Suzanne Sinke, associate professor of History, is currently working on a Fulbright in Austria. Recently, she was featured in a local Salzburg newspaper. Please see the attachment below for the article in German. Below her picture, the caption reads, "The academic climate in Austria trains students better for thoughtful reflection -- it demands careful listening, no switching to Facebook, no entertainment.  At the end of a class the students applaud by knocking their fists on their desks politely.  Just as some of my colleagues here admire elements of my lecturing style, I admire a system that demands concentration and substance."

Bahram Arjmandi, Margaret A. Sitton Professor and Chair NFES, has won the Abbott Nutrition Award in Women's Health awarded by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Composition, has been named as a 2014 Honorary Member of the Society for American Music (SAM). 

Judy Tsou, president of SAM, made the following statement:

"I am pleased to announce that composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has accepted our invitation to be the next Honorary Member of SAM. As most of you know, Ms. Zwilich is a much-honored composer, being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music with her Symphony No. 1 in 1983. Since then she has been awarded the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Critics Award, the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and many other awards. New Grove Online calls her 'one of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers.' We are privileged that Ms. Zwilich will accept the Honorary Membership in person at the Society’s next conference in March, 2014 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and an exact date and time for the Ceremony will be announced at a later date."

Betsy Becker, Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professor of Educational Statistics and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, has been elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

For more information, please view the YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Buf4c1c6g. The College of Education has also posted an article about this prestigious achievement.

Bryan J. Cuevas, John F. Priest Professor of Religion, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Please see the related article posted on the website of the College of Arts & Sciences.

Robert Olen Butler, professor of Creative Writing, has been awarded the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He is the 17th recipient of this award, following William Styron, Alice  McDermott, John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Ernest J. Gaines, John Updike, Edward Albee, Grace Paley, Pat Conroy, Jane Smiley, William Kennedy, Elmore "Dutch" Leonard,  Julia Alvarez, and Maxine Hong Kingston.  The award will be announced May 7 at the preview of the new movie on The Great Gatsby.

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, has received the Doris Duke Artist Award. According to the official website, "The Doris Duke Artist Awards invest in exemplary individual artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and related interdisciplinary work who have proven their artistic vitality and commitment to their field."

Ms. Zollar had the following to say about this distinct honor: "I am just sitting in happiness today.  I am so appreciative that I get to live these two wonderful lives in Tallahassee and Brooklyn.  My love for teaching and mentoring and the space that is made at FSU for me to continue my full creative life is a situation for which I have deep gratitude.  The School of Dance is a very special place filled with amazing and accomplished artists.  Our student body is talented and smart.  The students and my colleagues at FSU continue to feed me and inspire me.  I feel so lucky!"

For more information, please see the announcement by the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance.

Emmanuel Collins, John H. Seely Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Please see the attached letter for the announcement.

Matthew Goff, associate professor of Religion, has been awarded a Humboldt fellowship in order to research the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He will be acting as a visiting professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University under the sponsorship of Loren Stuckenbruck in the department of Protestant Theology. 

Kevin Beaver, associate professor of Criminology, has been named as a "Highly Cited Researcher" by Thomson Rueters. For more information on this prestigious honor, please read the following article: "Thomson Reuters Resurrects the Publication of Its Most Highly Cited Researchers with Updated Methodology."