]
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FSU sociology professor named director of FSU’s Claude Pepper Center
May 9, 2022
The Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University has a new director. Dawn C. Carr, a professor in Florida State University’s Sociology Department and faculty associate for the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will now oversee the center, which has one of FSU’s largest endowments. The Pepper Center at FSU promotes the late […]
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Student leader and recent FSU graduate receives scholarship from NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
May 6, 2022
BY: ALICE MAXWELL, DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS Nastassia “Tazzy” Janvier, former president of the Florida State University Student Government Association, has been selected to join a prestigious program committed to providing civil rights legal advocacy in the South. Janvier will join an elite 10-person cohort of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP), a pipeline program of the NAACP Legal Defense […]
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COSSPP PhD Graduates Celebrated at College Hooding Ceremony
May 2, 2022
On Friday, April 29, the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy celebrated students graduating with doctoral degrees. Graduates, faculty advisors, family and friends, heard a welcome message from Dean Tim Chapin recognizing the significance of this accomplishment, followed by remarks from Dr. Irene Padavic, COSSPP faculty & distinguished speaker titled, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: […]