Dr. Alan Spector, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, has received the 2014 Hoebel Prize for Creativity from the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. According to the SSIB website, "This Prize is intended to honor a SSIB member, at any stage of their career, for an exceptional level of creativity and excellence in his or her research on ingestive behavior. This research should constitute a significant advance in our understanding of mechanisms controlling ingestive behavior and have the potential of benefiting society by elucidating methods for treating or preventing disorders of ingestive behavior."

Dr. Carlos Bolaños has been appointed Chair of the 2015 Minority Task Force of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr. Bolaños is also currently serving on the Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning and Ethology Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Debra Fadool is the current (2014-2015) President of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences.

Full STEAM Ahead! STEM and the Arts at FSU

The Fall 2014 FSU Faculty Luncheon Series will focus on the importance of STEAM — STEM and the Arts — at Florida State University, with distinguished speakers reflecting on the connections between art and science in each of their respective programs and research areas:

Tuesday, September 9
Jayne Standley, Ella Scoble Opperman and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy
Music Therapy Applied Clinical Research in Medical Treatment: A Fusion of STEM and the Arts

Katie McCormick, Associate Dean of Libraries for Special Collections & Archives, has been selected to attend the 2014 Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians. The week long institute, from July 28-Aug. 1st, focuses on key issues of leadership in higher education  and applies them to the practical challenges of leading and managing contemporary academic libraries. 

Ms. McCormick is delighted to have been chosen to attend and looks forward to learning from colleagues from around the country and the world. Of the Institute, McCormick says, “This is a unique opportunity to focus on core challenges of leadership and to have time to examine my own role and  effectiveness in helping FSU Libraries to continue to improve and to be seen as a national leader on many fronts. A strong, progressive library is at the heart of a top ranked university. I hope to bring back new, applicable perspectives to FSU and to have a chance to talk with colleagues from around the world about the fantastic work that is already occurring here.”

In July 2014, Jayne M. Standley, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy, was awarded the first ever Global Research Award in Music Therapy. The World Federation recognized her at its 2014 Congress in Vienna for over 20 years of research that created the global specialization of music therapy with premature infants and for the invention of the PAL, an FDA approved device to teach feeding skills to premature infants which is licensed to Powers Device Technologies Inc. The World Federation of Music Therapy is the only world-wide organization for the field, meets every 3 years, and will continue recognizing outstanding research impact at its future congresses.

Tarez Samra Graban, assistant professor of English, and her co-authors have received the WPA 2013 Best Book Award for GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century (Parlor Press, 2011). According to the Council of Writing Program Administrators, "This award recognizes books whose authors or editors have made an outstanding contribution to the field of writing program administration over the past two calendar years." This book was co-authored with Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley.

According to Dr. Graban, "GenAdmin talks theoretically about the history and nature of writing program administration, with the goal of dispelling some of the negative and negating narratives surrounding the field. Rather than understand writing program administration as simply a job we have to do that emerges from difficult situations by victimized faculty, Graban and her co-authors rewrote what they saw as an intellectual history of the field based on their own preparation as theorists, historians, and practitioners while in graduate school. Ultimately they began to see this work as socially and politically contextualized given writing programs' place as hubs of intellectual activity since the American University has evolved. The book presents a generational moment in rhetoric and writing studies that shows how it is possible--and necessary--to redefine the field based on creative dissensus when larger questions about the university are still unresolved. Graban and her co-authors wanted their book to present the 'writing program administrator' not just as a role, but as a philosophy to take into other parts of the university."

Jonathan Clark, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received an NSF Career Award for his work in robotics. For more information, please visit http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSU-News/Robotics-engineer-wins-NSF-Career-Award.

Maura Scott, assistant professor of Marketing, has received the American Marketing Association's 2014 Marketing and Society Emerging Scholar Award. According to the AMA website, "This award recognizes contributions to research advancing the study of Marketing and Society issues, and will be given annually to honor the contributions of a researcher in the earlier stages of his or academic career."

Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communication Librarian, has been selected as a Visiting Scholar by Columbia University Libraries. He will be working with the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) to explore their digital scholarship support and services. According to Mr. Vandegrift, "I will also be meeting and connecting with scholars and affiliated staff members around the University and the greater New York digital humanities community. CDRS is a leader in digital scholarship, and my hope is by spending time there working closely with the director Rebecca Kennison, and Production Manager Mark Newton, I will gain knowledge and experience that will be formative in Florida State University Libraries expansion in this area."

Mr. Vandegrift will be recording his experiences through his blog, located at micahvandegrift.wordpress.com. He will also be posting to his Twitter account, available at https://twitter.com/micahvandegrift.

Dear Colleagues,

Please distribute the announcement below to interested faculty and students! Many thanks!

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Ms. Uschi Niethammer, representative of the German Academic Exchange Service, is visiting the FSU campus in Tallahassee this Thursday, April 17. The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD), the largest funding organization in the world, offers scholarships and funding in all academic fields and at all levels of higher education: https://www.daad.org/.  Knowledge of German is not a condition for applying. Ms. Niethammer will inform the FSU community about funding opportunities through the DAAD. She will offer two public information sessions. For more information, please contact Peggy Wright-Cleveland (Office of Faculty Recognition, mwrightcleveland@admin.fsu.edu).

Schedule:

When: Thursday, April 17 2014
Where: Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House [HSF]
http://our.fsu.edu/News/Honors-Scholars-and-Fellows-House

Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House (HSF), room 3009
3:00 – 4:00 pm Public Presentation on DAAD programs that support research by faculty and advanced graduate students.
4:30 – 5:30 pm Public Presentation on DAAD programs that support student scholarship by undergraduates and early career graduate students.

The visit is organized by the Office of Faculty Recognition, the Office of National Fellowships, and The Graduate School. Please distribute this information to interested faculty, postdoctoral faculty, and students.