THE BIG STORY

NEWS & MORE FROM YOUR PREEMINENT UNIVERSITY

•  SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 •

FSU leaps ahead in national rankings

Florida State University moved up five places in the U.S. News & World Report rankings to No. 38 among all public national universities. FSU had the greatest gain of all of the Top 50 public universities. The rankings appear in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2017” guidebook. Read more ...

FSU graduate student receives $120K grant to study health policy

Florida State University doctoral student Patrice Williams has been awarded a $120,000 grant through a new program trying to diversify the future generation of health policy development leaders. Read more ...

Do you think cancer-fighting drugs are important? How about expanding our understanding of the universe? What about finding ways to help the victims of human trafficking? These and many other critical societal issues are being studied by Florida State University researchers every day. Let’s take a quick peek at 10 of the ways FSU is improving our lives and our world. Read more ...

Sept. 21: AVoice4Peace Concert

The College of Music's Kevin Fenton will be conducting the most meaningful concert of his career Wednesday, Sept. 21 — the United Nations General Assembly’s International Day of Peace — in Nairobi, Kenya. The concert — the marquee event of the AVoice4Peace worldwide peace awareness project —  will be streamed live across the globe at 12:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Sept. 21, at http://avoice4peace.org/watch-live/.

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